Aereuer Showers

[arturiarex]

Who: Saber, Various
When: Throughout the month of Aereuer
Where: The City, the outskirts, the wild, etc.
What: Catch-all
Warnings: None (yet)

[ooc: catch-all! If you'd like to plot something, drop me a line via PM or dragoon1940

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[arturiarex]

"I know very few people and yet... it still seems like I've met nobility disproportionately," she muses, half to herself. She glances at him again, pausing to consider the question he poses to her. It's an interesting one and she has to think back on her time in Camelot. Her brow furrows slightly.

"...I think it was. Most of those I interacted with were my knights. They were my confidants and closest advisers. I can't say that I had others outside of them who I placed as much trust in."

She shakes her head.

"Perhaps I should have tried to reach beyond that."

[boarddyd]

The structure of Saber's kingdom sounds similar to his own - though Dimitri reminds himself to take care not to project Faerghus onto some foreign land. He wants to learn about her home organically, and know it for the place it is.

Not some mirror of his own.

"That's easier said than done, though... I do believe it's a worthwhile endeavor.

We have the opportunity to reach out to anyone here, though." A small smile follows - Dimitri has been enjoying the relative freedom that not being set to run a country has allowed him.

"Or, become anything we want, for that matter." He looks up, but the sky is dim and obscured by wild branches and still leaves.

"Do you have something in mind? Something you'd like to do here, or...?" Someone she'd like to become.

[arturiarex]

The thought is a good one to have and she sees in him some spark of hope and youthful exuberance that she had when she was younger, when she took the sword from the stone. She closes her eyes for a moment, pushes back the memories.

"No. I don't," she replies frankly, "I arrived here intending only to serve and now I do not know what I will become."

She frowns.

"I do not enjoy being unsure, but I have found that the pillars upon which I once rested are no longer stable. I cannot rely on them any longer. So I must change... somehow."

[boarddyd]

To serve...?

Dimitri regards the response with a quizzical tilt of his head. Somehow, he'd expected someone so confident as Saber to be chasing a sure future. He only nods, at first, suddenly aware of the sound his boots make on the worn ground and the silence between them.

"I'll admit... being here, I can't accomplish my dearest goal. It feels wrong to change, or to give up, but I do not want my time in this place to be meaningless.

Ah. I'm sorry." He's rambled. "What I mean to say is that even if you are unsure about your future, the person you are now is someone quite admirable.

Venturing into the Wilde is no small task." It's a poor attempt at consoling her, he knows, earnest intent be damned. After speaking he looks away once again, to scan the forest thickening around them (to spare himself further embarrassment by his own hand).

[arturiarex]

She was chasing a future when she arrived, but not her future. In a way she's still trying to find her way back to chasing the future she used to dream of. It's just taking her a little time.

"I thank you for the compliment," Saber replies, giving him a glance and a nod, "And I, too, do not wish for this time to be meaningless. It is why I try to protect the people of the city that plays host to me. There is meaning in that,, if nothing else."

She offers him a little smile, something a bit tight-lipped and reserved.

"And if it is no small task, you are also worthy of admiration. Here you are."

u want them to fight something or do you want to wrap up? :D?

[boarddyd]

It's difficult to convey kindness through formality, but Dimitri is familiar with the struggle. Enough so that he understands her earnestness as well, and turns back to his companion with an apologetic, small smile.

"We'll do well to support each other, then - protecting this city is no small task." Hoping for each of the mirrorbound to work together in total harmony is simply too unrealistic, but Dimitri finds himself comforted knowing that Saber, at least, seems to share his outlook.

A few twigs snap to their right, and Dimitri turns quickly to the sound. A pair of small rodents tumble through the brush, locked in some sort of squabble with one another. It's nothing...

Is it Ok if we wrap and try for something new in May ?

[arturiarex]

They aren't that deep into the woods, after all. Odds are it is nothing, although Saber peers out into the undergrowth for a moment, sniffing the air, as if she's trying to scent something. Nothing comes to her and she relaxes after a moment with a low exhale, a sigh to punctuate the tension.

"...one can never be too cautious. We should probably stop our idle conversation, as much as I've enjoyed it. We will need our wits about us."

yes!!

[boarddyd]

"Yes, of course." Dimitri agrees immediately, voice hushed as he attempts to lean forward and survey the underbrush up ahead. If those rodents had been dangerous - or even simply infected - they would have taken them by surprise.

He appreciates Saber's practicality.

And speaks no more than necessary for the rest of the, thankfully uneventful, round.