shendefeng: (Grumble grumble)
Temeraire ([personal profile] shendefeng) wrote in [community profile] soul_campaign2012-03-25 02:42 pm

[February 4th -- Mid-Morning] --- [Video]

[He is silent for a moment, his tail swishing from side-to-side in a more annoyed manner than he would usually do.]

Those ghastly attacks from the Witches from before - though that's nothing new, however it is still both very sad and very irritating. That, and with those people that have been taken...

[His tail stops, as he looks back at the Camera.]

It only makes me glad that I am going. I know not what I am to expect, exactly, except that I know that I will attempt to do my best to help my meister whilst we do battle. However, I shall most certainly not forget that our main objective is to bring people back home where they belong.

[Odd, when did Death City become "home" instead of, well...]

So for everyone that is going, pray do take care, and bring back our fellows back from the clutches of those witches.

As for those that are new arrivals -- I would think it depends on whether or not you have a partner, if you have the battle experience, and if you are confident in your abilities to participate in such an undertaking. However if you are, Godspeed.
dissenter: (fire ze missles.)

video.

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-03-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[oh wow. this must be the dragon -- temeraire -- ling told him about!

for all but the colour, he looks so much like shinonome -- it's a little uncanny. and unfortunately, it only serves to remind him of the indeterminate amount of time that stands between him and returning to his own world and finally being reunited with her after so long.

no time to be sad, though. introductions, manners, are in order.]
I'm sure the rest of us are glad that you're going, too. Not every city can say that it's under a dragon's protective wing; our side and the soon-to-be-rescued should consider themselves fortunate.
Edited (argh) 2012-03-27 01:52 (UTC)
dissenter: (m'appeler votre altesse.)

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-03-28 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's correct. And might I say, those witches sure do know how to welcome someone to this world. [his tone is light -- not sarcastic -- but the irony's clear enough...

a polite smile.]
My name is Qilby, and it's been a very long time since I've met a dragon outside of those that lived alongside my people. They would have felt the same way you feel... [they'd have been sore over being shrunk too, i mean--] They would not suffer a wrong to go uncorrected.

I regret I'm not in any shape to join you, though know that your cause has my full support.
dissenter: (time for a journey.)

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-03-29 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, not unwell, no-- age is my only malady. [and, well, having only one arm.] But thank you. I'm finding ways to help that don't necessarily require me to fight on the front lines.

It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Temeraire. And no, the type of coexistence my brothers and sisters shared with dragons wasn't all that common, even in our universe. We were born of dragons many millennia ago, and were bonded by blood ever since. [he never dropped the polite smile, though it's sadder now -- more nostalgic.] I had a dragon sister, Shinonome, and my more human-looking siblings had dragons of their own as well.

You're so well-spoken. You remind me a little of her, actually.
dissenter: (je vois.)

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-03-30 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[a good-natured laugh!]

Oh no, no, I understand it must be a bit of a strange concept for anyone to wrap their head around. But to be fair, it was only the five of my siblings and I that shared a particularly close bond with our dragons. The rest of our people merely lived among them, which seems a much more common occurrence in the worlds of other guests I've spoken with. [a beat.] Not that that's saying much.

Your Captain-- is he a human, then?
dissenter: (let me sing you the song of my people.)

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-03-31 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Entire countries... [it's his turn to be marvelled.] Your kind seem to be far more common in your world than they were in ours. And to be entwined with human society to such an extent! Even our dragons -- apart from those on the Council -- remained somewhat aloof.

Your world sounds truly incredible, Temeraire. My people and I have been to many planets over the millennia, but never have I come across one like that.
dissenter: (convening.)

[personal profile] dissenter 2012-04-02 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[it's strange being the one spoken to -- normally it's him talking on and on. strange, but nice, not having to fight for ways to keep his thirst for the novel quenched. it doesn't even bother him that so many terms are flying way over his head; it's all just so new and fascinating.

a wide smile.]
I wouldn't rule it out. Though my people and I travelled across our universe for some years -- stopping on many planets along the way -- we were but a single grain of sand in the desert that is the Krosmoz. So many worlds are left to explore -- perhaps even your planet is among them. Maybe I will get the chance to see it some day.

[his smile falters.] And I... Empathise with your experiences, at any rate. My people are lost, and have been for several millennia. Only two of my brothers and their dragons live today.

And it may be disheartening, and while we are kept barely alive through what we've left behind -- there is hope. [a deep breath, and some forced laughter.] Or at least there will be, once I get around to getting back to the world I came from. Not that we were in a particular rush to get this task done, but BREW does have an awful sense of timing...