suitedreams: Rupert

[battling]

don't run me over (with a horse)

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[battling]

[aggressively double checks my notes]

Red hair, glasses? Miss Navigator.

It was White [Tsurumaru], but she was in the same place as him. They were in a village, and fightin' darkness. Possessin' people there too.

[agleam]

Oh - Futaba?

[after a small pause:]

Isn't she from the one where everybody but one person died in the end...?

[battling]

That's what I've been hearin'. They did come back at the end.

[agleam]

...Right. As long as that happens, that's more important than anything else.

[battling]

[There's a laugh, but there's something tired about it]

What's a little more trauma.

[Round TWO]

[agleam]

[he snorts]

Hopefully being imprisoned back home is at least non-life threatening, even if it's really irritating. I think you've earned a break.

[battling]

It was life threatenin' for a hundred years, but it's gotten better.

[agleam]

...How was it life threatening?

[battling]

Less the prison and more bein' a Sage's wizard. Every year we'd fight the moon. Sometimes people would die doin' that.

[agleam]

...Sorry, I think I misheard you. You were fighting what?

[battling]

's the moon.

[agleam]

I... Sorry, I don't mean to downplay the threat you just described, but - why the Moon, exactly...?

[battling]

Moon's evil.

[agleam]

...Okay then! No further questions.

[battling]

["I hate the moon soooo bad"]

Used my wish on that thing, still a lotta aftermath to clean up.

[agleam]

So that's why it became less life threatening... I'm glad, then.

[battling]

Still a huge pain.

[But at least none of the kids or old guys died this time.]

At least that work keeps me outta the jail cell.

[agleam]

How exactly did your wish work? Is the moon, like... Gone now, or is just less evil?

[battling]

It's less deadly. Won't be the reason any wizards turn to stone.

[The kids won't die to it.]

[agleam]

Is that what happened when you tried to fight it? Jeez!

[battling]

It didn't happen to me. Half of Central, East, West and all of South got wiped before the wish.

[agleam]

Half of... That's horrible!

[battling]

It's only the Sage's Wizards that are ever in danger. Four from each country. Nobody else goes fightin' it.

[Moon's Dangerous. They're hermits. They're weak. They don't think it matters. There's all sorts of reasons not to get involved.]

[agleam]

And they just... Find more once something happens to you guys?

[battling]

There's a ritual to summon replacements. You saw my right flank? Every Sage's Wizard has that mark on their body somewhere.

Means we gotta fight the moon.