Post by tezzy on Mar 3, 2010 22:55:05 GMT -5
Josef is why Undercity needs a department of Child Welfare.
3/3 00:48:22.984 Josef seems distracted by the small skeleton in his company. He's in the middle of having a conversation with it? Mumbled and laughing, hardly audible. He looks at the little bone-creature fondly as he speaks.
3/3 00:48:24.125 Tezzy ...belatedly notes the lack of cockroaches.
3/3 00:48:38.390 Josef looks up sharply when another addresses him. "Whoozat!?"
3/3 00:50:00.359 Tezzy "Oh, nobod-" She recognizes the burnt and rotten Campion when he looks up. Her face is ...shocked. Horror is a state of mind, not a reflex anymore. "Um-"
3/3 00:50:30.078 Tezzy rubs the back of her neck, picking up the few spilled things. Oh god, what now.
3/3 00:50:47.453 Josef says: Ahgh! You! I remember YOU! Little dead lady in Brill! Had the nerve to accost a poor, downtrodden old man, wasn't it!
3/3 00:51:27.125 Tezzy nearly panics. "A-accost?"
3/3 00:52:09.984 Tezzy says: I don't- know what you're talking about.
3/3 00:52:31.953 Josef makes a harsh sound in his throat. "Eegggh. Neither here nor there. Neither here nor there, never you mind."
3/3 00:53:32.296 Josef says: Had some DAFT things to say about those red wolves up on the hill looking over our city, you did! Lucky you didn't get some sense knocked into your head flat out for such things!
3/3 00:54:09.265 Tezzy 's mouth drops a little. "I- eheh. Right, lucky, that."
3/3 00:55:16.640 Tezzy nods slowly. "Right. ...Is that, I'm sorry - Is that...?" She can't bring herself to say it, but she gestures at the little skeleton.
3/3 00:56:37.984 Josef follows her gestures, and he gets that fond look on his face again as the skeleton looks back up at him with hollow sockets.
3/3 00:56:53.000 Josef says: Ahh, this is my boy. My son. This here is my Benny.
3/3 00:58:06.234 Tezzy addresses the little boy with a nod. "I've heard about you." She searches his hollow-socketed face.
3/3 00:59:04.437 Josef smiles a snaggle-toothed grin at the skeleton, and he gives it a gentle nudge. It just shifts with the motion. "Go on, lady's talking to you. You be polite, you do like your old man taught you."
3/3 00:59:27.984 You kneel down.
3/3 01:00:06.234 Josef continues to smile as the little skeleton turns to look towards Tezzy and gives a jerky nod, its jaw going slack briefly before clacking shut again. There's the faintest of a rasp, the only vocalization it's capable of with whatever necromancy fuels it.
3/3 01:00:44.046 Josef says: Aye, he's a polite boy. Knows how to keep his manners, mind his father. Such a good boy.
3/3 01:01:50.718 Tezzy watches Josef from the corner of her eye, smiling shyly at the child skeleton. "Hello." she says, seriously, with a little wave. "I knew your-" she amends quickly, "family, alive." She purses her lips over the boy's head at the father. She doesn't trust him one bit.
3/3 01:03:38.640 Josef looks at Tezzy sharply, frowning. (The expression is eeriely familiar.) "Ehh? Whozzat?" The little skeleton seems to go a little rigid as Josef's tone gets stern.
3/3 01:05:07.781 Tezzy tilts her head at Josef. "Ah, nobody you'd remember." She taps the little boy's collarbone gently, a tiny affectionate gesture. He's really quite creepy, poor thing.
3/3 01:05:23.796 Tezzy doesn't really think that's gonna fly, but she's trying.
3/3 01:06:49.812 Josef says: Rubbish. Brill was a small place! Still is! Or Andorhal, mayhaps. Stratholme? Did business there in my time.
3/3 01:07:54.156 Josef continues to scrutenize Tezzy with narrowed, glowing eyes, trying to figure if he recognizes her or not. The little boy skeleton eventually jerkily totters back towards his undead parent, sitting close with a clatter.
3/3 01:09:28.250 Tezzy smiles a forced smile, watching the boy return to his parent. She weighs the pros and cons of honesty, for longer than probably is necessary. She stands, dusting nothing off her legplates.
3/3 01:09:38.781 Tezzy says: Mn.. Valerii Winchel's orphan, you knew her?
3/3 01:09:43.453 Tezzy smirks a little.
3/3 01:10:18.296 Josef says: Ahh, I do. The apothacary woman's little trollop. Sorry, sick little thing she was.
3/3 01:10:33.062 Josef apparently hasn't made the connection.
3/3 01:10:52.171 Tezzy grits her teeth, "Wh-?" She FROWNS, though.
3/3 01:11:05.140 Tezzy 's face is pretty recognizable, unless Josef has some serious beer goggles.
3/3 01:11:51.781 Tezzy looks like she's got something sour in her mouth. "She was no such thing, sir."
3/3 01:11:52.203 Josef just fosters a severe disconnect from reality at all times. He picks a claw at a leathery patch of burn scars on his cheek, rasping to himself as he thinks back.
3/3 01:12:54.468 Josef says: Sorry thing! I stand by it! Miserable and sickly! Sad thing. Sad. Only made worse by THAT one always banging about, dragging her places, sneaking into her house. Bahhh! She was bad off enough as is, she didn't need the brat tormenting her.
3/3 01:14:46.046 Tezzy frowns at the slime waterfall, for lack of a better place to frown. "Eh- I... I meant." She rolls her eyes. What an idiot. "The name's Tatiana, sir, and it was no torment." Lies hasn't solved one of her problems yet, so lets try some honesty.
3/3 01:14:56.546 Tezzy crosses her arms, though. No handshake for Josef.
3/3 01:15:19.968 Josef says: Ahh! You! It's-...It's you, is it! YOU'RE the girl! Well!
3/3 01:15:45.859 Josef squints at her, then barks a wheezing laugh. "By the LIGHT, what a world it is! That even you end up here with the rest of us!"
3/3 01:16:42.484 Tezzy smirks. He's an awful bastard but a link to her past nonetheless. "Even me. How, uh. How are things, then, the two of you alone?"
3/3 01:16:55.750 Tezzy sidles a little.
3/3 01:18:03.500 Josef says: Splendid! Right splendid, they are. I've got my boy back! It's all I've ever wanted out of life. I'm content, I am.
3/3 01:18:33.109 Josef pats a hand on top of Benny's skull. The skeleton rasps, dropping its jaw again before clacking shut once more.
3/3 01:19:24.156 Tezzy 's feeling a little combative. "It's hardly teaching your boy good manners, saying like you did about a lady. I'd appreciate an apology."
3/3 01:20:51.562 Josef says: Ah! I meant no offense, so don't you take any. Felt sorry for you, I did! Sickabed the better part of the time, and having THAT one inflicted on you? Ehh, dreadful, that!
3/3 01:21:42.828 Josef rasps in the back of his throat, which escalates into a wet, rattling cough. When it subsides, he chokes out, "Put the fear of the Light into that one for it, I did. Shouldn't go about, tormenting the sick, he shouldn't."
3/3 01:23:07.140 Tezzy narrows her eyes. What crazytown world does this fellow live in. "Mn." she neither agrees nor disagrees. "You-?" This never got back to her! "That was-" She looks away, frowning fiercely. "You shouldn't have done that."
3/3 01:24:44.953 Josef looks confused, furrowing his brow. "Ehh? Done what."
3/3 01:27:44.968 Tezzy can't articulate 'beat your child' because she just can't. "He- I didn't have anyone else, he was a good friend." She sort of knows she just jumped off a cliff there but it needed to be said. "He feared the Light quite enough for both of us." When she glances back, she looks at the skeletal boy.
3/3 01:29:04.640 Josef says: HAH! Oh, don't you try and play it down, I know how it was. I know, and you rest easy, cuz Josef took care of it. That one was TROUBLE, make no mistake about it! Nothing but pestering and trouble and bad ideas!
3/3 01:29:43.781 Zephurial bestows a simple blessing.
3/3 01:30:52.968 Josef nods in thanks. Heck yes, blessings. He mumbles as he goes on. "Aye, I know how that one was. If I'm going to apolgize for ANYTHING, it'll be THAT little monster having to bother you like he did."
3/3 01:31:22.718 Josef says: He was out of line, he was.
3/3 01:31:50.640 Tezzy shakes her head, baring her teeth in an unhappy frown. "I... well." Oh Light, more talking. She looks completely appalled. "I don't think- Mr. Campion, I don't think you and I are gonna see eye to eye here."
3/3 01:32:14.406 Tezzy says: Tell me about Benedict?
3/3 01:32:31.265 Tezzy tries unsuccessfully to force even the fakest of smiles. She'll investigate this.
3/3 01:32:59.000 Josef grins! Oh! A good topic! "Ahh, what do you want to know? He's a good boy, he is. He's my GOOD son. Nothing like the other one, he was."
3/3 01:33:31.578 Tezzy says: How, uh. Did- how were the two of you reunited?
3/3 01:34:32.593 Josef says: Ahh! Tiddia, that angel. Was her doing, it was. She came to me, and talked to me, and I told her how I missed Benny so. And she comes with me to where he was put to rest, and she brings him back to me!
3/3 01:34:53.656 Josef pats the skeleton's skull fondly again.
3/3 01:34:59.015 Tezzy 8[!
3/3 01:35:09.343 Tezzy says: T-tiddia?
3/3 01:35:29.890 Tezzy 's jaw is hanging a little. Sometimes the world is small in awful ways.
3/3 01:35:49.718 Josef says: Aye, that's the one. Asked me later to call her 'Ronch'. Hardly a suitable name for one as saintly as her, but whatever she asks of me, I do it gladly. She gave me back my boy! My son!
3/3 01:37:18.593 Tezzy 's smirk is utterly humorless. "Right." A question's in her eyes, as she gazes at the former Josef Campion, but she wants to spare the little boy. "Are you going to be an apothecary like your father?" she asks the skeleton, gently.
3/3 01:37:35.375 Tezzy | because a-paladin-like-your-brother isn't really an available career option.
3/3 01:38:21.062 Josef butts in regardless. "He's going to stay with me. I'm keeping him safe from here on out." That had is resting on Benny's skull now, posessively.
3/3 01:38:54.984 Tezzy says: Isn't that... A little odd?
3/3 01:39:05.640 Tezzy says: I mean, don't you-.
3/3 01:39:12.390 Josef says: Odd? A father's love and protection is ODD to you?
3/3 01:40:09.859 Tezzy glances from father to son. "Mr. Campion-" shaking that honorific is hard!
3/3 01:40:33.234 Tezzy says: It- ehh... I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, Mr. Campion.
3/3 01:40:38.671 Tezzy frowns. Except maybe you.
3/3 01:42:16.718 Josef frowns up at the woman, narrowing his eyes. "What do you think you're saying." His tone has taken a turn for the threateningly defensive.
3/3 01:44:36.578 Tezzy frowns, "I'm saying- I'm saying I wouldn't wish it on a child. Who's never gonna grow up. Never gonna live a real life, sir, I'm sorry, it-" She looks apologetically at the little boy skeleton. "It doesn't seem right to me."
3/3 01:44:57.890 Tezzy is standing her ground! She's obviously got quite the grudge on Joey C.
3/3 01:45:38.562 Josef says: Achh! You stay away! You'll not take him! You'll not take my boy! This is my son, my only son, and you'll not deprive me of him again!
3/3 01:45:57.062 Josef immediately yanks the little skeleton close to him and takes a clawed SWIPE at Tezzy, growling.
3/3 01:47:33.843 Tezzy hops back a step from the swipe, frowning. "I'm not takin' anybody." she says to the man, though her eyes at the boy are apologetic. Now she really wants to. "Calm down, Light." her voice is vaguely scolding.
3/3 01:48:43.671 Josef says: You don't know! You wouldn't know, you harpy! You nag! You wouldn't know what it's like to lose a son! I'll not let it happen again! You'll not take my only son from me now that I've got him back!
3/3 01:50:12.046 Mornherald stumbles along the stones, scattered coughs gradually clumping together; by the time he come to the little overhang, he's worked up to a hacking fit. He rummages in his bag to pull out a handkerchief -- a fetching lavender one! and hold it to his mouth.
3/3 01:50:29.531 Mornherald ducks under the bridge, apparently blind enough not to notice the Forsaken he may be about to expectorate on.
3/3 01:51:02.968 Josef growls at the SECOND interloper present now, still clutching the child-sized skeleton to him.
3/3 01:51:10.156 Tezzy frowns, looking away again. "No, I don't know that, sir." Her gaze catches on Mornherald. This is why she doesn't come to the Undercity. WHAT DO I DO NOW says her face.
3/3 01:51:57.218 Tezzy is too busy being ANGRY and SAD to offer Mornherald any help.
3/3 01:52:12.953 Josef turns his attention back to Tezzy, still snarling. "This is a DAMN fine life, I'll have you KNOW! I've got my son, my GOOD son, alive and back with me, and the BAD one, the WORTHLESS one, is dead! This is how it SHOULD be, it is!"
3/3 01:53:26.640 Tezzy raises her voice to shout him down almost as soon as he speaks. "It is NOT that. It is NOT fine. What is WRONG with you!?"
3/3 01:52:42.062 Mornherald doesn't pay either of them any mind, crashing plated shoulder-first into the wall and making very uncomfortable noises into his hanky. A few seconds of that and then he slumps, head hanging exhaustedly.
3/3 01:53:50.812 Josef only spares another scowling glance at the elf when he draws nearer, clutching Benny even tighter.
3/3 01:54:24.062 Tezzy scowwwls, but gives Morn a level look. You okay, bro?
3/3 01:55:45.250 Josef looks dartingly between the two, snaggle-teeth bared. He's looking more and more like a crazed, cornered animal.
3/3 01:55:58.500 Mornherald gradually straightens, folding up the hanky and making a face. A few lich-blue blinks visible beneath the shadow of his hood as he makes an awkward glance between the gentleman and his skeleton and... Blink. "Miss Te--" he starts hoarsely, but stops.
3/3 01:56:30.437 Tezzy is concerned when she doesn't get a shouting response from Josef. "...What."
3/3 01:56:35.250 Mornherald looks between the two of them again, ears flicking back, shoulders hunching a little. Maybe not something he should just fling himself into...
3/3 01:57:35.218 Josef says: Not a DAMN thing wrong here. How it's supposed to be, it is! Good son's back, the bad son's dead! That's RIGHT! That's as it is and how it should be and how it'll STAY!
3/3 01:58:34.078 Josef doesn't seem to care for being surrounded, as it were. Even as he spits his words, he continues darting glares between Mornherald and Tezzy.
3/3 01:59:23.687 Tezzy 's eyes widen at the realization. "Your boy's a person, not a toy, Mr. Campion." Light, she hopes so.
3/3 02:00:21.843 Tezzy says: Though I suppose that's just the Winter's Veil present you wanted, wasn't it.
3/3 02:00:32.328 Tezzy jumps back and forth between things ICly too.
3/3 02:02:06.875 Josef wrinkles his nose, snarling at Tezzy exclusively now. "He's my BOY, and I'm not losing him again! You just try! And aye, AYE! Twas a nice thing to get in the post, it was. News that that BASTARD, that WHELP, was gone forever!? Pah! World's better for it!"
3/3 02:02:57.546 Mornherald wipes some gray dribble from his nose and returns Josef's glare with a little shrinking back, free hand raising a bit in an appeasing don't-bite-me! gesture. ... But he then looks long at Tezzy, reaching up to push his hood back.
3/3 02:03:30.953 Tezzy sneers something awful. She doesn't even know what to do, except that making a move at Josef would be irreversable. She turns her attention on Morny. "...You allright over there?" An abrupt change of tone and subject to be sure.
3/3 02:04:38.078 Josef hunches up, shrinking a bit, clutching posessively still at the little skeleton, now stooped a bit over it. Eyes continue to dart back and forth distrustingly.
3/3 02:04:39.593 Mornherald looks at Tezzy; "Fine. ... Allergies." ... Was that a crack? In any case, he gives Tezzy a questioning look, one long eyebrow raised, with one more glance towards Josef, head cocked a little towards him. His expression is a little concerned; everything OK
3/3 02:04:51.312 Mornherald ...?
3/3 02:05:30.000 Tezzy gives Josef a look of bald contempt. "Just meeting old family friends."
3/3 02:08:08.156 Mornherald sniffs daintily as he tucks the handkerchief away, peering at Josef, though his posture and ears are still back, not too curious or pressuring. "Friends," he murmurs, and looks up at Tezzy again.
3/3 02:08:40.125 Josef is still very much not in a friendly posture. He glares venomously at Mornherald. Yeah, you just TRY something, buddy.
3/3 02:10:19.765 Tezzy doesn't really mean to deputize Morny into this fight but she needs Josef's crimes aired to someone. "Josef Campion, and his son Benedict." She glances down at the pitiful pair, at this venomous introduction. "Benny died before I came to Brill." she explains, hoping Morn will piece together the awful peices himself.
3/3 02:11:22.203 Josef makes a choked sound, perhaps something out of shock or sudden sadness, and a clawed hand rests on Benny's skull again. Reminders of his 'only' son's death are sad, sad things.
3/3 02:12:31.921 Mornherald looks back down at Josef and child, long brow becoming a troubled, crinkled line. "... Pleasure," he murmurs, though it doesn't sound as if he means it at all. His eyes on the skeletal boy especially.
3/3 02:13:04.890 Tezzy says: ...So we never had the chance to meet.
3/3 02:14:01.328 Josef says: If you'd have known Benny, you'd know! You'd know PLENTY and in FULL what a monster the other one was! Benny here was a good boy, always listened. Always stayed out of trouble. Not like the OTHER one. Pah!
3/3 02:14:35.578 Josef mutters something VERY hateful about hoping this other son is enjoying those hellfires he so richly deserves.
3/3 02:15:08.953 Tezzy shakes her head no, almost instinctively. He's wrong! "You don't know what you're talking about." she says quietly, but the mutters get her goat. "That's a LIE!"
3/3 02:15:50.812 Mornherald chews the inside of his mouth and looks away, furrows in his brow deepening. When his eyes come back to Josef there's a deep frown there. On the other hand his body language remains backed and nonthreatening.
3/3 02:16:15.656 Josef says: Ehh!? You hush; you're saying a FATHER doesn't know his own boy? I knew that one better than anyone, I saw him for what a MONSTER he was!
3/3 02:20:34.703 Tezzy opens and closes her hands. She wants to do violence to this asshole. "You're no father! You were no father at all!"
3/3 02:21:21.421 Josef gapes at her, aghast! SHE'S raising her voice to HIM!?
3/3 02:22:45.531 Mornherald continues to studiously pose at being uninvolved. ... But, for some reason, he's still lurking around here, and observing them both keenly.
3/3 02:23:17.187 Tezzy is hardly ever bigger than anybody! She looks down her nose at Josef, pretty disgusted but not about to make the first move. Oh Light, Morny's still there. She looks up at him after Josef's well-deserved sneer.
3/3 02:23:49.578 Josef regards Mornherald as a non-entity at this point anyhow. Tezzy's the active THREAT here, and his attention span is a spotty thing anyhow.
3/3 02:27:43.031 Tezzy frowwwwns. "You aren't - you shouldn't be- You're the monster, Campion, and that child-" she almost rolls her eyes, if it's a proper living thing at all - "deserves better than you." She's kind of white knighting both brothers at once, somehow.
3/3 02:28:44.734 Josef sputters! "Ahch! How dare you! Bitch! I'll box some sense into you before you take him from me!" Oh dear, fighting words.
3/3 02:29:18.656 Mornherald is so very innocent. That he shifts his weight, adjusting his balance, at those particular words, is totally coincidental.
3/3 02:30:24.000 Tezzy isn't really frightened! She's strapped into plate armor, after all, and doesn't have any vitals to preserve. She takes a cautious half-step backward.
3/3 02:31:04.484 Tezzy says: You'll do nothing like that-.
3/3 02:31:34.406 Josef snarls at her, eyes bulging, his hold on that poor, wee skeleton an ironic death grip at this point. If Benny were a living, sentient(?) thing, he'd no doubt be in pain right now.
3/3 02:32:24.484 Josef says: Oh, but I will! You stay back, if you know what's right! You're putting your nose in places it doesn't belong, WOMAN!
3/3 02:32:31.312 Josef spits that last word like it's a vile insult.
3/3 02:32:54.515 Tezzy frowns at the chokehold Josef has on Benny. He's a skeleton but- the illusion of life is important sometimes. "Josef- Calm down, you're hurting him."
3/3 02:33:23.015 Josef says: BEGONE! YOU LEAVE ME BE!
3/3 02:34:45.078 Tezzy really wants to. This shouldn't be her problem! "I-" She glances away. "I can't. It's not right. It's not RIGHT." Her hand wanders to the hilt of an axe before she catches it. She's shaking her head no like a tic. Not right.
3/3 02:36:14.203 Mornherald isn't doing a thiiiing. Other than leaning slightly forward, watching Josef veeeery closely.
3/3 02:36:21.828 Josef has all but forgotten that Mornherald is there. He hisses at Tezzy like some kind of sick animal.
3/3 02:38:07.953 Tezzy 's expression is disgusted. She can't stand this. She steps forward, a restraining hand going for Josef's shoulder. She means to back him against the wall, and then what? She doesn't yet know.
3/3 02:39:53.750 Josef isn't hard to grab, OR hard to hold back. He's a frail, sorry thing and his shoulders thump against the wall behind him. He SCREECHES.
3/3 02:40:09.703 Josef says: YOU'LL NOT TOUCH ME, YOU BITCH!
3/3 02:40:53.828 Josef is torn between lashing out and clutching onto his son. In his frustrated rage, he SPITS at Tezzy in the meantime.
3/3 02:41:49.359 Tezzy whips her head around, the last thing she wants is a crowd on this man's side. "You shut up! You're a monster, a foul monster who was never human!" She winces at the spit, but keeps her death-granted vicegrip on Josef's shoulder.
3/3 02:43:51.640 Josef DOESN'T shut up! "You'll not take him! You'll kill me before you take my boy from me again! Go to hell! You go to hell, you harpy! Bitch!" He sputters insults in his absolute INSANE fury.
3/3 02:44:15.125 Mornherald continues to observe, although there is something a tad more... predatory, careful in the way he watches Tezzy, but Josef in particular. Doesn't seem like he's at all ruffled by the outburst.
3/3 02:46:52.875 Tezzy sputters herself! "I won't- I won't-" She seems like she'd rather like to, though. "She presses a forearm against his throat, pretty full of rage herself. She snarls, not finding the right words, all up in Josef's grill.
3/3 02:48:01.515 Josef RASPS when the boney arm is at his throat, and that's finally when he relents his hold on little Benny, clawed hands scrabbling out, scratching at whatever he can reach, scrabbling at armour, at her face if he can manage it.
3/3 02:49:54.062 Mornherald at that moment shifts all of his focus to Benny, staring intently at the skeleton. One arm tenses up, raising slightly -- he manages to hold it down rather than explicitly make the beckoning gesture it wants to. Relatively ghoul-impaired Jiel may be, but.
3/3 02:50:48.421 Mornherald thinks it's worth a try: with a look of intense concentration, mentally screaming at the small skeleton, like a hysterical dog owner with no confidence whatsoever at being able to control his tiny pooch: COME!
3/3 02:51:52.046 Tezzy aargh! Being properly attacked is something she knows how to respond to, though. She aims a strike at his face, a purely spiteful blow before she moves to restrain his arms.
3/3 02:52:41.968 Josef makes a hard, rattling GASP when the skeleton rattles out of his lap, clattering to the stone floor like it were yanked by a string. "KIDNAPPERS! MONSTERS! HELP! KIDN-" And that's when he takes a hard smack in the mouth, cutting off in a gurgle.
3/3 02:54:34.234 Josef struggles, of course, even as black ichor dribbles down his face. He glares nothing but pure HATE at Tezzy. Meanwhile, the little skeleton gets to its feet and sways. Staring in the direction of Mornherald. It trembles, as it uncertain what to do, or perhaps it's simply being pulled two ways by two opposing and equally loud wills.
3/3 02:55:09.906 Mornherald winces; that's not what he quite intended to do. But he tries to restore his concentration a second later; Coooomeee, enunciating the world carefully in his head, thinking words in Scourge; niiiice skelly, goooood skelly, come to me.
3/3 02:55:37.515 Tezzy is conflicted! "Shut UP!" she says again, though she raises her voice over Josef's to do so. "I want you to face JUSTICE, you ASSHOLE." She's trying to get a hold of him though he's scrabbling like a polecat, and she'e doesn't know what she'll do with him if she gets him.
3/3 02:55:40.328 Mornherald stares Benny down intently, lips parting a little, slightly blue-tinged breath hissing out gently through his teeth.
3/3 02:57:19.062 Josef burbles, black frothing at his lips. As he struggles, now focusing more on attacking Tezzy and trying to break free from her, the skeleton wobbles. Then totters. Then takes jerky, mechanical steps towards Mornherald.
3/3 03:00:43.046 Mornherald continues to concentrate intently on Benny, keeping his eyes fixed on the skeleton's empty sockets. ... And, at the same time, he forces his near arm to relax, soften, and turn palm-up, gauntleted hand offered gently. ...
3/3 03:01:08.265 Tezzy smashes a few more strikes at Josef's face, IT WORKED ONCE and she's just exorcizing frustrations, now. She aims a heavy-booted kick downward at one of Josef's legs.
3/3 03:01:37.968 Mornherald ... is expending so much effort on this, though, that the whole -rest- of his body is rigid, teeth quietly clenching.
3/3 03:03:11.921 Josef catches the motion out of the corner of his eye, the little skeleton's hesitant steps making him look sidelong. He screams again, right when Tezzy's hand smashes into his head again. And again. Again, he's cut to gurgling.
3/3 03:07:29.796 Tezzy maybe surfaces a little from Violence Land. "Shut up!" she offers. Not really giving big speeches today.
3/3 03:08:18.281 Josef does shut up. Well, for the most part. There's still hissing and gurgling, but he's out of it now. Too many blows to the head. Which seems to make Benny's walking to Mornherald that much less restrained. There's only ONE will tugging at him now.
3/3 03:09:50.734 Mornherald continues to hold intense concentration, tuning out all the screaming and violence. The offered hand extends a little more, a new barrage of mental whispers: Come. Take the hand. Come. Hurry.
3/3 03:10:44.765 Mornherald is perhaps recalling a different siren song he recently listened to, because he's beginning to find a bit more of his inner death knight voice, more confidently commanding, icy and compelling. The fingers twitch just a little; come, take it.
3/3 03:11:13.328 Josef | The little skeleton does so obediently. He does exactly as he's told, in fact. Approaches, takes Mornherald's hand, hurries. This might draw question into just how much free will the little pile of bones is capable of.
3/3 03:12:13.671 Tezzy gives the little skelly a frantic glance when Josef goes a little dull-eyed. She doesn't have time for second thoughts. "Oh Light, come on-" She gives Morny a patented Oh Shit What Now face, shoving Josef roughly against the wall, letting him slide down,
3/3 03:12:49.984 Tezzy nearly pants this next at Mornherald, panicking. "We gotta get out of here-"
3/3 03:13:15.531 Mornherald begins to turn the moment the skeleton takes his hand, ... though having to concentrate on continuing the stream of mentally whispered commands, attending to his 'ghoul,' means that he moves with an extremely stiff robot gait. But he is hurrying.
3/3 03:13:30.140 Josef does indeed slump against the wall, gurgling and rasping, black ichor coating his chin and staining his already filthy robes.
3/3 03:14:10.453 Tezzy takes the stairs! She's not about to go any faster than hustling-morn is, heading out the elevators (like an idiot).
3/3 03:14:25.046 Mornherald gives Tezzy a tense look... and then... changes plan and scoops the small skeleton into his arms, although he keeps up the mental stream of commands.
3/3 03:14:32.562 Mornherald says: [Scourge] Ig... ehhga...
3/3 03:14:44.015 Mornherald hhnnnnnggghhh expression.
3/3 03:14:49.171 Tezzy gives Morn a sharp look at THAT LANGUAGE.
3/3 03:15:16.156 Mornherald seems to have no clue that he's speaking it, his concentration is being taken up so much.
3/3 03:16:22.218 Tezzy gives Morn a worried look. "I'm so sorry- I... where..?"
3/3 03:16:24.437 Mornherald may or may not actually be muttering softly to the kidnapee in Scourge, even though he's carrying him.
3/3 03:16:47.562 Mornherald says: Bri... ? Sil...
3/3 03:17:03.062 Tezzy says: Not SIlvermoon, we'll...
3/3 03:17:14.046 Tezzy laughs crazily. "We'll stand out, ha."
3/3 03:17:29.640 Tezzy says: I know, come on.
3/3 03:18:09.562 Tezzy says: Is he...?
3/3 03:18:15.421 Tezzy looks back at the door.
3/3 03:18:33.343 Mornherald cradles the small skeleton, nodding long after Tezzy's gaze averts. ... Benny is light enough in the big manly deathknight's arms, he's able to coddle the preteen like a baby.
3/3 03:18:51.656 Mornherald says: ... Who--
3/3 03:21:46.796 Tezzy slows at an apparently-random spot. She certainly looks like she was headed -somewhere- but this is... nowhere. Slightly grassier than treesier. "I- Light, thank you Mornherald."
3/3 03:22:27.843 Mornherald continues to cradle Benny, although his expression is hardly gentle; it's still of INTENSE CONCENTRATION, a scowl... almost a snarl, blue eyes smoking and crazy. ... But when they stop and Tezzy speaks to him, he seems to slowly come out of whatever place Jiel had crawled off to, and blinks at her stupidly.
3/3 03:23:23.703 Tezzy gives Benny a concerned look, though she turns it on Morny too, "I-I-I.. I didn't mean it to-..." she shakes her head. "I didn't mean..." Big frown.
3/3 03:23:48.265 Mornherald ... then looks down at the fleshless boy in his arms with an expression of mild stupefaction. As if thinking: what do I do with this!?
3/3 03:24:09.546 Tezzy says: I'm so sorry, I'm sorry-.
3/3 03:24:23.500 Mornherald says: ... We... we. ... We.
3/3 03:24:24.203 Tezzy | It isn't apparent if she's addressing the boy or the Knight.
3/3 03:24:41.406 Mornherald ... stammers. ... Then bends to let Benny to the ground... if the creature will stand.
3/3 03:25:26.375 Pollution | Benny is lowered to the ground, and he stands...but that's about it. His posture sways, like the mindless undead that litter these hills.
3/3 03:26:14.234 Tezzy looks fiercely to Mornherald, feeling like she needs to convince him. "He's a monster, I swear it. He-" She looks down to Benny, patting his skull like she's stroking hair. Oh PLEASE be allright. "Benny-"
3/3 03:26:22.031 Mornherald keeps wary eyes on Benny, as if ready to blast more commands at him if need be; he relaxes, though, bit by bit, when it doesn't look like the chap will do anything untoward.
3/3 03:26:52.453 Mornherald says: ... Necromancy... to raise children... for... se, sentiment, uh...
3/3 03:27:30.921 Pollution | Benny is indeed the picture of harmlessness! Just a tottering little skeleton. There could very well be no one home in there.
3/3 03:27:32.031 Tezzy nods, her face taking on that sour grimace again. She makes an inarticulate disgusted noise.
3/3 03:27:49.046 Mornherald is hampered not just by his poor command of Orcish; he looks terribly confused and distracted and tired. Would have probably been simpler to jump on the little skeleton and truss him up, then haul him off.
3/3 03:28:16.875 Mornherald says: ... Not responsible.
3/3 03:28:34.250 Mornherald settles on that, making a gesture as if wiping his forehead with the back of a hand... though he probably didn't sweat.
3/3 03:29:54.531 Tezzy gathers the skeleboy to her side, frowning at Mornherald. "Yes." She agrees, gathering her own thoughts. "You don't- have to be involved in this mess. I'm sorry to-..." she trails off. "It's..." she's kind of at a loss. She rubs her other hand on her face
3/3 03:31:28.781 Pollution | Benny stumbles slightly as he's pulled to Tezzy's side. Tripping over his own fleshless feet. All of his motions are fumbling, like a sleepwalker.
3/3 03:31:38.656 Mornherald says: ... Mess? A boy tired of control-using father decided to... to "strike off on one's own," yes?
3/3 03:32:09.265 Mornherald gives Tezzy a tiiiired smile. Well, yes, technically he 'decided' to follow the strange death knight who promised candy, but...
3/3 03:33:46.390 Tezzy laughs under her breath, only slightly hysterical. "Right." She nods once, sitting down with a flump. "Are you allright?" She asks Morn, though she's looking Benny over. "Poor thing needs some clothes." The idea that he's Not There is too awful to think about
3/3 03:34:39.609 Mornherald slowly sinks to the ground, too, letting his head hang a second, though he raises it, still smiling weakly. "Just tired. It is not my specialty."
3/3 03:35:13.437 Mornherald looks... vaguely troubled by Tezzy's words about clothes, though. He licks his lips nervously before piping up: "... Usually, they do not have a... much of a modesty."
3/3 03:36:09.140 Tezzy nods slowly, but snaps at Morn's words. "He's a PERSON, Mornherald. He's not a man's skeleton puppet."
3/3 03:37:36.328 Tezzy adds quietly. "He beat him, Morn... terribly, and for -nothing-. For NOTHING."
3/3 03:38:02.296 Tezzy is talking about the other one, actually. Oops.
3/3 03:38:20.687 Mornherald closes his eyes, sighs heavily, then reopens them and gives Tezzy a sad, exhausted, but also firmly skeptical look. "... You think," he starts, quiet tone, "that trick works on... type of you and me," he gestures.
3/3 03:38:26.875 Mornherald says: I would do all my shopping business in Undercity if it were true.
3/3 03:38:55.406 Mornherald then closes his eyes again and hangs his head, no playfulness in the joke. His expression is very unhappy.
3/3 03:39:36.187 Tezzy is still getting her hate on! She only half-followed Morn's words anyway. She offers half of a smile. "Right. Why were you there, then?"
3/3 03:40:35.484 Mornherald d-doesn't like that question, eyes opening and shooting to the side; he shifts in his seat uncomfortably. "To buy supplies," he answers vaguely.
3/3 03:41:38.812 Tezzy hmns, eyes darting to mute Benny regularly. "Supplies?" she prompts, not knowing it was an evasion.
3/3 03:42:19.781 Mornherald says: Silver, uh, Silvermoon does not have all things a gentlemen of my persuasion needs...
3/3 03:42:25.125 Mornherald coughs out a nervous laugh.
3/3 03:42:34.671 Tezzy narrows her eyes. What does that even mean? "Huh?"
3/3 03:44:03.703 Mornherald flashes Tezzy a too-wide smile. ... a bit of black on his teeth, perhaps from that earlier coughing. "Silvermoon caters to the living."
3/3 03:44:40.578 Tezzy shakes her head. "Oh right, of course, I'm sorry." Her look is honestly apologetic.
3/3 03:45:33.328 Mornherald doesn't look at all offended, shrugging and waving a hand loosely. His gaze slowly wanders over to Benny.
3/3 03:45:35.515 Tezzy gives little Benedict a baleful look. "I'm sorry about your father-," she starts. "I- I don't know how to explain..."
3/3 03:46:31.187 Pollution | Benny seems unresponsive. There's a moment where he shifts, maybe? The brief grind of teeth, the listless working of a jaw. But nothing beyond that.
3/3 03:46:53.609 Mornherald says: ... Dumb father, to drive the son remaining to lonely death after the loss of the first.
3/3 03:47:08.187 Mornherald scowls, shoulders hunching, looking sulky.
3/3 03:47:58.968 Tezzy glances to Morn, realizing how much of that he heard. "Yes." she says, looking down. "I-... Light he worried he wasn't even all here- how..." she gives Morn a pitiful frown. "How do these things work?"
3/3 03:48:43.734 Mornherald ... looks back to Tezzy slowly, blinking twice. Stupidly uncomprehending expression to convey the unvoiced 'Huh?' to her.
3/3 03:49:24.859 Tezzy says: Raising-? I don't know how you raise up a person.
3/3 03:49:51.562 Mornherald says: ... How little ghouls are made?
3/3 03:49:58.781 Mornherald looks at Tezzy flatly.
3/3 03:50:03.062 Tezzy says: Light, what if he's- Benny, don't be dead. Please...
3/3 03:50:29.750 Tezzy sounds pretty pitiful. Though the request's words are flat nonsense. "Yes, ghouls..."
3/3 03:51:14.843 Pollution | Benny twitches. The scrape of bones as limbs slightly jerk, but it may be just spasmodic. Maybe in response to his name? It's hard to say.
3/3 03:51:15.125 Mornherald says: ... Wrong knight to ask. This one always saying that 'ghouls are only good for death paaaaaammmmnnngh.'
3/3 03:51:23.046 Mornherald ... realizes maybe he SHOULD NOT SAY THAT.
3/3 03:51:37.953 Tezzy says: Paaa-?
3/3 03:51:52.000 Tezzy doesn't know much about deathknights!
3/3 03:52:00.640 Mornherald coughs and shakes his head, shrugging nervously. "Er, hehe, a joke from Acherus." Vagueity vague!
3/3 03:52:51.421 Mornherald licks his lips, ears pressing back. "But I..." he changes tones, voice getting softer, gentler. "... I... do not think... You know, ..."
3/3 03:53:02.625 Mornherald says: ... A knight cannot command Forsaken in that manner.
3/3 03:53:09.859 Tezzy sobers. "O-of course. I... I need to write a letter. I- how... hn?" She listens to what Morny has to say.
3/3 03:53:14.531 Mornherald gives Tezzy a very sad and apologetic look.
3/3 03:53:26.203 Tezzy says: I'm sorry, you'll have to explain...
3/3 03:53:35.703 Tezzy looks apologetic! Knight things.
3/3 03:54:35.375 Mornherald says: ... If I can command i... him, in that way, he... unlikely to have any strong will.
3/3 03:55:20.218 Mornherald lowers his head a little, ears going back further; please, let him be able to dance around this instead of saying it outright.
3/3 03:55:54.718 Tezzy looks at Benny, piecing together what this means. "Don't-" she holds up a 'stop' hand even though Morny isn't about to death pact little Benny. "It's not... I can't choose that."
3/3 03:56:44.390 Mornherald stops talking, chin tucking in even more, as much as his collar will allow. But he still keeps his eyes on Tezzy, apologetic, yes, but serious.
3/3 03:57:25.687 Tezzy looks at Morn, her face a flat
She has to ask. "How...alive... are they?" the ones a Knight can command in that way.
3/3 03:57:55.406 Tezzy still scans Benny's face and frame for signs of personhood.
3/3 03:58:05.296 Mornherald looks back at Tezzy, not quite as flat, restrained sadness showing. "Awake?" he asks, to clarify.
3/3 03:58:39.046 Tezzy nods.
3/3 03:59:05.437 Mornherald looks at Benny consideringly... then back to Tezzy. He chews his lip a moment, then murmurs to her, "I will not do anything, I promise."
3/3 03:59:51.453 Mornherald then looks at Benny, gaze gradually getting sharper. ... And then, a sharp movement, like the very first twitch of an arm coming up to deliver a blow, at the same time he shoots intensely irritated thoughts at the little skeleton-boy.
3/3 03:59:55.921 Mornherald glares angrily at Benedict.
3/3 04:00:09.593 Tezzy turns fierce eyes on Morny! He better not!
3/3 04:00:58.593 Pollution | Benny...does nothing. There's another twitch, like the shudder of someone asleep. A quiet rasp. But no flinch. No recoiling. Not even striking back in animal, defensive reflex.
3/3 04:01:59.453 Mornherald ... gradually leans back in his seat, pretense of anger evaporating. He makes a soothing gesture at Benny, out of habit; doesn't look like the kid really care much either way.
3/3 04:02:00.484 Tezzy makes an instinctive shielding motion with a hand, didn't Morn hear that Josef was a beating-ass child beater! Her face falls and her gesture fails when Benny stands stock still. She looks profoundly sad.
3/3 04:02:19.453 Mornherald glances at Tezzy, deep apology in his expression.
3/3 04:02:22.500 Tezzy says: ...What am I going to do.
3/3 04:02:56.281 Tezzy says: His...
3/3 04:03:22.484 Tezzy says: His brother lives. Campion's second son.
3/3 04:03:36.828 Tezzy said that pretty quietly.
3/3 04:04:23.015 Mornherald picks it up, though, ears flicking towards Tezzy; he leans forward a little bit. "... Then perhaps it is up to family, how remains are to be...?"
3/3 04:06:52.703 Tezzy looks Benedict over, hands helpless in her lap. It's more grotesque and twisted the more she thinks about it. "I should have killed him." the sentiment is weary, though.
3/3 04:07:41.375 Tezzy says: Will the boy... Come with me? I mean, he stayed with-.
3/3 04:08:12.968 Tezzy thinks there might still be some special snowflake DK thing going on here.
3/3 04:09:05.546 Mornherald blinks at Tezzy, as if he didn't quite understand her first statement -- but he doesn't pry. "I do not know," he answers her question. "I do not know what type of necromancy created. Although it obeyed me."
3/3 04:09:25.765 Tezzy says: Tiddia.
3/3 04:09:35.093 Tezzy says: A death knight raised him.
3/3 04:09:42.343 Tezzy states these facts without much affect.
3/3 04:09:55.187 Tezzy says: She worked for the Blade, in Icecrown.
3/3 04:10:30.046 Tezzy says: She made ghouls out of-.
3/3 04:10:37.875 Tezzy laughs. It's not funny.
3/3 04:11:22.609 Mornherald frowns at Tezzy, brow furrowing as if he is... searching his memory for something. Whatever it was, though, he doesn't find it, and shakes his head a little to clear it. "... I have not heard of ghouls attached to others than master..."
3/3 04:11:33.875 Tezzy buries her face in her skeletal hands.
3/3 04:11:54.531 Tezzy says: ...Right.
3/3 04:12:27.406 Mornherald blinks at Tezzy, leaning in towards her just slightly, expression concerned -- and totally oblivious to whatever could have caused that reaction. Did he say something unusual?
3/3 04:14:06.890 Tezzy says: Well, this one obviously...
3/3 04:14:15.937 Tezzy says: I mean.
3/3 04:14:24.140 Mornherald nods slowly, leaning back, expression thoughtful.
3/3 04:14:35.062 Tezzy addresses the boy. "You're no -ghoul-." She says the word with distaste.
3/3 04:15:12.765 Mornherald gives Tezzy a half-sympathetic, half-tired look. ... Yes, he is, Miss Tezzy.
3/3 04:15:26.390 Mornherald says: ... My immediate superior is a specialist in the unholy arts. I could inquire to him. ... Sir Larkspur Plagueheart.
3/3 04:15:38.093 Mornherald pronounces the name with a touch of reverence. ... Just a touch, though.
3/3 04:16:08.500 Tezzy looks away. Secrets are hard to keep! "Let me write... He's not goin' anywhere."
3/3 04:16:19.859 Mornherald says: ... Hopeful.
3/3 04:16:26.828 Tezzy says: Can you? I mean, it's hardly a military matter.
3/3 04:16:26.828 Mornherald eyes Benny worriedly.
3/3 04:16:36.750 Tezzy is just a little defensive.
3/3 04:16:41.500 Tezzy protects her Campions.
3/3 04:16:49.781 Mornherald says: ... I mean, to ask him of the...
3/3 04:16:51.968 Mornherald gesticulates!
3/3 04:16:56.484 Mornherald says: This type of situation, how, why.
3/3 04:17:10.671 Tezzy nods. "Right. Well. Yes, I suppose."
3/3 04:17:11.281 Mornherald says: Not to tell him about my new child with Miss Winchel.
3/3 04:17:45.593 Tezzy laughs! She nods, a bit of a smirk. "Right, I just- I don't want him gettin' destroyed cos some committee decides."
3/3 04:18:12.843 Tezzy doesn't really know what else to DO with him, but she's not gonna decide that.
3/3 04:19:04.015 Mornherald nods understanding, although there is still a faint, faint trace of exasperation in his expression. "I ask purely hypothetical question."
3/3 04:19:16.984 Tezzy nods slowly. "Of course. Thank you."
3/3 04:19:31.375 Mornherald says: ... Sir Lar-- Sir Plagueheart is also a good man. And he respects wishes of family for remains.
3/3 04:19:49.671 Mornherald seems to TOTALLY disregard that they just ripped this kid out of his father's arms.
3/3 04:20:29.015 Mornherald says: Still, I ask hypotheticals.
3/3 04:20:40.671 Tezzy smiles a little. "Lark- Sir Plagueheart-" she realizes she knows this name and nods. "Of course." Tezzy is glad Morny is taking her word that Josef is an awful awful man.
3/3 04:22:02.453 Mornherald says: We want to ask... what things?
3/3 04:22:12.437 Tezzy says: What things?
3/3 04:22:44.562 Mornherald says: Can it be taught to follow you if his brother decides that is good... if it can get more awakeness....
3/3 04:22:49.000 Mornherald gestures. What sorts of questions?
3/3 04:23:27.406 Tezzy says: It- that's possible? I ... Light- even if he's a proper Forsaken, he- he's TWELVE, Morn.
3/3 04:23:43.531 Tezzy says: Or... Forty-something. It's all wrong.
3/3 04:23:50.203 You frown with disappointment at Mornherald.
3/3 04:23:55.625 Mornherald waves his hands! "I do not know! They are questions to ask Sir Plagueheart."
3/3 04:24:15.140 Mornherald says: But... Miss Tezzy...
3/3 04:24:24.843 Tezzy nods, much more agreeable finally. "Right....hm?"
3/3 04:24:30.562 Mornherald ... looks from Benny to Tezzy, head falling again, ears drooping.
3/3 04:24:36.375 Mornherald says: I am not hopeful of much.
3/3 04:25:07.031 Tezzy nods. "It's-" she grimaces. "Probably better he..." she forces a smile. "Goes back to his rest, so to speak."
3/3 04:25:40.015 Mornherald ... makes a noncommital gesture. "You will write to his brother..." he murmurs. It's not their place to decide.
3/3 04:26:50.796 Tezzy nods. "I will. I'll - I should get to that right away. Goblin extra-express, or something." Another smile she doesn't mean, as she stands.
3/3 04:27:56.140 Mornherald slowly pushes up to his feet, too, glancing at Benny, then at Tezzy. "... It will be kept safe meanwhile?" he asks.
3/3 04:28:10.015 Tezzy says: I'll keep him safe.
3/3 04:28:35.437 Tezzy says: Thank you- I hope...Everything is allright with you? I mean- otherwise.
3/3 04:28:47.515 Tezzy makes a vague gesture that could mean pretty much anything.
3/3 04:28:55.281 Mornherald nods to Tezzy; he certainly doesn't look (or maybe want to look?) like he doubts Tezzy's ability, if she says she can. Though in reply to that question, his ears go back a little.
3/3 04:29:27.562 Mornherald says: All is fine... You did receive-- DID you receive my letter?
3/3 04:29:35.000 Mornherald corrects his Orcish midsentence.
3/3 04:30:02.453 Tezzy says: I did, so I'm worried - now that I'm thinking about it - about Mr. Haken as well.
3/3 04:30:16.109 Tezzy has pieced this situation together from hearsay.
3/3 04:30:51.750 Mornherald looks away, a deeply guilty smile blooming on his face, ears going back even more. "Mmh, Haken... is not well. ... Difficult things happened to him."
3/3 04:31:30.187 Tezzy nods sympathetically. "Mnh."
3/3 04:31:56.703 Tezzy is happy to hear any elaboration!
3/3 04:32:21.843 Mornherald tries to perk up! "He is better each day... More like his old Haken. Or, better, a better-behaving Haken."
3/3 04:32:37.281 Tezzy says: Well that's something.
3/3 04:32:43.593 Tezzy 's brave little soldier face is sincere!
3/3 04:33:11.125 Mornherald says: I think he will take time and care, but... he will be fine with time.
3/3 04:33:15.718 Tezzy says: What- may I ask what happened?
3/3 04:33:30.359 Tezzy wouldn't usually venture to pry, but Morn just saw her WHOLE DRAMA unfold.
3/3 04:33:40.328 Mornherald looks away again, smile dimming, anxiety and sadness rushing in. He shifts his weight.
3/3 04:33:51.375 Mornherald says: ... Haken is... um.
3/3 04:34:10.609 Tezzy looks innocently curious.
3/3 04:34:14.640 Mornherald says: He does not remember his life. ... He has one year, maybe two.
3/3 04:34:23.531 Mornherald glances at Tezzy. She following?
3/3 04:34:31.312 Tezzy nods. That's common enough.
3/3 04:34:41.812 Tezzy says: Mn-hm.
3/3 04:35:03.125 Mornherald says: And... it happened that, ... his child's-innocence was... s-spoiled.
3/3 04:35:24.203 Tezzy browfurrows a little bit at Morn's orcish, but she's listening!
3/3 04:35:28.468 Mornherald is probably conveying exactly who did that 'spoiling,' too, with his very uncomfortable posture and stuttering.
3/3 04:35:43.093 Mornherald says: ... He lost his child's-faith.
3/3 04:36:13.343 Tezzy ...doesn't follow, but it sounds pretty bad. She nods anyway, she's nothing if not polite!
3/3 04:37:12.578 Mornherald tilts his gaze up to the sky... turning a bit to face the northwest. ... Traces of loss and sadness in his face, along with the guilt.
3/3 04:37:16.421 Mornherald says: His god died...
3/3 04:37:26.218 Mornherald says: ... and he became an Ebon Blade.
3/3 04:37:37.015 Mornherald glances sideways at Tezzy, expression serious.
3/3 04:38:52.046 Tezzy is coming to SOME kind of conclusion, but it's not the right one. She nods understanding. "Mnn, well." a twitch of the lips that's hardly her usual chin-up smirk. "if you say he's getting better, I'm hopeful."
3/3 04:40:46.140 Mornherald nods. Whether he thinks Tezzy got it right, or if he just doesn't want to push the matter, it's unclear. "... But, he gets great, um..." ... 'separation anxiety' is not a dignified term to apply to death knights... "... worried if I am away from him."
3/3 04:41:13.578 Mornherald says: So perhaps I return before he becomes very worried.
3/3 04:41:44.640 Mornherald is looking rather worried himself, now that the topic's come to mind.
3/3 04:42:25.015 Tezzy nods, wincing a little. "Sorry to keep you, then- this..." she gestures around, but maybe it isn't worth explaining. "Of course, thank you for your help."
3/3 04:42:40.656 Tezzy says: And for contacting Sir Plagueheart.
3/3 04:42:44.312 Mornherald makes a little gesture to dismiss her thanks.
3/3 04:43:00.437 Mornherald says: I will not forget.
3/3 04:43:01.703 Mornherald says: ... I can make arrangements to chat with we two also, and to keep him safe alone. Tomorrow? Another day? ... If you are still interested in that?
3/3 04:43:25.281 Tezzy says: Tomorrow, of course. In Brill?
3/3 04:43:41.812 Mornherald says: Brill is easy. I will see you then.
3/3 04:44:02.421 Tezzy nods again, with a bit of a smile. "Yes. See you then."
3/3 04:44:06.796 Mornherald steps back, makes a good effort a smiling, then clicks his heels and bows slightly from the waist. "Then, suffer well."
3/3 04:44:25.890 Mornherald then gets to scanning the area... and decides that it's acceptable to plop a death gate down right here.
3/3 04:44:45.125 Tezzy would agree! There used to be a really wicked fort right there.
3/3 04:44:59.500 Mornherald eyes Benny briefly.
3/3 04:45:02.031 Mornherald waves at you.
3/3 00:48:22.984 Josef seems distracted by the small skeleton in his company. He's in the middle of having a conversation with it? Mumbled and laughing, hardly audible. He looks at the little bone-creature fondly as he speaks.
3/3 00:48:24.125 Tezzy ...belatedly notes the lack of cockroaches.
3/3 00:48:38.390 Josef looks up sharply when another addresses him. "Whoozat!?"
3/3 00:50:00.359 Tezzy "Oh, nobod-" She recognizes the burnt and rotten Campion when he looks up. Her face is ...shocked. Horror is a state of mind, not a reflex anymore. "Um-"
3/3 00:50:30.078 Tezzy rubs the back of her neck, picking up the few spilled things. Oh god, what now.
3/3 00:50:47.453 Josef says: Ahgh! You! I remember YOU! Little dead lady in Brill! Had the nerve to accost a poor, downtrodden old man, wasn't it!
3/3 00:51:27.125 Tezzy nearly panics. "A-accost?"
3/3 00:52:09.984 Tezzy says: I don't- know what you're talking about.
3/3 00:52:31.953 Josef makes a harsh sound in his throat. "Eegggh. Neither here nor there. Neither here nor there, never you mind."
3/3 00:53:32.296 Josef says: Had some DAFT things to say about those red wolves up on the hill looking over our city, you did! Lucky you didn't get some sense knocked into your head flat out for such things!
3/3 00:54:09.265 Tezzy 's mouth drops a little. "I- eheh. Right, lucky, that."
3/3 00:55:16.640 Tezzy nods slowly. "Right. ...Is that, I'm sorry - Is that...?" She can't bring herself to say it, but she gestures at the little skeleton.
3/3 00:56:37.984 Josef follows her gestures, and he gets that fond look on his face again as the skeleton looks back up at him with hollow sockets.
3/3 00:56:53.000 Josef says: Ahh, this is my boy. My son. This here is my Benny.
3/3 00:58:06.234 Tezzy addresses the little boy with a nod. "I've heard about you." She searches his hollow-socketed face.
3/3 00:59:04.437 Josef smiles a snaggle-toothed grin at the skeleton, and he gives it a gentle nudge. It just shifts with the motion. "Go on, lady's talking to you. You be polite, you do like your old man taught you."
3/3 00:59:27.984 You kneel down.
3/3 01:00:06.234 Josef continues to smile as the little skeleton turns to look towards Tezzy and gives a jerky nod, its jaw going slack briefly before clacking shut again. There's the faintest of a rasp, the only vocalization it's capable of with whatever necromancy fuels it.
3/3 01:00:44.046 Josef says: Aye, he's a polite boy. Knows how to keep his manners, mind his father. Such a good boy.
3/3 01:01:50.718 Tezzy watches Josef from the corner of her eye, smiling shyly at the child skeleton. "Hello." she says, seriously, with a little wave. "I knew your-" she amends quickly, "family, alive." She purses her lips over the boy's head at the father. She doesn't trust him one bit.
3/3 01:03:38.640 Josef looks at Tezzy sharply, frowning. (The expression is eeriely familiar.) "Ehh? Whozzat?" The little skeleton seems to go a little rigid as Josef's tone gets stern.
3/3 01:05:07.781 Tezzy tilts her head at Josef. "Ah, nobody you'd remember." She taps the little boy's collarbone gently, a tiny affectionate gesture. He's really quite creepy, poor thing.
3/3 01:05:23.796 Tezzy doesn't really think that's gonna fly, but she's trying.
3/3 01:06:49.812 Josef says: Rubbish. Brill was a small place! Still is! Or Andorhal, mayhaps. Stratholme? Did business there in my time.
3/3 01:07:54.156 Josef continues to scrutenize Tezzy with narrowed, glowing eyes, trying to figure if he recognizes her or not. The little boy skeleton eventually jerkily totters back towards his undead parent, sitting close with a clatter.
3/3 01:09:28.250 Tezzy smiles a forced smile, watching the boy return to his parent. She weighs the pros and cons of honesty, for longer than probably is necessary. She stands, dusting nothing off her legplates.
3/3 01:09:38.781 Tezzy says: Mn.. Valerii Winchel's orphan, you knew her?
3/3 01:09:43.453 Tezzy smirks a little.
3/3 01:10:18.296 Josef says: Ahh, I do. The apothacary woman's little trollop. Sorry, sick little thing she was.
3/3 01:10:33.062 Josef apparently hasn't made the connection.
3/3 01:10:52.171 Tezzy grits her teeth, "Wh-?" She FROWNS, though.
3/3 01:11:05.140 Tezzy 's face is pretty recognizable, unless Josef has some serious beer goggles.
3/3 01:11:51.781 Tezzy looks like she's got something sour in her mouth. "She was no such thing, sir."
3/3 01:11:52.203 Josef just fosters a severe disconnect from reality at all times. He picks a claw at a leathery patch of burn scars on his cheek, rasping to himself as he thinks back.
3/3 01:12:54.468 Josef says: Sorry thing! I stand by it! Miserable and sickly! Sad thing. Sad. Only made worse by THAT one always banging about, dragging her places, sneaking into her house. Bahhh! She was bad off enough as is, she didn't need the brat tormenting her.
3/3 01:14:46.046 Tezzy frowns at the slime waterfall, for lack of a better place to frown. "Eh- I... I meant." She rolls her eyes. What an idiot. "The name's Tatiana, sir, and it was no torment." Lies hasn't solved one of her problems yet, so lets try some honesty.
3/3 01:14:56.546 Tezzy crosses her arms, though. No handshake for Josef.
3/3 01:15:19.968 Josef says: Ahh! You! It's-...It's you, is it! YOU'RE the girl! Well!
3/3 01:15:45.859 Josef squints at her, then barks a wheezing laugh. "By the LIGHT, what a world it is! That even you end up here with the rest of us!"
3/3 01:16:42.484 Tezzy smirks. He's an awful bastard but a link to her past nonetheless. "Even me. How, uh. How are things, then, the two of you alone?"
3/3 01:16:55.750 Tezzy sidles a little.
3/3 01:18:03.500 Josef says: Splendid! Right splendid, they are. I've got my boy back! It's all I've ever wanted out of life. I'm content, I am.
3/3 01:18:33.109 Josef pats a hand on top of Benny's skull. The skeleton rasps, dropping its jaw again before clacking shut once more.
3/3 01:19:24.156 Tezzy 's feeling a little combative. "It's hardly teaching your boy good manners, saying like you did about a lady. I'd appreciate an apology."
3/3 01:20:51.562 Josef says: Ah! I meant no offense, so don't you take any. Felt sorry for you, I did! Sickabed the better part of the time, and having THAT one inflicted on you? Ehh, dreadful, that!
3/3 01:21:42.828 Josef rasps in the back of his throat, which escalates into a wet, rattling cough. When it subsides, he chokes out, "Put the fear of the Light into that one for it, I did. Shouldn't go about, tormenting the sick, he shouldn't."
3/3 01:23:07.140 Tezzy narrows her eyes. What crazytown world does this fellow live in. "Mn." she neither agrees nor disagrees. "You-?" This never got back to her! "That was-" She looks away, frowning fiercely. "You shouldn't have done that."
3/3 01:24:44.953 Josef looks confused, furrowing his brow. "Ehh? Done what."
3/3 01:27:44.968 Tezzy can't articulate 'beat your child' because she just can't. "He- I didn't have anyone else, he was a good friend." She sort of knows she just jumped off a cliff there but it needed to be said. "He feared the Light quite enough for both of us." When she glances back, she looks at the skeletal boy.
3/3 01:29:04.640 Josef says: HAH! Oh, don't you try and play it down, I know how it was. I know, and you rest easy, cuz Josef took care of it. That one was TROUBLE, make no mistake about it! Nothing but pestering and trouble and bad ideas!
3/3 01:29:43.781 Zephurial bestows a simple blessing.
3/3 01:30:52.968 Josef nods in thanks. Heck yes, blessings. He mumbles as he goes on. "Aye, I know how that one was. If I'm going to apolgize for ANYTHING, it'll be THAT little monster having to bother you like he did."
3/3 01:31:22.718 Josef says: He was out of line, he was.
3/3 01:31:50.640 Tezzy shakes her head, baring her teeth in an unhappy frown. "I... well." Oh Light, more talking. She looks completely appalled. "I don't think- Mr. Campion, I don't think you and I are gonna see eye to eye here."
3/3 01:32:14.406 Tezzy says: Tell me about Benedict?
3/3 01:32:31.265 Tezzy tries unsuccessfully to force even the fakest of smiles. She'll investigate this.
3/3 01:32:59.000 Josef grins! Oh! A good topic! "Ahh, what do you want to know? He's a good boy, he is. He's my GOOD son. Nothing like the other one, he was."
3/3 01:33:31.578 Tezzy says: How, uh. Did- how were the two of you reunited?
3/3 01:34:32.593 Josef says: Ahh! Tiddia, that angel. Was her doing, it was. She came to me, and talked to me, and I told her how I missed Benny so. And she comes with me to where he was put to rest, and she brings him back to me!
3/3 01:34:53.656 Josef pats the skeleton's skull fondly again.
3/3 01:34:59.015 Tezzy 8[!
3/3 01:35:09.343 Tezzy says: T-tiddia?
3/3 01:35:29.890 Tezzy 's jaw is hanging a little. Sometimes the world is small in awful ways.
3/3 01:35:49.718 Josef says: Aye, that's the one. Asked me later to call her 'Ronch'. Hardly a suitable name for one as saintly as her, but whatever she asks of me, I do it gladly. She gave me back my boy! My son!
3/3 01:37:18.593 Tezzy 's smirk is utterly humorless. "Right." A question's in her eyes, as she gazes at the former Josef Campion, but she wants to spare the little boy. "Are you going to be an apothecary like your father?" she asks the skeleton, gently.
3/3 01:37:35.375 Tezzy | because a-paladin-like-your-brother isn't really an available career option.
3/3 01:38:21.062 Josef butts in regardless. "He's going to stay with me. I'm keeping him safe from here on out." That had is resting on Benny's skull now, posessively.
3/3 01:38:54.984 Tezzy says: Isn't that... A little odd?
3/3 01:39:05.640 Tezzy says: I mean, don't you-.
3/3 01:39:12.390 Josef says: Odd? A father's love and protection is ODD to you?
3/3 01:40:09.859 Tezzy glances from father to son. "Mr. Campion-" shaking that honorific is hard!
3/3 01:40:33.234 Tezzy says: It- ehh... I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, Mr. Campion.
3/3 01:40:38.671 Tezzy frowns. Except maybe you.
3/3 01:42:16.718 Josef frowns up at the woman, narrowing his eyes. "What do you think you're saying." His tone has taken a turn for the threateningly defensive.
3/3 01:44:36.578 Tezzy frowns, "I'm saying- I'm saying I wouldn't wish it on a child. Who's never gonna grow up. Never gonna live a real life, sir, I'm sorry, it-" She looks apologetically at the little boy skeleton. "It doesn't seem right to me."
3/3 01:44:57.890 Tezzy is standing her ground! She's obviously got quite the grudge on Joey C.
3/3 01:45:38.562 Josef says: Achh! You stay away! You'll not take him! You'll not take my boy! This is my son, my only son, and you'll not deprive me of him again!
3/3 01:45:57.062 Josef immediately yanks the little skeleton close to him and takes a clawed SWIPE at Tezzy, growling.
3/3 01:47:33.843 Tezzy hops back a step from the swipe, frowning. "I'm not takin' anybody." she says to the man, though her eyes at the boy are apologetic. Now she really wants to. "Calm down, Light." her voice is vaguely scolding.
3/3 01:48:43.671 Josef says: You don't know! You wouldn't know, you harpy! You nag! You wouldn't know what it's like to lose a son! I'll not let it happen again! You'll not take my only son from me now that I've got him back!
3/3 01:50:12.046 Mornherald stumbles along the stones, scattered coughs gradually clumping together; by the time he come to the little overhang, he's worked up to a hacking fit. He rummages in his bag to pull out a handkerchief -- a fetching lavender one! and hold it to his mouth.
3/3 01:50:29.531 Mornherald ducks under the bridge, apparently blind enough not to notice the Forsaken he may be about to expectorate on.
3/3 01:51:02.968 Josef growls at the SECOND interloper present now, still clutching the child-sized skeleton to him.
3/3 01:51:10.156 Tezzy frowns, looking away again. "No, I don't know that, sir." Her gaze catches on Mornherald. This is why she doesn't come to the Undercity. WHAT DO I DO NOW says her face.
3/3 01:51:57.218 Tezzy is too busy being ANGRY and SAD to offer Mornherald any help.
3/3 01:52:12.953 Josef turns his attention back to Tezzy, still snarling. "This is a DAMN fine life, I'll have you KNOW! I've got my son, my GOOD son, alive and back with me, and the BAD one, the WORTHLESS one, is dead! This is how it SHOULD be, it is!"
3/3 01:53:26.640 Tezzy raises her voice to shout him down almost as soon as he speaks. "It is NOT that. It is NOT fine. What is WRONG with you!?"
3/3 01:52:42.062 Mornherald doesn't pay either of them any mind, crashing plated shoulder-first into the wall and making very uncomfortable noises into his hanky. A few seconds of that and then he slumps, head hanging exhaustedly.
3/3 01:53:50.812 Josef only spares another scowling glance at the elf when he draws nearer, clutching Benny even tighter.
3/3 01:54:24.062 Tezzy scowwwls, but gives Morn a level look. You okay, bro?
3/3 01:55:45.250 Josef looks dartingly between the two, snaggle-teeth bared. He's looking more and more like a crazed, cornered animal.
3/3 01:55:58.500 Mornherald gradually straightens, folding up the hanky and making a face. A few lich-blue blinks visible beneath the shadow of his hood as he makes an awkward glance between the gentleman and his skeleton and... Blink. "Miss Te--" he starts hoarsely, but stops.
3/3 01:56:30.437 Tezzy is concerned when she doesn't get a shouting response from Josef. "...What."
3/3 01:56:35.250 Mornherald looks between the two of them again, ears flicking back, shoulders hunching a little. Maybe not something he should just fling himself into...
3/3 01:57:35.218 Josef says: Not a DAMN thing wrong here. How it's supposed to be, it is! Good son's back, the bad son's dead! That's RIGHT! That's as it is and how it should be and how it'll STAY!
3/3 01:58:34.078 Josef doesn't seem to care for being surrounded, as it were. Even as he spits his words, he continues darting glares between Mornherald and Tezzy.
3/3 01:59:23.687 Tezzy 's eyes widen at the realization. "Your boy's a person, not a toy, Mr. Campion." Light, she hopes so.
3/3 02:00:21.843 Tezzy says: Though I suppose that's just the Winter's Veil present you wanted, wasn't it.
3/3 02:00:32.328 Tezzy jumps back and forth between things ICly too.
3/3 02:02:06.875 Josef wrinkles his nose, snarling at Tezzy exclusively now. "He's my BOY, and I'm not losing him again! You just try! And aye, AYE! Twas a nice thing to get in the post, it was. News that that BASTARD, that WHELP, was gone forever!? Pah! World's better for it!"
3/3 02:02:57.546 Mornherald wipes some gray dribble from his nose and returns Josef's glare with a little shrinking back, free hand raising a bit in an appeasing don't-bite-me! gesture. ... But he then looks long at Tezzy, reaching up to push his hood back.
3/3 02:03:30.953 Tezzy sneers something awful. She doesn't even know what to do, except that making a move at Josef would be irreversable. She turns her attention on Morny. "...You allright over there?" An abrupt change of tone and subject to be sure.
3/3 02:04:38.078 Josef hunches up, shrinking a bit, clutching posessively still at the little skeleton, now stooped a bit over it. Eyes continue to dart back and forth distrustingly.
3/3 02:04:39.593 Mornherald looks at Tezzy; "Fine. ... Allergies." ... Was that a crack? In any case, he gives Tezzy a questioning look, one long eyebrow raised, with one more glance towards Josef, head cocked a little towards him. His expression is a little concerned; everything OK
3/3 02:04:51.312 Mornherald ...?
3/3 02:05:30.000 Tezzy gives Josef a look of bald contempt. "Just meeting old family friends."
3/3 02:08:08.156 Mornherald sniffs daintily as he tucks the handkerchief away, peering at Josef, though his posture and ears are still back, not too curious or pressuring. "Friends," he murmurs, and looks up at Tezzy again.
3/3 02:08:40.125 Josef is still very much not in a friendly posture. He glares venomously at Mornherald. Yeah, you just TRY something, buddy.
3/3 02:10:19.765 Tezzy doesn't really mean to deputize Morny into this fight but she needs Josef's crimes aired to someone. "Josef Campion, and his son Benedict." She glances down at the pitiful pair, at this venomous introduction. "Benny died before I came to Brill." she explains, hoping Morn will piece together the awful peices himself.
3/3 02:11:22.203 Josef makes a choked sound, perhaps something out of shock or sudden sadness, and a clawed hand rests on Benny's skull again. Reminders of his 'only' son's death are sad, sad things.
3/3 02:12:31.921 Mornherald looks back down at Josef and child, long brow becoming a troubled, crinkled line. "... Pleasure," he murmurs, though it doesn't sound as if he means it at all. His eyes on the skeletal boy especially.
3/3 02:13:04.890 Tezzy says: ...So we never had the chance to meet.
3/3 02:14:01.328 Josef says: If you'd have known Benny, you'd know! You'd know PLENTY and in FULL what a monster the other one was! Benny here was a good boy, always listened. Always stayed out of trouble. Not like the OTHER one. Pah!
3/3 02:14:35.578 Josef mutters something VERY hateful about hoping this other son is enjoying those hellfires he so richly deserves.
3/3 02:15:08.953 Tezzy shakes her head no, almost instinctively. He's wrong! "You don't know what you're talking about." she says quietly, but the mutters get her goat. "That's a LIE!"
3/3 02:15:50.812 Mornherald chews the inside of his mouth and looks away, furrows in his brow deepening. When his eyes come back to Josef there's a deep frown there. On the other hand his body language remains backed and nonthreatening.
3/3 02:16:15.656 Josef says: Ehh!? You hush; you're saying a FATHER doesn't know his own boy? I knew that one better than anyone, I saw him for what a MONSTER he was!
3/3 02:20:34.703 Tezzy opens and closes her hands. She wants to do violence to this asshole. "You're no father! You were no father at all!"
3/3 02:21:21.421 Josef gapes at her, aghast! SHE'S raising her voice to HIM!?
3/3 02:22:45.531 Mornherald continues to studiously pose at being uninvolved. ... But, for some reason, he's still lurking around here, and observing them both keenly.
3/3 02:23:17.187 Tezzy is hardly ever bigger than anybody! She looks down her nose at Josef, pretty disgusted but not about to make the first move. Oh Light, Morny's still there. She looks up at him after Josef's well-deserved sneer.
3/3 02:23:49.578 Josef regards Mornherald as a non-entity at this point anyhow. Tezzy's the active THREAT here, and his attention span is a spotty thing anyhow.
3/3 02:27:43.031 Tezzy frowwwwns. "You aren't - you shouldn't be- You're the monster, Campion, and that child-" she almost rolls her eyes, if it's a proper living thing at all - "deserves better than you." She's kind of white knighting both brothers at once, somehow.
3/3 02:28:44.734 Josef sputters! "Ahch! How dare you! Bitch! I'll box some sense into you before you take him from me!" Oh dear, fighting words.
3/3 02:29:18.656 Mornherald is so very innocent. That he shifts his weight, adjusting his balance, at those particular words, is totally coincidental.
3/3 02:30:24.000 Tezzy isn't really frightened! She's strapped into plate armor, after all, and doesn't have any vitals to preserve. She takes a cautious half-step backward.
3/3 02:31:04.484 Tezzy says: You'll do nothing like that-.
3/3 02:31:34.406 Josef snarls at her, eyes bulging, his hold on that poor, wee skeleton an ironic death grip at this point. If Benny were a living, sentient(?) thing, he'd no doubt be in pain right now.
3/3 02:32:24.484 Josef says: Oh, but I will! You stay back, if you know what's right! You're putting your nose in places it doesn't belong, WOMAN!
3/3 02:32:31.312 Josef spits that last word like it's a vile insult.
3/3 02:32:54.515 Tezzy frowns at the chokehold Josef has on Benny. He's a skeleton but- the illusion of life is important sometimes. "Josef- Calm down, you're hurting him."
3/3 02:33:23.015 Josef says: BEGONE! YOU LEAVE ME BE!
3/3 02:34:45.078 Tezzy really wants to. This shouldn't be her problem! "I-" She glances away. "I can't. It's not right. It's not RIGHT." Her hand wanders to the hilt of an axe before she catches it. She's shaking her head no like a tic. Not right.
3/3 02:36:14.203 Mornherald isn't doing a thiiiing. Other than leaning slightly forward, watching Josef veeeery closely.
3/3 02:36:21.828 Josef has all but forgotten that Mornherald is there. He hisses at Tezzy like some kind of sick animal.
3/3 02:38:07.953 Tezzy 's expression is disgusted. She can't stand this. She steps forward, a restraining hand going for Josef's shoulder. She means to back him against the wall, and then what? She doesn't yet know.
3/3 02:39:53.750 Josef isn't hard to grab, OR hard to hold back. He's a frail, sorry thing and his shoulders thump against the wall behind him. He SCREECHES.
3/3 02:40:09.703 Josef says: YOU'LL NOT TOUCH ME, YOU BITCH!
3/3 02:40:53.828 Josef is torn between lashing out and clutching onto his son. In his frustrated rage, he SPITS at Tezzy in the meantime.
3/3 02:41:49.359 Tezzy whips her head around, the last thing she wants is a crowd on this man's side. "You shut up! You're a monster, a foul monster who was never human!" She winces at the spit, but keeps her death-granted vicegrip on Josef's shoulder.
3/3 02:43:51.640 Josef DOESN'T shut up! "You'll not take him! You'll kill me before you take my boy from me again! Go to hell! You go to hell, you harpy! Bitch!" He sputters insults in his absolute INSANE fury.
3/3 02:44:15.125 Mornherald continues to observe, although there is something a tad more... predatory, careful in the way he watches Tezzy, but Josef in particular. Doesn't seem like he's at all ruffled by the outburst.
3/3 02:46:52.875 Tezzy sputters herself! "I won't- I won't-" She seems like she'd rather like to, though. "She presses a forearm against his throat, pretty full of rage herself. She snarls, not finding the right words, all up in Josef's grill.
3/3 02:48:01.515 Josef RASPS when the boney arm is at his throat, and that's finally when he relents his hold on little Benny, clawed hands scrabbling out, scratching at whatever he can reach, scrabbling at armour, at her face if he can manage it.
3/3 02:49:54.062 Mornherald at that moment shifts all of his focus to Benny, staring intently at the skeleton. One arm tenses up, raising slightly -- he manages to hold it down rather than explicitly make the beckoning gesture it wants to. Relatively ghoul-impaired Jiel may be, but.
3/3 02:50:48.421 Mornherald thinks it's worth a try: with a look of intense concentration, mentally screaming at the small skeleton, like a hysterical dog owner with no confidence whatsoever at being able to control his tiny pooch: COME!
3/3 02:51:52.046 Tezzy aargh! Being properly attacked is something she knows how to respond to, though. She aims a strike at his face, a purely spiteful blow before she moves to restrain his arms.
3/3 02:52:41.968 Josef makes a hard, rattling GASP when the skeleton rattles out of his lap, clattering to the stone floor like it were yanked by a string. "KIDNAPPERS! MONSTERS! HELP! KIDN-" And that's when he takes a hard smack in the mouth, cutting off in a gurgle.
3/3 02:54:34.234 Josef struggles, of course, even as black ichor dribbles down his face. He glares nothing but pure HATE at Tezzy. Meanwhile, the little skeleton gets to its feet and sways. Staring in the direction of Mornherald. It trembles, as it uncertain what to do, or perhaps it's simply being pulled two ways by two opposing and equally loud wills.
3/3 02:55:09.906 Mornherald winces; that's not what he quite intended to do. But he tries to restore his concentration a second later; Coooomeee, enunciating the world carefully in his head, thinking words in Scourge; niiiice skelly, goooood skelly, come to me.
3/3 02:55:37.515 Tezzy is conflicted! "Shut UP!" she says again, though she raises her voice over Josef's to do so. "I want you to face JUSTICE, you ASSHOLE." She's trying to get a hold of him though he's scrabbling like a polecat, and she'e doesn't know what she'll do with him if she gets him.
3/3 02:55:40.328 Mornherald stares Benny down intently, lips parting a little, slightly blue-tinged breath hissing out gently through his teeth.
3/3 02:57:19.062 Josef burbles, black frothing at his lips. As he struggles, now focusing more on attacking Tezzy and trying to break free from her, the skeleton wobbles. Then totters. Then takes jerky, mechanical steps towards Mornherald.
3/3 03:00:43.046 Mornherald continues to concentrate intently on Benny, keeping his eyes fixed on the skeleton's empty sockets. ... And, at the same time, he forces his near arm to relax, soften, and turn palm-up, gauntleted hand offered gently. ...
3/3 03:01:08.265 Tezzy smashes a few more strikes at Josef's face, IT WORKED ONCE and she's just exorcizing frustrations, now. She aims a heavy-booted kick downward at one of Josef's legs.
3/3 03:01:37.968 Mornherald ... is expending so much effort on this, though, that the whole -rest- of his body is rigid, teeth quietly clenching.
3/3 03:03:11.921 Josef catches the motion out of the corner of his eye, the little skeleton's hesitant steps making him look sidelong. He screams again, right when Tezzy's hand smashes into his head again. And again. Again, he's cut to gurgling.
3/3 03:07:29.796 Tezzy maybe surfaces a little from Violence Land. "Shut up!" she offers. Not really giving big speeches today.
3/3 03:08:18.281 Josef does shut up. Well, for the most part. There's still hissing and gurgling, but he's out of it now. Too many blows to the head. Which seems to make Benny's walking to Mornherald that much less restrained. There's only ONE will tugging at him now.
3/3 03:09:50.734 Mornherald continues to hold intense concentration, tuning out all the screaming and violence. The offered hand extends a little more, a new barrage of mental whispers: Come. Take the hand. Come. Hurry.
3/3 03:10:44.765 Mornherald is perhaps recalling a different siren song he recently listened to, because he's beginning to find a bit more of his inner death knight voice, more confidently commanding, icy and compelling. The fingers twitch just a little; come, take it.
3/3 03:11:13.328 Josef | The little skeleton does so obediently. He does exactly as he's told, in fact. Approaches, takes Mornherald's hand, hurries. This might draw question into just how much free will the little pile of bones is capable of.
3/3 03:12:13.671 Tezzy gives the little skelly a frantic glance when Josef goes a little dull-eyed. She doesn't have time for second thoughts. "Oh Light, come on-" She gives Morny a patented Oh Shit What Now face, shoving Josef roughly against the wall, letting him slide down,
3/3 03:12:49.984 Tezzy nearly pants this next at Mornherald, panicking. "We gotta get out of here-"
3/3 03:13:15.531 Mornherald begins to turn the moment the skeleton takes his hand, ... though having to concentrate on continuing the stream of mentally whispered commands, attending to his 'ghoul,' means that he moves with an extremely stiff robot gait. But he is hurrying.
3/3 03:13:30.140 Josef does indeed slump against the wall, gurgling and rasping, black ichor coating his chin and staining his already filthy robes.
3/3 03:14:10.453 Tezzy takes the stairs! She's not about to go any faster than hustling-morn is, heading out the elevators (like an idiot).
3/3 03:14:25.046 Mornherald gives Tezzy a tense look... and then... changes plan and scoops the small skeleton into his arms, although he keeps up the mental stream of commands.
3/3 03:14:32.562 Mornherald says: [Scourge] Ig... ehhga...
3/3 03:14:44.015 Mornherald hhnnnnnggghhh expression.
3/3 03:14:49.171 Tezzy gives Morn a sharp look at THAT LANGUAGE.
3/3 03:15:16.156 Mornherald seems to have no clue that he's speaking it, his concentration is being taken up so much.
3/3 03:16:22.218 Tezzy gives Morn a worried look. "I'm so sorry- I... where..?"
3/3 03:16:24.437 Mornherald may or may not actually be muttering softly to the kidnapee in Scourge, even though he's carrying him.
3/3 03:16:47.562 Mornherald says: Bri... ? Sil...
3/3 03:17:03.062 Tezzy says: Not SIlvermoon, we'll...
3/3 03:17:14.046 Tezzy laughs crazily. "We'll stand out, ha."
3/3 03:17:29.640 Tezzy says: I know, come on.
3/3 03:18:09.562 Tezzy says: Is he...?
3/3 03:18:15.421 Tezzy looks back at the door.
3/3 03:18:33.343 Mornherald cradles the small skeleton, nodding long after Tezzy's gaze averts. ... Benny is light enough in the big manly deathknight's arms, he's able to coddle the preteen like a baby.
3/3 03:18:51.656 Mornherald says: ... Who--
3/3 03:21:46.796 Tezzy slows at an apparently-random spot. She certainly looks like she was headed -somewhere- but this is... nowhere. Slightly grassier than treesier. "I- Light, thank you Mornherald."
3/3 03:22:27.843 Mornherald continues to cradle Benny, although his expression is hardly gentle; it's still of INTENSE CONCENTRATION, a scowl... almost a snarl, blue eyes smoking and crazy. ... But when they stop and Tezzy speaks to him, he seems to slowly come out of whatever place Jiel had crawled off to, and blinks at her stupidly.
3/3 03:23:23.703 Tezzy gives Benny a concerned look, though she turns it on Morny too, "I-I-I.. I didn't mean it to-..." she shakes her head. "I didn't mean..." Big frown.
3/3 03:23:48.265 Mornherald ... then looks down at the fleshless boy in his arms with an expression of mild stupefaction. As if thinking: what do I do with this!?
3/3 03:24:09.546 Tezzy says: I'm so sorry, I'm sorry-.
3/3 03:24:23.500 Mornherald says: ... We... we. ... We.
3/3 03:24:24.203 Tezzy | It isn't apparent if she's addressing the boy or the Knight.
3/3 03:24:41.406 Mornherald ... stammers. ... Then bends to let Benny to the ground... if the creature will stand.
3/3 03:25:26.375 Pollution | Benny is lowered to the ground, and he stands...but that's about it. His posture sways, like the mindless undead that litter these hills.
3/3 03:26:14.234 Tezzy looks fiercely to Mornherald, feeling like she needs to convince him. "He's a monster, I swear it. He-" She looks down to Benny, patting his skull like she's stroking hair. Oh PLEASE be allright. "Benny-"
3/3 03:26:22.031 Mornherald keeps wary eyes on Benny, as if ready to blast more commands at him if need be; he relaxes, though, bit by bit, when it doesn't look like the chap will do anything untoward.
3/3 03:26:52.453 Mornherald says: ... Necromancy... to raise children... for... se, sentiment, uh...
3/3 03:27:30.921 Pollution | Benny is indeed the picture of harmlessness! Just a tottering little skeleton. There could very well be no one home in there.
3/3 03:27:32.031 Tezzy nods, her face taking on that sour grimace again. She makes an inarticulate disgusted noise.
3/3 03:27:49.046 Mornherald is hampered not just by his poor command of Orcish; he looks terribly confused and distracted and tired. Would have probably been simpler to jump on the little skeleton and truss him up, then haul him off.
3/3 03:28:16.875 Mornherald says: ... Not responsible.
3/3 03:28:34.250 Mornherald settles on that, making a gesture as if wiping his forehead with the back of a hand... though he probably didn't sweat.
3/3 03:29:54.531 Tezzy gathers the skeleboy to her side, frowning at Mornherald. "Yes." She agrees, gathering her own thoughts. "You don't- have to be involved in this mess. I'm sorry to-..." she trails off. "It's..." she's kind of at a loss. She rubs her other hand on her face
3/3 03:31:28.781 Pollution | Benny stumbles slightly as he's pulled to Tezzy's side. Tripping over his own fleshless feet. All of his motions are fumbling, like a sleepwalker.
3/3 03:31:38.656 Mornherald says: ... Mess? A boy tired of control-using father decided to... to "strike off on one's own," yes?
3/3 03:32:09.265 Mornherald gives Tezzy a tiiiired smile. Well, yes, technically he 'decided' to follow the strange death knight who promised candy, but...
3/3 03:33:46.390 Tezzy laughs under her breath, only slightly hysterical. "Right." She nods once, sitting down with a flump. "Are you allright?" She asks Morn, though she's looking Benny over. "Poor thing needs some clothes." The idea that he's Not There is too awful to think about
3/3 03:34:39.609 Mornherald slowly sinks to the ground, too, letting his head hang a second, though he raises it, still smiling weakly. "Just tired. It is not my specialty."
3/3 03:35:13.437 Mornherald looks... vaguely troubled by Tezzy's words about clothes, though. He licks his lips nervously before piping up: "... Usually, they do not have a... much of a modesty."
3/3 03:36:09.140 Tezzy nods slowly, but snaps at Morn's words. "He's a PERSON, Mornherald. He's not a man's skeleton puppet."
3/3 03:37:36.328 Tezzy adds quietly. "He beat him, Morn... terribly, and for -nothing-. For NOTHING."
3/3 03:38:02.296 Tezzy is talking about the other one, actually. Oops.
3/3 03:38:20.687 Mornherald closes his eyes, sighs heavily, then reopens them and gives Tezzy a sad, exhausted, but also firmly skeptical look. "... You think," he starts, quiet tone, "that trick works on... type of you and me," he gestures.
3/3 03:38:26.875 Mornherald says: I would do all my shopping business in Undercity if it were true.
3/3 03:38:55.406 Mornherald then closes his eyes again and hangs his head, no playfulness in the joke. His expression is very unhappy.
3/3 03:39:36.187 Tezzy is still getting her hate on! She only half-followed Morn's words anyway. She offers half of a smile. "Right. Why were you there, then?"
3/3 03:40:35.484 Mornherald d-doesn't like that question, eyes opening and shooting to the side; he shifts in his seat uncomfortably. "To buy supplies," he answers vaguely.
3/3 03:41:38.812 Tezzy hmns, eyes darting to mute Benny regularly. "Supplies?" she prompts, not knowing it was an evasion.
3/3 03:42:19.781 Mornherald says: Silver, uh, Silvermoon does not have all things a gentlemen of my persuasion needs...
3/3 03:42:25.125 Mornherald coughs out a nervous laugh.
3/3 03:42:34.671 Tezzy narrows her eyes. What does that even mean? "Huh?"
3/3 03:44:03.703 Mornherald flashes Tezzy a too-wide smile. ... a bit of black on his teeth, perhaps from that earlier coughing. "Silvermoon caters to the living."
3/3 03:44:40.578 Tezzy shakes her head. "Oh right, of course, I'm sorry." Her look is honestly apologetic.
3/3 03:45:33.328 Mornherald doesn't look at all offended, shrugging and waving a hand loosely. His gaze slowly wanders over to Benny.
3/3 03:45:35.515 Tezzy gives little Benedict a baleful look. "I'm sorry about your father-," she starts. "I- I don't know how to explain..."
3/3 03:46:31.187 Pollution | Benny seems unresponsive. There's a moment where he shifts, maybe? The brief grind of teeth, the listless working of a jaw. But nothing beyond that.
3/3 03:46:53.609 Mornherald says: ... Dumb father, to drive the son remaining to lonely death after the loss of the first.
3/3 03:47:08.187 Mornherald scowls, shoulders hunching, looking sulky.
3/3 03:47:58.968 Tezzy glances to Morn, realizing how much of that he heard. "Yes." she says, looking down. "I-... Light he worried he wasn't even all here- how..." she gives Morn a pitiful frown. "How do these things work?"
3/3 03:48:43.734 Mornherald ... looks back to Tezzy slowly, blinking twice. Stupidly uncomprehending expression to convey the unvoiced 'Huh?' to her.
3/3 03:49:24.859 Tezzy says: Raising-? I don't know how you raise up a person.
3/3 03:49:51.562 Mornherald says: ... How little ghouls are made?
3/3 03:49:58.781 Mornherald looks at Tezzy flatly.
3/3 03:50:03.062 Tezzy says: Light, what if he's- Benny, don't be dead. Please...
3/3 03:50:29.750 Tezzy sounds pretty pitiful. Though the request's words are flat nonsense. "Yes, ghouls..."
3/3 03:51:14.843 Pollution | Benny twitches. The scrape of bones as limbs slightly jerk, but it may be just spasmodic. Maybe in response to his name? It's hard to say.
3/3 03:51:15.125 Mornherald says: ... Wrong knight to ask. This one always saying that 'ghouls are only good for death paaaaaammmmnnngh.'
3/3 03:51:23.046 Mornherald ... realizes maybe he SHOULD NOT SAY THAT.
3/3 03:51:37.953 Tezzy says: Paaa-?
3/3 03:51:52.000 Tezzy doesn't know much about deathknights!
3/3 03:52:00.640 Mornherald coughs and shakes his head, shrugging nervously. "Er, hehe, a joke from Acherus." Vagueity vague!
3/3 03:52:51.421 Mornherald licks his lips, ears pressing back. "But I..." he changes tones, voice getting softer, gentler. "... I... do not think... You know, ..."
3/3 03:53:02.625 Mornherald says: ... A knight cannot command Forsaken in that manner.
3/3 03:53:09.859 Tezzy sobers. "O-of course. I... I need to write a letter. I- how... hn?" She listens to what Morny has to say.
3/3 03:53:14.531 Mornherald gives Tezzy a very sad and apologetic look.
3/3 03:53:26.203 Tezzy says: I'm sorry, you'll have to explain...
3/3 03:53:35.703 Tezzy looks apologetic! Knight things.
3/3 03:54:35.375 Mornherald says: ... If I can command i... him, in that way, he... unlikely to have any strong will.
3/3 03:55:20.218 Mornherald lowers his head a little, ears going back further; please, let him be able to dance around this instead of saying it outright.
3/3 03:55:54.718 Tezzy looks at Benny, piecing together what this means. "Don't-" she holds up a 'stop' hand even though Morny isn't about to death pact little Benny. "It's not... I can't choose that."
3/3 03:56:44.390 Mornherald stops talking, chin tucking in even more, as much as his collar will allow. But he still keeps his eyes on Tezzy, apologetic, yes, but serious.
3/3 03:57:25.687 Tezzy looks at Morn, her face a flat
She has to ask. "How...alive... are they?" the ones a Knight can command in that way.3/3 03:57:55.406 Tezzy still scans Benny's face and frame for signs of personhood.
3/3 03:58:05.296 Mornherald looks back at Tezzy, not quite as flat, restrained sadness showing. "Awake?" he asks, to clarify.
3/3 03:58:39.046 Tezzy nods.
3/3 03:59:05.437 Mornherald looks at Benny consideringly... then back to Tezzy. He chews his lip a moment, then murmurs to her, "I will not do anything, I promise."
3/3 03:59:51.453 Mornherald then looks at Benny, gaze gradually getting sharper. ... And then, a sharp movement, like the very first twitch of an arm coming up to deliver a blow, at the same time he shoots intensely irritated thoughts at the little skeleton-boy.
3/3 03:59:55.921 Mornherald glares angrily at Benedict.
3/3 04:00:09.593 Tezzy turns fierce eyes on Morny! He better not!
3/3 04:00:58.593 Pollution | Benny...does nothing. There's another twitch, like the shudder of someone asleep. A quiet rasp. But no flinch. No recoiling. Not even striking back in animal, defensive reflex.
3/3 04:01:59.453 Mornherald ... gradually leans back in his seat, pretense of anger evaporating. He makes a soothing gesture at Benny, out of habit; doesn't look like the kid really care much either way.
3/3 04:02:00.484 Tezzy makes an instinctive shielding motion with a hand, didn't Morn hear that Josef was a beating-ass child beater! Her face falls and her gesture fails when Benny stands stock still. She looks profoundly sad.
3/3 04:02:19.453 Mornherald glances at Tezzy, deep apology in his expression.
3/3 04:02:22.500 Tezzy says: ...What am I going to do.
3/3 04:02:56.281 Tezzy says: His...
3/3 04:03:22.484 Tezzy says: His brother lives. Campion's second son.
3/3 04:03:36.828 Tezzy said that pretty quietly.
3/3 04:04:23.015 Mornherald picks it up, though, ears flicking towards Tezzy; he leans forward a little bit. "... Then perhaps it is up to family, how remains are to be...?"
3/3 04:06:52.703 Tezzy looks Benedict over, hands helpless in her lap. It's more grotesque and twisted the more she thinks about it. "I should have killed him." the sentiment is weary, though.
3/3 04:07:41.375 Tezzy says: Will the boy... Come with me? I mean, he stayed with-.
3/3 04:08:12.968 Tezzy thinks there might still be some special snowflake DK thing going on here.
3/3 04:09:05.546 Mornherald blinks at Tezzy, as if he didn't quite understand her first statement -- but he doesn't pry. "I do not know," he answers her question. "I do not know what type of necromancy created. Although it obeyed me."
3/3 04:09:25.765 Tezzy says: Tiddia.
3/3 04:09:35.093 Tezzy says: A death knight raised him.
3/3 04:09:42.343 Tezzy states these facts without much affect.
3/3 04:09:55.187 Tezzy says: She worked for the Blade, in Icecrown.
3/3 04:10:30.046 Tezzy says: She made ghouls out of-.
3/3 04:10:37.875 Tezzy laughs. It's not funny.
3/3 04:11:22.609 Mornherald frowns at Tezzy, brow furrowing as if he is... searching his memory for something. Whatever it was, though, he doesn't find it, and shakes his head a little to clear it. "... I have not heard of ghouls attached to others than master..."
3/3 04:11:33.875 Tezzy buries her face in her skeletal hands.
3/3 04:11:54.531 Tezzy says: ...Right.
3/3 04:12:27.406 Mornherald blinks at Tezzy, leaning in towards her just slightly, expression concerned -- and totally oblivious to whatever could have caused that reaction. Did he say something unusual?
3/3 04:14:06.890 Tezzy says: Well, this one obviously...
3/3 04:14:15.937 Tezzy says: I mean.
3/3 04:14:24.140 Mornherald nods slowly, leaning back, expression thoughtful.
3/3 04:14:35.062 Tezzy addresses the boy. "You're no -ghoul-." She says the word with distaste.
3/3 04:15:12.765 Mornherald gives Tezzy a half-sympathetic, half-tired look. ... Yes, he is, Miss Tezzy.
3/3 04:15:26.390 Mornherald says: ... My immediate superior is a specialist in the unholy arts. I could inquire to him. ... Sir Larkspur Plagueheart.
3/3 04:15:38.093 Mornherald pronounces the name with a touch of reverence. ... Just a touch, though.
3/3 04:16:08.500 Tezzy looks away. Secrets are hard to keep! "Let me write... He's not goin' anywhere."
3/3 04:16:19.859 Mornherald says: ... Hopeful.
3/3 04:16:26.828 Tezzy says: Can you? I mean, it's hardly a military matter.
3/3 04:16:26.828 Mornherald eyes Benny worriedly.
3/3 04:16:36.750 Tezzy is just a little defensive.
3/3 04:16:41.500 Tezzy protects her Campions.
3/3 04:16:49.781 Mornherald says: ... I mean, to ask him of the...
3/3 04:16:51.968 Mornherald gesticulates!
3/3 04:16:56.484 Mornherald says: This type of situation, how, why.
3/3 04:17:10.671 Tezzy nods. "Right. Well. Yes, I suppose."
3/3 04:17:11.281 Mornherald says: Not to tell him about my new child with Miss Winchel.
3/3 04:17:45.593 Tezzy laughs! She nods, a bit of a smirk. "Right, I just- I don't want him gettin' destroyed cos some committee decides."
3/3 04:18:12.843 Tezzy doesn't really know what else to DO with him, but she's not gonna decide that.
3/3 04:19:04.015 Mornherald nods understanding, although there is still a faint, faint trace of exasperation in his expression. "I ask purely hypothetical question."
3/3 04:19:16.984 Tezzy nods slowly. "Of course. Thank you."
3/3 04:19:31.375 Mornherald says: ... Sir Lar-- Sir Plagueheart is also a good man. And he respects wishes of family for remains.
3/3 04:19:49.671 Mornherald seems to TOTALLY disregard that they just ripped this kid out of his father's arms.
3/3 04:20:29.015 Mornherald says: Still, I ask hypotheticals.
3/3 04:20:40.671 Tezzy smiles a little. "Lark- Sir Plagueheart-" she realizes she knows this name and nods. "Of course." Tezzy is glad Morny is taking her word that Josef is an awful awful man.
3/3 04:22:02.453 Mornherald says: We want to ask... what things?
3/3 04:22:12.437 Tezzy says: What things?
3/3 04:22:44.562 Mornherald says: Can it be taught to follow you if his brother decides that is good... if it can get more awakeness....
3/3 04:22:49.000 Mornherald gestures. What sorts of questions?
3/3 04:23:27.406 Tezzy says: It- that's possible? I ... Light- even if he's a proper Forsaken, he- he's TWELVE, Morn.
3/3 04:23:43.531 Tezzy says: Or... Forty-something. It's all wrong.
3/3 04:23:50.203 You frown with disappointment at Mornherald.
3/3 04:23:55.625 Mornherald waves his hands! "I do not know! They are questions to ask Sir Plagueheart."
3/3 04:24:15.140 Mornherald says: But... Miss Tezzy...
3/3 04:24:24.843 Tezzy nods, much more agreeable finally. "Right....hm?"
3/3 04:24:30.562 Mornherald ... looks from Benny to Tezzy, head falling again, ears drooping.
3/3 04:24:36.375 Mornherald says: I am not hopeful of much.
3/3 04:25:07.031 Tezzy nods. "It's-" she grimaces. "Probably better he..." she forces a smile. "Goes back to his rest, so to speak."
3/3 04:25:40.015 Mornherald ... makes a noncommital gesture. "You will write to his brother..." he murmurs. It's not their place to decide.
3/3 04:26:50.796 Tezzy nods. "I will. I'll - I should get to that right away. Goblin extra-express, or something." Another smile she doesn't mean, as she stands.
3/3 04:27:56.140 Mornherald slowly pushes up to his feet, too, glancing at Benny, then at Tezzy. "... It will be kept safe meanwhile?" he asks.
3/3 04:28:10.015 Tezzy says: I'll keep him safe.
3/3 04:28:35.437 Tezzy says: Thank you- I hope...Everything is allright with you? I mean- otherwise.
3/3 04:28:47.515 Tezzy makes a vague gesture that could mean pretty much anything.
3/3 04:28:55.281 Mornherald nods to Tezzy; he certainly doesn't look (or maybe want to look?) like he doubts Tezzy's ability, if she says she can. Though in reply to that question, his ears go back a little.
3/3 04:29:27.562 Mornherald says: All is fine... You did receive-- DID you receive my letter?
3/3 04:29:35.000 Mornherald corrects his Orcish midsentence.
3/3 04:30:02.453 Tezzy says: I did, so I'm worried - now that I'm thinking about it - about Mr. Haken as well.
3/3 04:30:16.109 Tezzy has pieced this situation together from hearsay.
3/3 04:30:51.750 Mornherald looks away, a deeply guilty smile blooming on his face, ears going back even more. "Mmh, Haken... is not well. ... Difficult things happened to him."
3/3 04:31:30.187 Tezzy nods sympathetically. "Mnh."
3/3 04:31:56.703 Tezzy is happy to hear any elaboration!
3/3 04:32:21.843 Mornherald tries to perk up! "He is better each day... More like his old Haken. Or, better, a better-behaving Haken."
3/3 04:32:37.281 Tezzy says: Well that's something.
3/3 04:32:43.593 Tezzy 's brave little soldier face is sincere!
3/3 04:33:11.125 Mornherald says: I think he will take time and care, but... he will be fine with time.
3/3 04:33:15.718 Tezzy says: What- may I ask what happened?
3/3 04:33:30.359 Tezzy wouldn't usually venture to pry, but Morn just saw her WHOLE DRAMA unfold.
3/3 04:33:40.328 Mornherald looks away again, smile dimming, anxiety and sadness rushing in. He shifts his weight.
3/3 04:33:51.375 Mornherald says: ... Haken is... um.
3/3 04:34:10.609 Tezzy looks innocently curious.
3/3 04:34:14.640 Mornherald says: He does not remember his life. ... He has one year, maybe two.
3/3 04:34:23.531 Mornherald glances at Tezzy. She following?
3/3 04:34:31.312 Tezzy nods. That's common enough.
3/3 04:34:41.812 Tezzy says: Mn-hm.
3/3 04:35:03.125 Mornherald says: And... it happened that, ... his child's-innocence was... s-spoiled.
3/3 04:35:24.203 Tezzy browfurrows a little bit at Morn's orcish, but she's listening!
3/3 04:35:28.468 Mornherald is probably conveying exactly who did that 'spoiling,' too, with his very uncomfortable posture and stuttering.
3/3 04:35:43.093 Mornherald says: ... He lost his child's-faith.
3/3 04:36:13.343 Tezzy ...doesn't follow, but it sounds pretty bad. She nods anyway, she's nothing if not polite!
3/3 04:37:12.578 Mornherald tilts his gaze up to the sky... turning a bit to face the northwest. ... Traces of loss and sadness in his face, along with the guilt.
3/3 04:37:16.421 Mornherald says: His god died...
3/3 04:37:26.218 Mornherald says: ... and he became an Ebon Blade.
3/3 04:37:37.015 Mornherald glances sideways at Tezzy, expression serious.
3/3 04:38:52.046 Tezzy is coming to SOME kind of conclusion, but it's not the right one. She nods understanding. "Mnn, well." a twitch of the lips that's hardly her usual chin-up smirk. "if you say he's getting better, I'm hopeful."
3/3 04:40:46.140 Mornherald nods. Whether he thinks Tezzy got it right, or if he just doesn't want to push the matter, it's unclear. "... But, he gets great, um..." ... 'separation anxiety' is not a dignified term to apply to death knights... "... worried if I am away from him."
3/3 04:41:13.578 Mornherald says: So perhaps I return before he becomes very worried.
3/3 04:41:44.640 Mornherald is looking rather worried himself, now that the topic's come to mind.
3/3 04:42:25.015 Tezzy nods, wincing a little. "Sorry to keep you, then- this..." she gestures around, but maybe it isn't worth explaining. "Of course, thank you for your help."
3/3 04:42:40.656 Tezzy says: And for contacting Sir Plagueheart.
3/3 04:42:44.312 Mornherald makes a little gesture to dismiss her thanks.
3/3 04:43:00.437 Mornherald says: I will not forget.
3/3 04:43:01.703 Mornherald says: ... I can make arrangements to chat with we two also, and to keep him safe alone. Tomorrow? Another day? ... If you are still interested in that?
3/3 04:43:25.281 Tezzy says: Tomorrow, of course. In Brill?
3/3 04:43:41.812 Mornherald says: Brill is easy. I will see you then.
3/3 04:44:02.421 Tezzy nods again, with a bit of a smile. "Yes. See you then."
3/3 04:44:06.796 Mornherald steps back, makes a good effort a smiling, then clicks his heels and bows slightly from the waist. "Then, suffer well."
3/3 04:44:25.890 Mornherald then gets to scanning the area... and decides that it's acceptable to plop a death gate down right here.
3/3 04:44:45.125 Tezzy would agree! There used to be a really wicked fort right there.
3/3 04:44:59.500 Mornherald eyes Benny briefly.
3/3 04:45:02.031 Mornherald waves at you.
