She did not know why, she only knew that lately a lot of things had ticked off and she had been so angry about everything that in this moment of anger, she had stabbed her fellow Knight with the sword that she had strapped on her hip. Now she sat on the ground, staring at the problem she had created on the horrendous setting she made. There was the sound of crying and there was a lot of blood. Next to the knight on the ground, who turned awfully pale in the puddle of blood lay the sword of Adelaide and she stood directly next to the body, or more hunched down staring at her hands tainted by the blood of Augusta and one of her children crying loudly behind her. She should get up, she should take them away from here and find an excuse. Someone outside must have gone to fetch another knight or a Rune Knight and what if that was Konstantin? How would she explain herself, how would she ever make up for what needed to be fixed, what if... she had been entirely in the wrong but she could not afford that problem. She stared at the wand, she should tell everyone what Augusta had wanted to do, to force her to kill her kids but instead, she had swung back.
Spilled Blood [Alek & Addy]
Sun Jan 13, 2019 12:36 pm
She did not know why, she only knew that lately a lot of things had ticked off and she had been so angry about everything that in this moment of anger, she had stabbed her fellow Knight with the sword that she had strapped on her hip. Now she sat on the ground, staring at the problem she had created on the horrendous setting she made. There was the sound of crying and there was a lot of blood. Next to the knight on the ground, who turned awfully pale in the puddle of blood lay the sword of Adelaide and she stood directly next to the body, or more hunched down staring at her hands tainted by the blood of Augusta and one of her children crying loudly behind her. She should get up, she should take them away from here and find an excuse. Someone outside must have gone to fetch another knight or a Rune Knight and what if that was Konstantin? How would she explain herself, how would she ever make up for what needed to be fixed, what if... she had been entirely in the wrong but she could not afford that problem. She stared at the wand, she should tell everyone what Augusta had wanted to do, to force her to kill her kids but instead, she had swung back.
Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:43 am
It was his duty to check on these things, and maintain law and order. While sneaking off to take a drag was fine in his book, ignoring a cause for mass dismay was not. As he began approaching the church, he felt consternation. What if it was a band of thieves? Or demons?
When he would, however, reach the gates of the church, and see what had happened it surprised him more than any of those things could have. Adelaide - his sister in law, along with his brother's children were present, and some woman lay impaled at the ground. Did Adelaide kill her? If so, what was he supposed to do? His duty would be to arrest her, but would he? Could he?
He approached her with slow and heavy steps. He didn't know if she had noticed his presence. He had no clue what had happened and did not want to take a rash decision. He only hoped that it would not end up being the wrong decision. The children were there too, and he hoped he wouldn't have to arrest their mother in front of them. Other knights will be here soon. When he reached her and stood in front of her, and just some feet away from the dead he spoke "What the f-" and realizing he was in a church and there were children present, he reworded "What exactly happened here?"
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:11 am
It pained her to see her brother in law and she heard how he had to correct himself to ask her what happened and he said exactly and her lip trembled and she went to stand up straight, she was glad that at the moment of surprise, she had first looked before she had grabbed her sword, she did not want to come over as someone who would attack Aleksandr. She felt her stomach make a hurl and she felt the bile in her mouth again, but like the previous time, she would not vomit. "Alek." Was the first and only word that she could pronounce. She felt the urge to cry and just give up but she could not, not with her children so close. What did it all matter if she could not protect them. She took a deep breath to try and explain what happened even if it were all question marks to her. "She threatened the children. She threatened with that thing." She pointed at the golden wand that had rolled a bit away from Augusta, "To make me kill the kids." she said in a hushed whisper and whipping off her hands on the armour to grab her sword and clean it too as well as the wand that Augusta had. "She said something about Kon leaving me because of the kids because that's not what the Illumin wanted and I don't know, something... snapped?" Would she be able to say goodbye to the kids, would she be able to bring them to someone who could take care of them, Judina's mom for example? What would Alek do, she was at least very happy to see it was him here, not someone else that she did not trust at all. Which was currently a long list of the Knight of her faction.
Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:42 am
"Calm down. It was an accident, I understand and don't worry, I'm not going to turn you in." Something stung him inside that he was doing the wrong thing but he buried that feeling. "But." he paused and then said again "We have to do something quickly, other knights will be here soon. They might not have the same level of understanding for your situation. Maybe we can say she attacked you. Maybe we can say that she tried to harm your children and you acted out in self-defense. But we're going to have to decide fast." He said and took a quick glance at the children and pointing at them "They might even question them." said in hushed tones. Then he took a few steps back and looked at the dead woman. "And what are we gonna do about her?"
That was when he noticed that she had picked up the sword, maybe to clean it. "Don't destroy evidence. I don't think we have enough time to bury her and her sword."
Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:33 am
She noticed the panic that overwhelmed her but with just the right words and short and direct, she nodded at Aleksandr and took a deep breath to calm down. No panic, they had nothing with panic but she stared at him with big eyes. "You won't?" But that means she brought him in danger too! She followed everything Alek said and turned to look at the crying Tanya and the shaking Anton who still had not lowered his hands. She did not know what to do and looked up from her hands when Alek said she should not be destroying evidence.
Evidence?
She dropped the sword again and opened the breastplate of her armour to hide the wand. "If I have to believe Augusta, they can read my mind with this thing. We better keep it away from other curious minds." She tucked it in under the shirt she was wearing underneath the breastplates before securing them again. Now, what, they had the ability to see things with magic but that would only see her fingerprints on the sword and that would not explain a lot of things. "No one will believe me, I was all alone." She turned to look at Aleksandr, panic was rising again as she knew time was ticking. She looked at the body again, of course, her fingerprints would be on her sword and Augusta wore... gloves. She looked over her shoulder, "We need to come up with a story that we both can tell separately. And fast." In detail she told Alek as quick as she could what happened and what they should answer with questions. Augusta had threatened to kill her children and spoke that Adelaide was defiled by them and thus not worthy of the Illumin. When Adelaide had answered that she was blessed with not one child as she had always assumed during her pregnancy but with two, in a blind rage and panic Augusta had taken her own life as the god she so loved had failed her.
She went to quickly go to Tanya and sit next to Anton and took her daughter on her lap to shush her as well as she could. How to convince two two-year-olds what to say. She should have found a good nanny.
Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:49 am
"No, I won't tell them, I don't really even like any of them to be honest," he said to her, as reassurance. He really couldn't think of anything else to say. Time was running low, they had to be clear and concise. He decided to go check the church door to see if anybody was coming while she tucked the wand under her breastplates. "I don't see anyone right now," he said to her as he walked back. "Yeah, you don't wanna give them anything they can get an advantage over us from. I don't really trust people that are too religious, so to say. Never know what they're gonna do, how far they can go."
He carefully listened to Adelaide explain the story she would tell and now he had to decide what he was going to do. "Well, I'll say that I heard noises from the church and people were hurrying out, they looked very scared it looked like somebody was causing a nuisance and heard somebody shout about killing people." he said pointing to the dead body, "I decided to check on it because it's part of my duty and also to arrest her, and I walked into her killing herself. What are they gonna do, try and find all the people that attended the church or question the dead body why she killed herself? I think not." and then continued "We might be questioned, but I'm sure we can handle it."
Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:34 am
Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:44 pm
"I do agree with you," he said to her before he heard footsteps behind him. He turned back to find another Holy Knight, and it seemed judgment day was upon them. He hoped none of them will crumble under the pressure. The man asked him what happened here, and he said calmly "I was on patrol when I heard some shouting coming from the church. I saw that a lot of people exited the church, and they all looked scared. So I decided to check on it." he then continued "I ran here as fast as I could and heard noises about killing 'lower lives'. I got ready to arrest whoever was there and walked into this woman," he pointed at the dead body "killing herself." he then looked at the Knight, waiting for either doubt or belief from him. The best case scenario would obviously be him believing them, but he didn't feel he would. Ah well. Who knows?
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:08 pm
She looked shortly at Aleksandr, maybe the good thing was at this point with Konstantin forgetting her that they also did not know that Alek was her brother-in-law. She held up Tanya to let her nuzzle her little face against her amour and hide it and not show the big bad man that she was crying. She herself tried to compromise and held Anton's hand while looking shortly at the knight, he asked her what happened. She talked about what Aleksandr just said, threatening, that they all had to die because they did not do well in the name of Illumin, which was what Augusta had meant. "I do admit sir." She decided to stay polite. "That I have no idea how she got my sword, I think I drew it to prevent her from harming my children. But she managed to snatch it away and when I told her that she was wrong, she..." She let go of Anton's hand and waved at the mess over near the door. He went to inspect and indeed noticed her sword which he handed back to her. She had no idea what he thought.
It remained silent for a while before he would take Aleksandr outside, ask him a few more things and went back inside to ask Alice apart the questions too. As they were both aware of the story, giving it in detail enough, they both answered the same, not with the exact words but the setting. He let them go, asking them to keep it hushed because no one should know about this. Augusta was one of their best recruits and it would be a shame. He would figure it out and asked Adelaide to come back later but for her sake, her nerves and the children, she could go. Once reunited with Aleksandr, she asked him softly if he would walk with her to the apartment that she was renting now. The kids needed a nap, she was sure of that with this level of stress and fear and she needed a coffee or something and they needed to talk.
Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:58 pm
Adelaide would then ask him to walk her back to her apartment, and what could he answer other than a simple "Yes, sure." and would go with her. "I think we're gonna be just fine." he said to her. It didn't seem viable to him that they had somehow fucked it up, considering the Knight's reaction. Well going to jail is never a promising prospect. Especially since there will be no one to take care of Anton and Tanya. Konstantin didn't remember them supposedly, and Adelaide would be in jail. He supposed he would be in jail too for helping her try and hide the evidence and dodge jail time. Maybe they would have been sent to an orphanage and the conditions there are never optimal. By now he had a slight migraine and needed to relax a little. Something to drink and eat would be very nice.
Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:41 pm
Once arriving at the place, she had to let go of Anton and open the door but let her boy in first. "Give me a second, I will bring them to bed first." The place wasn't too big, the living room and kitchen were connected and there were two bedrooms directly next to each other. She brought Tanya to bed first, helping her little girl to put her pj's on before turning to her son who was trying by himself, which was a cute sight if she had the heart for it. Once in bed, she offered Alek a drink and asked if he would stay for supper. It wouldn't take long but she could make something easy after all that was the least she could do. She removed the rod from her armour and took off the plate herself, showing the black turtleneck she was wearing. "One day, I get him back." She muttered, thinking about Konstantin.
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