Just apped at exitvoid

[hawkejunior]

All right, you turned the application in. Bloody good for you. About time I show up to sort this mess out (and I'm going to do a better job at it than my brother or that crazy mage, thank you very much.)

Now sit down while I list, point by point, all the parts that are wrong.

- I do not have an inferiority complex!
- I am not jealous of Garrett!
- I am not whiny!
- I do not complain all the time!
- I am not "a bit of a tit" and it's not a justifiable thing to say!
- I do too have charisma!
- I am not IMMATURE.

And last, but certainly not least, this is the worst journal name ever!

FIX IT.

Comments

[circler]

Is it? I don't know much about it. Brother's there, at least, and if he can get through that place without mucking things up...

[hawkejunior]

[Eyeroll.] Oh, yes, thank the Maker, Garrett's there.

You're right. If he can do it, I'll have an even easier time of it.

[circler]

Of course I'm right.

Be careful, Carver... the both of you.

[hawkejunior]

Yes, yes, you usually are, aren't you? [Brotherly teasing, of course.]

I will. And I'll make sure he does, too. You be careful too, wherever you end up.

[circler]

[As long as he doesn't put glue in her hair or something, she will accept this teasing.]

Good- I'm sure he misses you giving him a hard time. As I do.

I don't know where I'm going, to be honest. So I suppose I'll have to content myself with worrying over you lot..

[hawkejunior]

[Come now, Bethany, how old was Carver the last time he messed with your hair? 8? 10? 17?]

I miss you too, sister.

Keep in touch, wherever you go. I don't want you slipping out of my fingers again.

[circler]

[Old enough! Next time she's freezing your toothbrush.]

You can't get rid of me that easily. Someone needs to keep you and Garrett from ripping each other apart.

[hawkejunior]

Good.

Though really, as if Garrett could rip me apart? He couldn't figure out how to get my armor out of the way if I asked him to.

[circler]

[She giggles at that delightful mental image.]

He may try to joke his way into it- or get the dog to do it for him.

[hawkejunior]

The dog would do a better job at it, wouldn't he?

[circler]

Yes, but don't tell either of them that. We don't need Garrett trying to prove us wrong - that might get awkward.

[hawkejunior]

If he tries, I'll give him another black eye like I did when I was 13.

[circler]

You have the oddest way of showing you care.

[hawkejunior]

Well, I don't want him trying to take my armor off, now, do I? You know he'd try. In public. For a laugh.

[circler]

He only does it because you make it so easy for him to pick on you.

[hawkejunior]

He doesn't pick on you!

[circler]

I'm charming, so I hear.

[hawkejunior]

Well, you are a girl. Any man who torments his younger sister is a wretch in my book.

[Pause.]

And we're twins, so when I used to pick on you doesn't count.

[circler]

A girl who can still freeze your smalls, by the way.

[hawkejunior]

See? We're always even in the end.

[circler]

I miss this. Did I mention that? I really do.

[hawkejunior]

I do too, Beth. The Wardens joke, but you like my jokes better than they do.

[circler]

And no one in the Circle tells them like you.

Are you- do you like it there? With the Wardens.

[hawkejunior]

I won't lie, it's pretty nasty sometimes. Not at all like they always tell the stories, with honor and glory and griffons blotting out the sun. I'm glad it was me and not you, because you'd hate it.

But... I'm useful, here. It's nice to be somewhere where nobody knows where I came from and all they care about is what I can do.

And it's a lot better than the alternative.

[circler]

I'd rather you didn't have to live with the Taint at all-- but I'm happy you've found a purpose. [That you're alive.]

I don't imagine the darkspawn offer much company in those dark tunnels.