(Closed) Octeuril Catch All

[mirshikar]

Who: Asura + Plotted CR
When: Octeuril
Where: Various locations in Aefenglom and the Wilde.
What: Quests, event threads, domestic undertakings, and general gallivanting about.
Warnings: None yet!

Feel free to drop me a line @ the October CR and Plotting Post if you're interested in threading and would like to work out details for a starter. DM works just as well, too! o9

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[mirshikar]

Newt, then. There's nothing for you to be sorry about, though I find myself wishing that we'd been acquainted before the dignitary mission to Dorchacht.

[ Unfortunately for Newt, Asura's exactly the sort of person to make others feel noticed—when he speaks to someone, they've got the whole of his attention, and the weight of his gaze is a heavy thing, pervasive and somehow keenly knowing. Though the other Mirrorbound does not speak to their experiences in Dorchacht, having spent the entirety of the past month in that foggy city himself, Asura can hazard a guess at what Newt experienced. Travelled, Newt had said, and that means he'd been on the last boat out—pity that, at that time, Asura had been confined to the medic's cabin, recuperating after placing himself in the thick of a building collapse.

T h a t had been one hell of an experience, but holding the path open for captive Monsters to escape had been well worth the injury (despite the face Sokie had made upon trying to heal the worst of the damage away). ]

If you travelled alongside the people here, then you helped them. Fought for them. [ And that is the truth as Asura sees it. ] And though I stood by others during that time, I will always regret missing the chance to fight alongside your or any comrade. That night when the flames of the Resistance overtook the Black City was pivotal for change.

[ Even if the thought that slipping out of a city after setting it aflame amounted to little more than negligence lingers with him still. Would that Asura been able, he'd have chosen to stay in Dorchacht instead of returning to the (relative) safety of Aefenglom's shores, but... He'd been Oathbound and injured, and perhaps what the Resistance needs most now is the promise of external support. ]

But you are here, now, and you have labored as hard as anyone else. [ No different from the others working to restore the homes along the Bright Wall, or from Asura himself. ] Take a seat, or I might just take insult.

[ Though the playful glint to Asura's eyes suggests he'd take no true insult at all as he motions, again, to the still-empty seat beside him.

His voice is lilting and deep (a tease?), when he speaks next: ] You wouldn't want to offend a King, after all.

[newtralize]

[OOC: Sorry for such a late reply! I have been abroad for work for the last 4 weeks and I'm slowly catching up on everything. You are not obligated by any means to reply back since it has been awhile. I apologize for dropping the ball! I thought I'd have time to tag but didn't.]

[Newt offers a small smile.] Well, we're acquainted now. I wasn't part of the group who had gone as dignitaries though, so I also can't say we may have interacted even then. [Newt had been whisked to Dorchacht by the teleporter, so they may not have spoken much even then. It had happened quite suddenly after all.]

I just, well, I can't say that I'm particularly approving of how they do things in Dorchact. The conditions were far from ideal and I don't agree that these people are lesser than. [Newt's views had always been progressive for his time. He felt the same way about Muggles to Witches and he had always found that people were ignorant of the creatures that they shared the world with.] My only wish was that things could have been solved in a less chaotic way. [Because the city falling into a panic was certainly not the way he would have wanted things to go. There were so many innocent people at risk after all.

And he can't help but wonder how the state of the city was at the moment. What the city had stood on for so long had basically crumbled within a night. Even he understood that there was just as many hardships Dorchact now faced as the refugees were facing back in Aefenglom.]

It would be a disservice to bring so many here and then leave them to their fate. [And he certainly wasn't going to that. Incapable of doing so.

Though he balks a bit and quickly takes a seat. Newt wasn't very good at taking social cues, so it's likely the other might be taking Asura at face value.] I- I didn't realize- I do apologize. It wasn't my intention to insult.