awaitingalbion: (lodged in me useless)
awaitingalbion ([personal profile] awaitingalbion) wrote2010-06-12 11:01 pm

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Would anyone know where I could find a vacant house? [Merlin pauses, drumming his fingers against the journal's pages.] This apartment is getting a little cramped--[and the next bit sounds rather forced, as though someone had expressly ordered him to say it:] It's not really up to snuff for a King of Camelot and his royal household.

[Merlin adds further complaint beneath his breath.] And I could do with not sleeping on a sofa. I told Arthur those things were bad for my back--and then he has the nerve to wonder why the washing's not been done.

[After this important request is dispatched, Merlin will be in the library. Having ducked out of dish duty, he sneaks his way out of the building and across the village with record time. The meeting on sorcery has truly rekindled a desire to learn previously subdued by Arthur's mortal peril and Uther's arrival.

Well into the evening (and with a lighted candlestick instead of electric lights), Merlin is tearing down many books on magic that he can find from the shelves. He scans most, but often becomes distracted by some of the lengthier descriptions of varieties in magic different from what he has known at home.

Anyone who comes by to also lurk in the library this evening may walk in upon a few of the spells he tries out. This may involve a few pages accidentally burning, or the sudden growth of a lilac bush on an empty chair.]


{ooc - out of character, we're looking at house #40 so if someone could steer him in that direction, that would be great!}

[identity profile] gan-ceann.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Another nod.]

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[identity profile] thirdhost.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ emony perceives time in a different manner than most, given the long lives her people live - both the host bodies and the practically immortal lives the symbionts live. she's over two hundred years old. she doesn't see ten months as something that constitutes as a long time in regards to herself. ]

Do you miss it - your home?

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[identity profile] god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[...Oh, right, magic outlawed. That's so stupid]

Either way, the point stands.

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[identity profile] silviteadvocate.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Chained? That's.. so sad...

[identity profile] koko-ni-iru.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Fine, all things considered.

[Pause. He heard those complaints and tones.]

...Are you alright?

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
[The problem is that, unfortunately, Haruki is right. Unlike in Camelot, there is little reason to be so abundantly cautious about who sees what. But the nagging, clandestine feeling remains.]

Or--I could find one of those contraptions. [He has seen umbrellas out and around.] Like a bird's wing, stretched in a circle. With one of those, I wouldn't have to try and hold my jacket over Arthur's head, in the rain.

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it is. [Merlin had felt sympathy for the dragon--once, a while ago. That feeling was fast fleeting.]

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Of course--don't you?

[Dirty liar. He doesn't really miss Camelot all that much. Here, magic is accepted. And Fina is here. Destiny may await at home, but so long as Arthur is also here? Merlin is quite comfortable with taking a break.]

[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds rather inconvenient.

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[identity profile] silviteadvocate.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mean Merlin. It's not like that dragon will go on a rampage in the sea-- oh right. Very similar to Bluheim, after all. ]

Camelot must be safe with it apprehended like that.

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[identity profile] god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Umbrella.

[...Hmmm] But yeah, that might be a good idea if you need to bring that guy along for the ride. Or you could delay a day or two, this has to let up eventually, right?

[identity profile] gan-ceann.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[she shakes the phone a little.]
Edited 2010-06-15 16:54 (UTC)

[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps they can't.

[Hey. Illiteracy is common in his time.]

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
That would mean two more days of sleeping on the sofa. And being woken up by his majesty for any and all errands. I did not realize that things could be any worse than serving Arthur. [Pause.] I now have a new respect for the king's servants.

[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
M-me? I'm great. Never better. Just another day on the job, you know.

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well, sort of. Safe from him, perhaps. But not safe from Uther's tyranny.

[identity profile] gan-ceann.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[technically in hers too, but she doesn't remember that too clearly]
fourteen: (clasped → I'm the dreams we had)

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[personal profile] fourteen 2010-06-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I guess you could say that, but... I don't think there's a doctor that can help him. Sorry, Merlin. It -- it has something to do with the world we're from.

[ she sounds increasingly nervous, because, well -- the truth is very, very hard to admit, here. ]

[identity profile] koko-ni-iru.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I see. [Amused, he is.]

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[identity profile] silviteadvocate.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Uther?

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[identity profile] god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[...] Well duh, that's a king who shouldn't be king versus a prince who shouldn't be a prince who grows up to be the best king ever, that's no contest.

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If he manages to even live to be king.

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[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He's here. He's--ah, Fina. He's Arthur's father.

[identity profile] awaitingalbion.livejournal.com 2010-06-17 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I am looking for new quarters, though. I suppose that is a change.

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[identity profile] silviteadvocate.livejournal.com 2010-06-17 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
The King of Camelot is here...?

[ Apart of her feels inclined to bow all a sudden. ] I'm sorry Merlin, I didn't realize.

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