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 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:10 pm
"I'll let her know." Nodding, glad that he could do that, he didn't think it a good idea if she found out from the Queen before her own brother or his fiance. It would, he figured, be in poor taste if she didn't find out from him on behalf of his fiance. It was also jsut better, in his opinion, to hear potentially bad news from a family member.
Leaning into his partner he summoned his burner phone and took a moment before sending a message to Remarque, he did keep the others number on his normal cell phone as well as his burner phone. "I hope he can meet us here...but he does have work." So he wasn't sure he could do that, civilian life was important and he knew it, it wouldn't do to focus just on this war and then when it was over...have nothing.
"You should get your notebook and pen out, just incase." Pocketing his phone, just incase he got a message back, Melpomene kept at his partners side as he kept an eye out for anything they should take note of. Nothing though, at least not yet, and he wasn't sure what he thought about it. He was both relieved but also it caused his nerves to mount. "Dinner tonight...do you want to stay in and cook? We can pick something when we get back, do any shopping we need, and then cook tonight?" Needing to talk to calm his nerves, because with nothing happening yet all he needed was something to happen and it would be like a jump scare in a movie. He did not like the suspense...he worked better with actual action.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:58 pm
Reaching up behind himself, to trail his fingers over Melpomene's cheek as they leaned into him, he could tell they were getting nervous again. It wasn't as worrisome here for him, not like it was in the Rift at times. He didn't think wraiths tried to go to starseeds or attack with the same veracity that some youma did.
At the mention of his notebook, he pulled it from his breast pocket where it always remained. Even before the storm he'd kept it on his person physically to have quicker access to it. "Got it, everything is alright darling." Even if it wasn't, it wouldn't be good for them to be so tense.
"I can make us lasagna tonight, we can spend the whole day cooking after our meeting. Something nice and quiet then a bath to relax afterwards?" Leaning back into them for a moment, he paused as something caught his attention out the corner of his eye.
The hall of mirrors was close, but something seemed off, much as they said. A wraith was hovering over a shard of a mirror, and as they walked forward, he saw a small swarm of them surrounding a large one.
"I see what you mean. That is... rather odd." They didn't seem to pay him any mind at first, as he closed in and saw a planet reflected on the mirror's surface. It wasn't Earth, that much was clear, but something drew him to it and he couldn't quite place what it was. It didn't seem like any of the places he'd caught a ride with a knight to, but it still seemed familiar.
Reaching out carefully, he focused on the blue planet before the mirror started to crackle. It seemed to call to him slightly as he tried to puzzle out why it looked familiar. It had that same feeling, much like the mural, but he couldn't grasp the energy, not here. It was so far off, like the energy itself was tauntingly out of reach as the mirror started to crack. "Melpomene... what is that?" Questioning with a bit of anxiety in his voice as he watched the cracks forming on the mirror's surface.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 6:11 pm
"That sounds good, I'll make garlic bread and we can bring my father in to help. We'll make it a family dinner." He did, for a moment, consider inviting Melody as well but he wasn't entierly certain how that would go. She would likely be pleasent, and on her best, with his father there but did he want to risk tension in the air? Though maybe not, maybe he didn't need to worry. "We can have Melody as well." He could talk to her after dinner, before a bath, after his father left for his smaller home on the property. Liam was, and always would be, greatful that Aloysius let his father live in the old gardeners house once the man had retired and his father had moved here from Italy. It was a good way to keep his father close, so they could work on bonding as a father and son.
Stopping behind Chalcanthite he nodded his head. "It is...and I worry they might not like being moved from it...I've never seen one lash out. I've also never seen anything like this, so anything is possible." And he didn't want to test things and find out the hard way.
Stepping closer to look, moving his head a bit to see around a crack, he took a moment before answering. "If I remember my science books right..Neptune? Maybe, it could be some other planet not from this solar system. But the color looks about right..." And he was moving to try and pull the other away from the mirror, sure that it would shatter, it looked close to giving way just as the one earlier had done. "Get away from the mirror." Stepping back even more, trying to get the general away as well, but they seemed rather occupied with what the mirror was displaying for them.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 6:24 pm
"Perfect, it sounds wonderful and like something we both need." But then they brought up Melody, giving him pause, before he nodded again. "Yes, her too and then we can let her know what to expect."
Watching the wraiths press in closer to him and to the mirror, he found it hard to look away even as they mentioned the planet. "Neptune..." Echoing their words, he was curious about it, seeing a planet without using a telescope. But as they tugged him, he was ripped away as the mirror audibly cracked and shattered with great force. Pulling his hands up to cover his face, he felt bits of glass cutting at his skin as he stumbled back into his fiancé.
"s**t s**t s**t." He kept his eyes closed tightly, hoping no glass had gotten in them as he turned into them. He could feel the cuts on his hands already and they stung wherever he'd been nicked but he didn't want to look. Something warm was dripping down his left pinkie and he already knew what it was but he wasn't about to look as he took shaky breaths from how startling that had just been. He could feel bits on his face, stuck in his bangs that framed his face as well, but he didn't dare touch anything just yet.
"Help..." He whispered as he pulled his hands down and shook them down towards the ground, trying to loosen any stray shards from his skin and uniform. Still, he was afraid to open his eyes as he stood there and hoped they would get what he needed them to check for him.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:29 pm
Shocked by the shudden shattering of the mirror, and just hwo impressive it had been, Melpomene was quick to move in and tend to his partner. Ignoring when glass cutg him as he moved fragments and pieces from chestnut brown hair. Knocking some bits from his uniform, with the back of his hands, he felt the little cuts forming here and there and even shook a piece from his own finger. There was some blood, as to be expected, but he was quick to work on his partner. "Should we head home?" He didn't want to but it really was the best idea, he wasn't sure if Lorcan should be called, but it didn't seem bad...just cuts that would need a good cleaning and bandaging.
A few more bits and pieces were removed from Chalcanthite's face and hair before hs nodded once. "You're good, you're safe. Just tell me what to do love." He was worried and holding the other, glass crunching under his heels.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:40 pm
With a slow nod after they brushed him down, he carefully opened his eyes again. The last thing he needed was glass in his eyes or damaging his contacts. It took him more than a moment to say anything though because he had a lot to think on now.
After a moment he exhaled and slumped into them slightly. "We should talk with Remarque first before we check your realm. If there are any more mirrors that pop up in there, I would rather not get another face full of glass." Reaching up a bit, he thumbed a few stuck shards of glass from their blonde hair before looking back at the swarm of wraiths that siphoned off what was left before moving away and down the endless hallways.
"Home and shower, I want to make sure we are okay darling." He didn't like this, not one bit, but even more so now that it had decided to blow up in his and his fiance's face. They needed to find out if this was mirror space having a fit or something more directly related to the storm. He just didn't like the idea that it could cross into this space as it had.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:13 pm
"I'm glad you want to do that as well, I didn't expect this to happen but I'm also not so surprised." he'd honestly expected a wraith to get upset, by them being near a mirror, and attacking somehow. He'd never seen it, didn't know if it was possible, but that didn't mean his mind didn't go there with that.
"I sent him a text so we can head back and I'll see about getting in touch with him and setting up a time and letting him know what happened." Because it was best if their prince knew what was going on.
"Shower to clean the injuries, bandage things up, then we work on dinner while I reach out to Remarque." And grocery store if they needed it, they'd manage to fit it in, he'd also get in touch with Melody and his father. They could fill Melody in after his father returned to his home after dinner. He was trying to bring his father as much into his life as he could, the man more than deserved it, he had no other children. He was hoping his father might find someone in Destiny City...he deserved happiness and he knew his father would make someone happy. Plus, weren't Europeans considered hot anyway? An Italian accent, speaks Italian, and can cook. He was sure his father was some sort of package deal most single women would want.
"Come on love." Taking his fiances hand and leading him back the way they'd come. "I don't want to stay here and tempt things further."
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