roxis rosenkrantz

[grigori]

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week 0; tuesday

[grigori]

[ hey, that sure is the shadow of a large bird coming after roxis! duck!

- no. it's suriel. they land easily beside him, a squirrel poking out of their hood. ]

Nice to see you again, Mister Rosenkrantz!

[trickedges]

[ all these mr rosenkrantzes are going to make him feel old. or like he's never left the academy. one or the other. ]

You... don't have to call me Mister Rosenkrantz. Roxis will do.

[ but yes, hello to you too, suriel. he'll incline his head briefly in greeting. ]

You weren't all angels before you came here, were you? You seem quite comfortable with flight.

[grigori]

Roxis it is, then!

And no, we weren't. But we've had a week or so before you guys showed up to get used to it, and I think flying is fun!

week 0; tuesday

[grigori]

[ satariel will come meet roxis somewhere that's lit, such as the hotel lobby or the larger cafe, so that they're able to speak in private but can. you know. see one another. their daemon comes in after them, whiskers forward as it sniffs the air. ]

Hello, Mister Rosenkrantz! It's nice to meet you - though I certainly wish it was under better circumstances, especially after how your day's been. Is your arm alright?

[trickedges]

[ let's say it's the larger cafe- anyway, oh, fellow noodle... Vosgetel doesn't make any move to greet it just yet, but she does lift her head from where she's reclining on a shoulder, nose twitching just a little. for his part Roxis just inclines his head in greeting. ]

I've had worse. Not thrilled about the possibility of contracting some sort of infection, though, considering who knows where her mouth has been.

[ he literally saw her hunting and munching on the wildlife, so,,, ]

I don't suppose you happen to have any antiseptics on you? [ pause. ] I apologize, you clearly already know who I am, [ and he knows what their- name? title?- is via the scrolls, ] so introductions probably aren't necessary, but still, I don't mean to be impolite.

[grigori]

No, I don't think it's impolite at all - don't worry. [ they make their way over to him, holding their hands up in a sort of gimme gesture as their daemon goes to climb one of the chairs. ] Let's see it. I can heal it a little, at least, so that there's not an infection and it won't scar.

You can introduce yourself in exchange, though, if you want, since it's a little impersonal for all of us to know who you are. At least we don't know everything about you - small comforts?

week 0; saturday

[grigori]

[ some time after the close of trial, suriel will come to meet roxis in the courtyard. ]

Baraqiel can manage him, I think. I don't mind talking with you, Roxis.

[trickedges]

You'd be a minority, funnily enough.

[ wry, self-deprecating jokes at his own expense aside-- ]

You said something earlier I didn't entirely catch the context of, but... [ hm. he's been turning it over in his head, and i, mauyn, hope this doesn't cause timeline implosion with where the other thread is or isn't going but. ] "We care for you, no matter what the ones who brought us here think," I think, is what you said.

Were you not recruited specifically because they wanted someone they thought of as aloof, or at the very least, a neutral party? Or did something else happen?

[ like maybe when they were trying to talk to the higher ups yesterday, or whatever it was they were doing? ]

[grigori]

[ there's a head tilt at that, but they drop it to focus on his questions. ]

Neutral? Maybe it's different for your Watchers, but I don't think I could ever really be neutral.

week 0; saturday

[grigori]

[ they'll come to meet him just outside of the opera house. ]

You guys have been busy out here. It's not surprising you'd have trouble talking to all of us.

[trickedges]

Still, given that this is apparently a competition, teams and sides and all... I should at least try to understand who it is I'm to be [ answering to? ] working with.

[ there's a part of him that normally would be like 'competition? let's win it, no mercy' but this is not something he's sure he wants to win. not like this, anyway.

he just watches yomiel with a neutral expression, his daemon curled up and peeking out of his pocket. ]

First off: has any of what's happened benefited our apparent alignment at all? Second, but possibly related: was Qi Rong acting entirely of his own will?

[ because if that's the kind of teammate he has to expect, eurgh. who the hell picked these teams. ]

week 0; saturday

[grigori]

[ wherever roxis is, after trial, baraqiel will come to meet him after they receive the message. it's a little while later, though - a decent enough delay to make it seem like maybe he won't receive an answer. but they arrive, without their daemon. ]

Depends on the questions, as to whether you'll get an answer or not.

[trickedges]

[ oh. roxis will nod briefly in acknowledgement of their presence, not expecting the visit this long after- but, well, after talking to suriel he can take a guess as to what kept baraqiel busy.

is still keeping their daemon busy, possibly. ]

Fair enough. My question is simple, in any case.

If the circumstances surrounding all this are so objectionable to you, why did you agree to becoming a Watcher?

[ like, sure, he's got the understanding all of them had misleading and possibly tailored pitches, but. baraqiel certainly seemed the angriest about it, at trial. ]

week 1; thursday

[grigori]

[ hup! satariel lets their momentum carry them forward in a quick one-two-three trot after landing on the ground next to roxis in a glide, dusting themself off now that they've found him. ]

We could tell that people went missing, but didn't - they were here, but not. We just don't know what happened to them.

[trickedges]

[ he's probably hanging around in the city somewhere, on some higher, less likely to be disturbed perch, so hello to you too Satariel. Vosgetel is a deer curled up by his legs, and he seems to be... well, it looks like he's trying to sort his thoughts, since his notebook's folded on top of his legs, but he seems a little too distracted to be getting anywhere with that.

he'll nod a greeting to them, but since they're getting right to it: ]

So you couldn't tell anything at all through the link other than that?

[ hm. ]

week 1; wednesday

[grigori]

[ no idea where roxis is but rameel can be found somewhere nearby him. ]

Oh, you don't have to worry about me feeling left out, but I welcome the visit nevertheless.

[trickedges]

[ this is honestly probably not long after his cave spelunking trip, so, up on the north end of the city somewhere? ]

All the same. I should at least try to treat you all equally, regardless of your senses of humor. Anyway.

[ tosses a conch at Rameel! ]

That doesn't look like any of the ones I've seen in the places we can get to here. Does it look different because it's from further out, [ which is the reasonable explanation, but, ] or is there more to it?

[ recent webbed prints reveal your secrets..... which is very funny in a backtagged audience after the return of cyoa 2. ]

week 1; saturday

[grigori]

[ who knows where roxis is but shamsiel will be in the castle somewhere. ]

There will be things that I can't tell, but overall I don't think being on different teams is any reason for us not to speak to one another.

[trickedges]

[ A Castle is Fine, Too

honestly he's probably in the solar, contemplating his cards and some of the books on the shelf. ]

Consider it a preemptive reminder that it's fine if you have to not answer for your own sake. I know Suriel, at least, might be inclined to try to test their limits.

[ speaking of. ]

... I never asked: what is it the three of you do when the others are in the city and vice versa?

week 1; saturday

[grigori]

[ some time after bertolt has been taken away, yomiel comes to greet roxis in the plaza. ]

What's this note?

[trickedges]

From that time about two days ago when four of our number disappeared for a little while. I don't have it on me- in fact I don't actually know where it is anymore. You'll have to take my word for it, but I did write down exactly what it was someone else relayed to me.

[ he honestly does not need his notebook for this, considering how much it's distracted him over the last day or two, but he'll flip to a specific page for reference anyway. you know, just in case he remembered wrong (he didn't). ]

"These windows between our worlds, that we opened with our greedy hands, have so foolishly been left open. And so we are all punished for that hubris, as the spectres take all that we are."

week 3; saturday

[grigori]

[ i don't know where anything takes place anymore. ]

I've called Prosecutor van Zieks many names! I don't think he has liked any of them.

Hm? Alchemy? You want that for your time in the Suburbs?

[trickedges]

[ neither do I tbh ]

Name a few, I'm [ morbidly ] curious. But yes, I figured I'd try to get back at least some of it so that Ulrika isn't left to handle everything.

[ what if one day they need...... 4 syntheses. ]

week 6; monday

[grigori]

You've already got the Book of the Dead, right? You can look at the Book of Life as its other half. [ hey. ]

[trickedges]

[ has he made friends. has he, ray. what the hell is a friend. hey you too. ]

I take it that it's the list of people who are worthy of salvation then, or some sort of nonsense like that?