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agentlenet2019-03-16 11:43 am
championbittersweet) wrote in agentlenet2019-03-16 11:43 am
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[It's early evening and the video shows Jonathan's room, the heavy curtains blocking out the waning daylight and the room lit by a single light. He's seated at a desk, papers spread out before him but clearly his attention isn't on them. Jonathan himself looks markedly better since the last time people may have seen him; there's colour in his skin and while he still looks slightly starved, there's nothing of the hungry expression in his eyes.]
The Lady Fayura and her court have been particularly helpful but have also made certain... factors clear to me. So I feel honesty is the best policy here. Rational thought and decision only.
[He settles forward to rest his weight on his elbows, pale blue eyes fixed on the far-caster.]
I am not human. As unbelievable as it may seem, after I returned to London following the war I was attacked, murdered, and reborn as what I am now. A creature of death and blood that must survive on the living.
[He says it so calmly, matter-of-fact in his delivery.]
I try not to feed on humans but it has been made clear to me that this will no longer work, and animals are not enough to survive on. My hunger cannot be so easily ignored here despite my efforts so I am asking a... favour, a show of trust, if any would be willing to make it.
The Lady Fayura and her court have been particularly helpful but have also made certain... factors clear to me. So I feel honesty is the best policy here. Rational thought and decision only.
[He settles forward to rest his weight on his elbows, pale blue eyes fixed on the far-caster.]
I am not human. As unbelievable as it may seem, after I returned to London following the war I was attacked, murdered, and reborn as what I am now. A creature of death and blood that must survive on the living.
[He says it so calmly, matter-of-fact in his delivery.]
I try not to feed on humans but it has been made clear to me that this will no longer work, and animals are not enough to survive on. My hunger cannot be so easily ignored here despite my efforts so I am asking a... favour, a show of trust, if any would be willing to make it.
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Sure, doc, I'm in! [ someone's gotta show some dead person solidarity around here... besides, if he was murdered and then came back different, that sucks even more, leo just basically orchestrated his own death and then came back from the underworld the exact same as he'd been. so. he definitely owes some karma here.
though then he thinks, ]
I mean, I'm not sure if demigod blood is better or worse than human blood, but it's worth a try, right?
video;
Demigod? [That was not what he'd expected to hear anywhere really.] You can't be serious.
video;
You think I'd joke about that? [ he grins. ] 100% pure demigod right here, son of Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes!
[ his expression turns puzzled. ] ... huh. I swear I didn't know half of those things like two seconds ago. [ it's just. hardwired in them to know stuff about their parentage. just like percy automatically knows the depths and lengths of all rivers and whatnot. ]
video;
The Greek gods are myth, stories from long ago. You cannot be descended from them.
[That should do it.]