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ᴍᴀʀᴄᴜs ʀᴏᴡɴᴛʀᴇᴇ. ([personal profile] luaithre) wrote in [community profile] faderift2022-07-02 03:20 pm
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WHO: Bastien, Derrica, Edgard, Flint, Julius, Marcus, Tiffany, Tsenka
WHAT: It's a lovely day for a rescue mission
WHEN: Vaguely late Justinian
WHERE: A day out from Val Chevin
NOTES: Viiiolence
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[personal profile] luaithre 2022-07-17 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
When Julius emerges after him, Marcus isn't shy about curling a hand around his elbow, as much affection as it is the masculine urge to avoid losing his balance. His focus is off, now looking towards where the one who isn't dressed all in plate is sitting nearby, separated out from the herd. He feels the urge to move in that direction like a full-bodied shudder. Imagines dragging him to his feet, or down onto the ground.

It would be very embarrassing for everyone if he tried, and he swallows down that specific instinct, tuning back into what Julius is saying. What Tsenka adds.

His fingers grip a little harder.

"She needs questioning," spoken in a tone that suggests she needs more than to be merely questioned, but perhaps it's an agreeable start.
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[personal profile] cozen 2022-07-17 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Julius' observation settles around his shoulders like a particularly weighty cloak. Tsenka's theory—it makes sense. Whether because of Marcus' politics or because of his particularly interested sniffing-around for the source of the leak they'd sprung. The pool of candidates who had been with Riftwatch long enough, who didn't have verifiable pro-mage sympathies, who had access and opportunity was already so small. Foolish joins the other unhelpful feelings he refuses to actually feel right now.

"She does," he agrees. "And it might be to our benefit if she does not know what has happened here yet."

Maybe. He doesn't know. But announcements can't be taken back, and he glances around at the three mages for who might or might not have brought a sending crystal.

"If you must contact Madame de Cedoux," to make concessions for love, "make sure she keeps it to herself for now. I have to go back," to Derrica and Tiffany, he indicates with a head tip, and he strides away without any of his standard polite and friendly nonsense.
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[personal profile] overharrowed 2022-07-19 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
"She can hold her peace," Julius says, probably unnecessarily, to Bastien. Then, to Marcus, "We should contact her when you feel up to it. Tsenka let me speak to her on the way, but obviously she's..." Marcus can probably supply the lost end of the thought easily enough.

(If he feels a bit foolish himself, well, it can wait in the queue behind angry and relieved and exhausted.)

"And Tsenka is right," he adds, of the nature of the event. "If this wasn't about Marcus, they'd have made sure I was dead, if I wasn't worth capturing. I couldn't figure out why they didn't make sure, before. But if they thought they were working for us, subduing but not killing someone in a leadership position, that fits better."

Arlyn could be lying, of course, but it was seeming increasingly unlikely.
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