You know the drill; dusting off an old muse

[caladcholg]

Hello again to you as well, mundane. It has been quite some time, has it not?

If I may, perhaps that we should become reacquainted with each other again, given the time period again.

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[makestrouble]

Oi, Clare! Good to see you!

[caladcholg]

Hello, Helen. It's been far too long. Are you being treated well?

[makestrouble]

Yeah! I was a little pissed over being sent where I am at first, but it's turned out to be really good!

How've you been?

[caladcholg]

All is well, Helen. But I've seen that place from afar. Ah... how is it... manageable?

[makestrouble]

Ah, well. You can get by just by fighting for the guys. And, well... it got healed.

[caladcholg]

[Say no more, Clare knows what that means.]

How did... that got healed?

[makestrouble]

Y-Yeah. There're a few people who know magic here, and one woman managed to do it!

[caladcholg]

So what does that mean for you?

[makestrouble]

Well, nothing else has really changed. It just means I can go to the bathhouse without people freaking out.

[caladcholg]

It still wouldn't feel right, with or without it.

[makestrouble]

It's taken a while to get used to it. Kinda worried about it coming back too. But it was kinda necessary...

[Noooot going into any more detail than that. No one wants to hear it.]

[caladcholg]

[Clare can sympathize.]

There is no way to avoid it?

[makestrouble]

The sorcerers like to curse people sometimes... I've tried kicking their asses on a number of occasions for the shit they've done but the bastards are sneaky.

[caladcholg]

How are they?

[makestrouble]

The curses? Mostly annoying as hell. Often, pointless and stupid. Like, I had one that just made me cause more trouble than usual? That one was the least irritating.

[caladcholg]

[Flatly, but it is Clare teasing.]

You don't need a curse to cause trouble; that's impossible for you.

[makestrouble]

[Helen snickers at that. She did do some pretty shitty things during that week, but it's not like she hasn't done that while not under the influence of a curse.]

Don't we know it! Apparently, they wanted me to cause even more!

[caladcholg]

As I said; I don't think that is possible with you.

[makestrouble]

[Lauuughs!]

Apparently it is!

[caladcholg]

Were your limbs not able to return to their true state?

[TEASE. LINEFACE.]

[makestrouble]

You know! They weren't! And I was stuck like that for a week!

[FFFF SHE'S GONNA PLAY ALONG.]

[caladcholg]

Were they able to tie you to a tree?

[faintlysmile]

Personally I find it annoying to get reacquainted with the mundane when they remember your existence once more.

[caladcholg]

But... Teresa. Sometimes they are good; they are good for situations such as these!

[faintlysmile]

Perhaps so... [Momentary distraction is a go as Teresa realizes she doesn't recognize this particular warrior. Though there is a small sense of familiarity somehow.] You know my name?

1/3 weeeh

[caladcholg]

[Clare is used to running into Teresas here, but not like this.]

Well, yes, I-

[caladcholg]

Do I truly look that unfamiliar?

[caladcholg]

It's me.

Clare.

;;

[faintlysmile]

I- [It hits Teresa like a shock. Even when she tries not to superimpose an image of the child she knew onto the grown woman before her. Even as Teresa takes a step forward she can see the resemblance now.] Truly? ... This was not to be your fate. You should have lived remaining human.

;~;

[caladcholg]

I couldn't.

[Even as she distinctly said "live as a human, Clare", she really couldn't. Clare has been so closed off emotionally, she can't say why.]

I... I am truly sorry, Teresa.

I would apologize, but I really can't ;;

[faintlysmile]

I know.

[There really isn't much she can really say to that and she knows it very well. That what was done, really can't be undone. Nonetheless Teresa's eyes narrow as she tilts her head to the side.]

Why pursue such a choice?

ditto u_u

[caladcholg]

[She will deeply regret this. No one remembers Teresa, other than those who linger from the previous generation -- if they're alive. Only the Organization will know how strong they are.

But Clare will remember the kindness of Teresa and the time they were both happy.]

I could not move on, not after that. I swore... I swore to avenge you.

o/

[poweroflegend]

[A quiet laugh. Partly for his own situation and partly for days long past.]

T'would seem reacquaintance is the order of business nowadays.

[Hi Clare. You're a sight for his sore eyes.]

:D

[caladcholg]

[So are you, but she won't express that too verbally.]

Things change quite rapidly.

\o/ \o/

[poweroflegend]

When they do at all. Not that I object.

[Oh Clare. As Sphinx-like as ever.]

FEELS GOOD, MAN

[caladcholg]

Nonetheless, I am pleased to see you again, Trevor.

[poweroflegend]

And I, you. You've... grown, somehow. Gone forward since we saw each other last.

[Not in any physical sense; he knows that much about you Claymores. It's all in the eyes.]

[caladcholg]

Yes... there has been many things that have happened.

[poweroflegend]

...I take it they haven't all been for the better.

[Not a question.]

[caladcholg]

I'm afraid that it has not, regretfully.

[poweroflegend]

[Did he expect any less from what he's been told of her world?]

I'm sorry to hear that. Truly.

[And though he won't pry:]

Hold fast, my friend. Things might worsen before they get better, but they do get better.

[caladcholg]

You will be pleased to know that my comrades and I are far too stubborn to admit defeat.

[poweroflegend]

'Know'? Make that 'always known'.

[Now that's a trait you've always had in common.]

Even so, I doubt even you could have ever competed with Mother Hen.