Day 20

[byheartandblade]

Dunno who's planning to do something reckless, but I caution against it. I saw something--a vision. I get them, from time to time. I only get ones like these as a warning. Something horrible's coming--something deadly. Very, very deadly. Talking about an entire army being wiped out and then some.

I'll talk more to whoever it seems relevant to. Let me know where to meet you and I'll talk to you in person.

- Fraethota

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[byheartandblade]

She nods.

"Aye, that's the very sword. I'd recognize it anywhere."

...Which means she's got a pretty good idea what the vision is getting at. He's be dead. Which she doesn't like at all, Murtagh seems like a decent person.

[oneformisery]

Wordlessly, Murtagh sheathed the blade with a quiet rasp of steel and a snick. So, he would be dead if he continued this path - or so they would have him believe. Suspicion at the far-too-convenient timing of her vision made him loathe to accept it immediately.

Alayne wasn't the only one who wished to see the young boy happy.

"...I don't doubt you saw what you did," he began slowly. "However, I can't accept that it's an inevitable result. Especially not the timing with which it comes. How can I know that your visions haven't been touched by Sorrow?"

[byheartandblade]

"It'd be the first to force the Echo an' t' pass through the Blessin' of Light unharmed. The Echo's either convenient as all hells, or not at all. 'S a gift I never asked for. But I have never--never--received a look at th' future that weren't a warnin' of what wast to come if someone weren't careful. One time I 'ad a vision where we didn't use a magitek field generator an' ended up eaten by a giant flyin' whale."

...She's not sure what she could do to prove it to him. She'll shrug, though, remaining casual easily. Maybe she could turn him to Thancred, maybe not. But the Echo isn't something you can force.

"Y' can believe it or not, but I 'ave to ask ye: are ye willin' to wager not just your life, but the life of everyone in the vision, of everyone 'ere, that ye won't be chargin' 'ead-first into the bloody end of everythin'?"

[oneformisery]

A lot of the terminology passed right over him. Murtagh shook his head, not dismissing her assertion, but rather, dismissing his own attempts to make sense of it all.

"I don't believe in charging recklessly into anything," he said flatly. "That's a warning better delivered to Alayne - which I will convey to her." A short pause. "The presence of those children worry me. Perhaps that will be enough..."