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undergrounds2016-02-20 12:45 pm
knightscode) wrote in undergrounds2016-02-20 12:45 pm
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MEMORIES [ ACTIVE / OPEN ]
i ) IGNORE THE SLANDER
It's been a complicated month for Lance. A complicated new year, really. Recovering from being in jail and having a doppelgänger is easier said than done. There had been apologies to write, and even then he had to work out who needed apologising to.
That, and his headaches had flourished into this odd ability to sense things. It would be far more useful, he thinks, if he knew what on earth it was that he could sense. Most of the time it just clued him in that something (or someone) was supernatural. Most of the time it just made his head hurt.
Still, he needed to learn to make use of it. The same as the magic the Night Council gave him, really, it was all things he was unpractised at. All new and peculiar. So it is that he decides to combine the two goals: he begins February by making his rounds. Redbright, the covens, people he knows. Generally apologising and then, on the off chance they know something, asking what they know about sensing magic. Can they sense it? What does it feel like to them? How do they tell it all apart?
When all else fails he sits and flicks through books in the library at Redbright, eyes glazing a little as he tries to take it all in.
ii ) DO YOU DRINK TEA
It's one of the more odd Night Council investigations that he's been a part of, but the more he thinks about it the more he wonders why he's surprised. It may sound like the plot of a children's tale, love potions, but children's stories about magic have to come from somewhere.
He's set up an investigation room in Westminster, trying to track where all the reports are coming from. See if there's some pattern to it all, something that might help them see an obvious target. At the moment, though, it appears relatively random. The act has a peculiarly prankish feel to it, however, so perhaps he is looking for something that doesn't exist. Perhaps there is no pattern, and it's simply a random act of childish 'fun'. Lancelot sighs, spends a few more hours leafing through reports before deciding to hit the streets to find help.
Someone must know something, have seen something, or have drunk some of the tea and kept some.
Although, of course, raising such a line of conversation is a little awkward.
iii ) I'VE GOT A BAD IDEA
Lancelot has been dwelling on this for a while, the problem of his missing memories. They've been unlocked in drips, usually by some less than comfortable encounter that chipped away at the block, but up until now he'd been content to leave it at that. After all, he could not be sure what these memories might reveal. What might be hidden from him. It may be nothing serious, may be nothing bad -- but equally it could be something he would rather had stayed forgotten.
Now, though, now things are different. With his magic slowly seeming to come to life he has the distant hope that... his memories might help him make sense of everything. That if he were to unlock them he might understand the world around them, and himself, a lot better.
So Lancelot goes looking -- for witches, vampires, fae. For situations that might trigger a memory, perhaps, or people who might know how to bring down the walls preventing him from remembering. He walks into trouble on the off chance something might happen. Nine times out of ten, nothing much does. Other than a fight breaking out and him ending up gaining a few bruises.
It's a bad idea. He knows it's a bad idea. Yet what's the worst that could happen?
He can think of plenty.
It's been a complicated month for Lance. A complicated new year, really. Recovering from being in jail and having a doppelgänger is easier said than done. There had been apologies to write, and even then he had to work out who needed apologising to.
That, and his headaches had flourished into this odd ability to sense things. It would be far more useful, he thinks, if he knew what on earth it was that he could sense. Most of the time it just clued him in that something (or someone) was supernatural. Most of the time it just made his head hurt.
Still, he needed to learn to make use of it. The same as the magic the Night Council gave him, really, it was all things he was unpractised at. All new and peculiar. So it is that he decides to combine the two goals: he begins February by making his rounds. Redbright, the covens, people he knows. Generally apologising and then, on the off chance they know something, asking what they know about sensing magic. Can they sense it? What does it feel like to them? How do they tell it all apart?
When all else fails he sits and flicks through books in the library at Redbright, eyes glazing a little as he tries to take it all in.
ii ) DO YOU DRINK TEA
It's one of the more odd Night Council investigations that he's been a part of, but the more he thinks about it the more he wonders why he's surprised. It may sound like the plot of a children's tale, love potions, but children's stories about magic have to come from somewhere.
He's set up an investigation room in Westminster, trying to track where all the reports are coming from. See if there's some pattern to it all, something that might help them see an obvious target. At the moment, though, it appears relatively random. The act has a peculiarly prankish feel to it, however, so perhaps he is looking for something that doesn't exist. Perhaps there is no pattern, and it's simply a random act of childish 'fun'. Lancelot sighs, spends a few more hours leafing through reports before deciding to hit the streets to find help.
Someone must know something, have seen something, or have drunk some of the tea and kept some.
Although, of course, raising such a line of conversation is a little awkward.
iii ) I'VE GOT A BAD IDEA
Lancelot has been dwelling on this for a while, the problem of his missing memories. They've been unlocked in drips, usually by some less than comfortable encounter that chipped away at the block, but up until now he'd been content to leave it at that. After all, he could not be sure what these memories might reveal. What might be hidden from him. It may be nothing serious, may be nothing bad -- but equally it could be something he would rather had stayed forgotten.
Now, though, now things are different. With his magic slowly seeming to come to life he has the distant hope that... his memories might help him make sense of everything. That if he were to unlock them he might understand the world around them, and himself, a lot better.
So Lancelot goes looking -- for witches, vampires, fae. For situations that might trigger a memory, perhaps, or people who might know how to bring down the walls preventing him from remembering. He walks into trouble on the off chance something might happen. Nine times out of ten, nothing much does. Other than a fight breaking out and him ending up gaining a few bruises.
It's a bad idea. He knows it's a bad idea. Yet what's the worst that could happen?
He can think of plenty.
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"So you're telling me a fae impersonating you flipped my skirt up a few weeks ago?" She relaxes a little, though she's remaining slightly suspicious. "I guess that makes sense-- you were behaving like you'd hit your head or something."
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"Forgive me, I really had no idea. The Night Council held me for a while to be sure it wasn't me, I've been a little out of touch. Please -- I promise you I would never do such a thing!"
Good lord, the thought of it is already making him feel quite embarrassed.
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"I know, it sounded weird when it happened, really, I promise. You said Lily didn't like the cold, and then bounced your eyebrows at me and asked how I was. ...It was bizarre."
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"But she's a Samoyed," he protests, as if somehow Elizabeth might need further convincing that this is nonsense. "They're Siberian sled dogs, I'm... quite sure she can handle a little British cold weather..."
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"...I got him square in the nose," she says with a wince. "I really hope that doesn't come back to bite me."
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"You punched a fae in the nose?" he repeats for clarification, and amusement is clear on his features now. "Forgive me for laughing, Elizabeth, but that... well, I suppose it takes less guts if you thought it was just me."
Calming finally Lancelot offers her a rueful grin, impressed despite everything.
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if she chose to share another story of sexual harassment with him, but given it didn't go so well on the boat..., but the bigger worry she has is that the fae hadn't found it as funny as Lancelot seemed to."Maybe... maybe he doesn't know who I am," she thinks with an internal wince. "If I could believe that, I'd feel a lot better about sleeping at night."
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"I wouldn't worry. The offending fae has been taken into custody awaiting charges, so you're safe for now. No cursing to be had. I am impressed, though!"
Although in truth he probably shouldn't be encouraging the punching of Guardians this was something of a self defence case, he thinks it's fine. Good, even! She should be encouraged to defend herself!