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[awaitingalbion]

[The sound of a throat-clearing cough.]

Can anyone tell me about a blue-haired girl who calls herself a soldier?

[But earlier this day--before he makes the voice post--Merlin is out picking up fresh ingredients for Arthur's evening meal. He is in the shop, picking through some vegetables. He looks...confused.]

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

[That pause? Is the sound of Arthur being impressed with you.]

So she could.

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

In fact--[and here is a rustle of pages and some noise of movement as Merlin (kind of creeped out by talking to Arthur over the journals, considering how obviously enchanted they are and how Arthur is just one room over) comes to find the prince.

He sets his journal down--closed.] I think someone else was warning about some kind of attack.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

[Oh good, Arthur can shut his weird book.]

Someone else knew beforehand?

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Maybe? [He shrugs.] Someone else was attacked, too. But I don't think it was by the same girl.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

Go on.

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

Before you were attacked, she had been attacked by someone who tore off one of her wings. Her name is Fina.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

Her wings... [He thinks it over before a somewhat startled expression comes over his face.] That should be fatal.

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

She...didn't look so great, no. But she won't reveal much about the attack.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

Even knowing that her silence could put others in danger?

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

[Sigh.] It sounded like she wanted to protect the attacker.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

Strange. [A pause.] When did this occur?

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

During the blizzard, I think? [He knows. But he plays this one gently.]

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

Even stranger. No one in their right mind would've gone out in that storm.

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

She would not tell me anything else, except that some man was working on the whole thing. She said he was an--[pause for Merlin to try so hard to remember things]--an officer? Whatever that is.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

His name?

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

She called him Mister Caine.

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

[He's quiet for a moment, mulling it over.]

A murder, an attempted one, and a sorceress stealing energy.

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[awaitingalbion.livejournal.com]

We may as well have never left. [He adds quietly, suggesting something on the usual danger level back home.]

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[regisquefuturi.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't disagree, though he doesn't respond.]