I Should Just Move a Bed Up Here

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:45 pm

"Something...something like that. It's just...old," he said, lamely.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:06 pm

"I'd rather not talk about it is a perfectly fine answer, Roland." she says, carefully putting the dress back down.

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:39 pm

"No, I..." Roland said, taking a deep breath and sighing. "I'm sorry. I'm not used to people....going through these things. I'm sorry, I'm just...uncomfortable."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:51 pm

"Oh, believe me, I understand. And I only have three decades worth of things I wouldn't want people digging through. If you get a chance, ask some people about the time I thought I was a teenager again."

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:26 pm

"Now, how did that work out?" Roland smiled, deftly trying to change the subject to Nailah's past rather than his own.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:36 pm

"I jumped out of the window of Cassiel's office when people tried to find a way to resolve the situation." she chuckles.

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:47 pm

"Preferred to stay as a teenager, hrm?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:12 pm

"No, more that I loathed the idea of a preordained future and it felt like that's what they were trying to drag me into."

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:38 pm

"You, hating the idea of a preordained future. Sure."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:42 pm

"Teenagers like having a choice and I didn't. Now I can appreciate the certainty it provides but when I was 15? I hated it. I'd wanted an awesome power, something cool and powerful. Instead I got a plan laid out in front of me."

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:44 pm

"I know what that can be like. It's never good to have your choices taken away from you."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:51 pm

"And you think precogs take it from you?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:01 pm

"That's not what I said. Plenty of people can do that," he said, perhaps a bit harshly.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:39 pm

"I realize that. You just seem to have a particular resentment towards precogs."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:14 pm

"My..." Roland said, pausing and taking a deep breath.

"My father and elder sister were both seers. And I have suffered because of them."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:21 pm

"I'm sorry to hear that. I like to think that I'm handling the burden of my gift better, but I'm not entirely sure that's true sometimes. It lends itself only too well to a worldview in which the end justifies the means."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:49 pm

"It's not a noble thing. It's not...not a matter of seeing the outcome and deciding to bear with temporary hardship. It can be...a selfish thing. A way of furthering your own life at the expense of others..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:05 pm

"Sometimes the temporary hardship is someone else's but no, I understand what you mean. Part of me wants to think there's some profound insight I could provide that grants you a new perspective but the truth is I don't know your family and they may have just been abusing their gift."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:11 pm

"Yes, you do," Roland muttered, thinking he was speaking to himself, though a bit louder than he intended.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:17 pm

"I do what?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:38 pm

"Hrm?" Roland said, trying to hide the mortification that Nailah heard him.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:17 pm

"Yes I do understand or yes I do know your family?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:39 pm

"Erm, the latter, I suppose. My sister is somewhat famous, as she did most of her foreseeing at, well, Delphi."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:00 pm

"Well, I have certainly heard of her then. I'm not sure if that qualifies as knowing her or being able to judge her actions."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:06 pm

"Yeah. She and Dad make the history books. A bit whitewashed, too."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:41 pm

"I suspect a lot of history is. If you want to talk about it I'd gladly listen."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:19 pm

"Why do you care?" he said. It wasn't accusatory as the words themselves, though, there seemed to be an honest question hidden behind the sarcasm.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:33 pm

"Because you seem like you could use a sympathetic ear. And also because I might be able to learn from other's mistakes. My way of doing things is already having an effect on Miranda. I've seen where it could lead and I'd rather it didn't. I wouldn't want her to feel about me the way you seem to feel about your family."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:04 pm

"Well, then, if you anger a goddess and she takes it out on your daughter, don't sell her into slavery. That's Roland's pro parenting tip number one."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:09 pm

"That... sounds like solid advice, alright. No wonder you have a bone to pick with your family."

by **Roland Sackville** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:30 pm

"Yeah. The fact that the old man died peacefully in his sleep has never sat well with me."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:41 pm

"They say the best revenge is to live well. I'd say you've done a hell of a job of that."

by **Roland Sackville** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:48 pm

"I suppose. Hard to judge that when the standards keep changing."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:54 pm

"I suppose that's true. I"d never thought about that." she admits, opening an old trunk, almost more of a chest, and glances over the contents.

by **Roland Sackville** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:01 pm

"There are things that I've done that would have me viewed as a monster today, but were just the way things were then. It's one reason why I don't really share much about my past."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:29 pm

"It's easy to judge something after the fact, I suppose." she nods. "Plus people like to consider themselves better than our ancestors on some intrinsic level."

by **Roland Sackville** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:35 pm

"It's easy to use the historical relativism brush when history's not standing right there."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:46 pm

"Sounds like it'd be hard to find a better history teacher. Now if only the students would appreciate that more, eh?" she chuckles.

by **Roland Sackville** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:36 pm

"Some of them appreciate it more than others..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:44 pm

"That sounds about right. Good lord, is this chalice genuine?" she asks, picking up an ornate chalice adorned with a symbol of intersecting circles. "This is the emblem of Avalon, isn't it?"

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