re: checking out games

[engilding]

You want to put my 'huge' what where? That's, ah, fine ... I guess. Make sure Suzaku's around to see it, at least, he'll be really impressed.

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[kindlymeant]

I thought you knights had no magic of your own.

[engilding]

It's not magic, it's science. It's ... hah, this is so difficult to explain. Imagine a huge metal man with wings, able to transform into something like a bird - that's what I pilot. It's all to do with mechanics and energy.

[kindlymeant]

[if only she'd paid more attention to mechanics huh]

Then it is your armour that can fly?

[engilding]

Yeah! That's a great way of describing it. It's called Tristan. You'd love it, Alayne, I could take you right up past the clouds so you could look down on the sunlight itself.

[kindlymeant]

[She allowed herself a wistful smile.]

You sound very proud of your armour, Gino. Are you still looking forward to flying in Hogwarts?

[engilding]

Flying without being coped up inside anything sounds like heaven, if you ask me.

[kindlymeant]

[After a moment of silence, she admits, quieter than before - ]

I wished for wings, once.

[engilding]

[ Leans down in. ]

Did you get them?

[kindlymeant]

If I did, there would be no walls that could hold me. [Freer with her words than she usually would be, but she knows that these can be assigned to simple girlish wishful thinking, and therefore sees no great harm in them.]

[engilding]

I don't think any walls could hold you even as you are now.

[kindlymeant]

We all have our places, as I said.

[engilding]

Stop saying that, please. It's true, but only in so much as you mean it.

[kindlymeant]

Is it not simple fact?

[engilding]

No. People can be whoever and whatever they want, it doesn't matter what gender or race you are, that's all background noise.

[kindlymeant]

Would that it were as you say. But that is child's play, and the thing that binds us is duty.

[engilding]

... I can't argue with that part. You've got me there.

[kindlymeant]

I know little of swords and armour, but I know enough of this, I think, for even a bastard girl has her duties. There is naught to do but rise to them as best we can.

[engilding]

Don't call yourself that. Rank and everything that comes with it, birthrights, they're nothing.

[kindlymeant]

...In some ways, perhaps. But not in others.

[engilding]

Not in any way that truly matters.

[kindlymeant]

As in stories, where kings and queens treat their stableboys with the same kindness as their councilmen, and knights protect the weak and the innocent?

[engilding]

Knights are generally the worst warmongers of all, if they can protect a single person in their lifetime then it's practically a feat of impossibility. Most don't bother, you're right.

[kindlymeant]

[And that hits a nerve. She all but gawks at him for a bit, swallowing hard before she composes herself.]

Perhaps it is so.

[engilding]

[ He softens his expression with a forced smile. ]

I don't revere that sort of person, not at all.

[kindlymeant]

[That doesn't seem to reassure her, but she soon schools her expression to something smooth and flat.]

Then to what end did you swear your oaths?