middaeg | Intro Overflow: May

Ah, so you're in the same "boat" as myself.

[He acknowledges briefly awhile doing his best to keep his gaze away from her wounded hand. The faint coppery scent of blood tempts him terribly but Augustine is strong. Instead of focusing on the scent, he focuses on those bright hazel eyes and the beauty of life that gleams within them. It would be a crying shame to see such lovely eyes close shut, so Augustine forces himself not think of blood.]

You don't trust them? [He arches his brow a little.] Neither do I but I certainly wouldn't turn down their aid right now.

[Even though he's not very trusting of the Coven either. They're quite different than the witches of Gwydion.]

We don't have that sort of luxury, dear.

I know.

[Her tone is resigned but tense. Justine knows that she has to eat but she'll struggle against this new world for as long as she can. She's fought so hard to live her life this long and even as the madness takes hold, she won't let herself give up on life. She wants to live.

Justine's fingers gently brush a tendril of dark hair behind her ear as she continues in the same soft sweet tone.] I'm used to it. [Having limited choices.] But,

As long as I struggle a little bit. I won't forget. This world took me away from my home. My future. [Death.] I don't want to forgive it for that. [Even if she is able to live here and have a future. She'll always know that someone she cared about died to give it to her.]

...I can most certainly relate. [He finally comments after a moment of heavy silence.] I have no idea what waits ahead for me but I certainly don't plan on being complicit.

[Augustine says with a measure of determination that could be taken for arrogance. He needs to return. Somehow, someway, Augustine knows he needs to return. His friends are waiting for him and that awful mage must be defeated by his hands alone. He dreads the worse for Asuka and Saya, especially with a madman like Elatus on the prowl. The Sixth Mage is his to kill, especially not after what Elatus did.

His wounds serve as a dark reminder of what that bastard did.]

This world seems to hold many secrets but I refused to resign to my fate here.

[He let's out a tense sigh.]

I know complicity comes easy for some but I cannot afford it. [He peeks over at her again, his inhuman gaze focused upon her eyes.] The same for you, isn't?

If so, then...maybe we ought to help each other.

[Justine chances a glance at the elegant stranger, her expression hesitant as her lips gently part. She doesn't know what to say or how to articulate what she's feeling. Her head is buzzing with too many thoughts and there is nothing to help hold them back.]

What if... what if there was something in this world, a dream, that you'd given up on but you have to return home.

[She meets his gaze for the fraction of a second before looking away again. Justine tries to avoid eye contact for as much as she can.] What would you do?

[It's a seemingly theoretical question except that it isn't. Justine feels as if she'd been stolen away from her future, her death and everything that her life had been coming too but then she appeared here. She can have a life here but then Thomas will die...

She can't return home now and it's making her hesitate in everything that she does.]

I don't know if I can be much help to you.

[Justine doesn't consider herself useful. Perhaps if sex is involved but she has a feeling that this man is talking about something else entirely.]

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