‘Then what did you talk about?’ said Dunstan.
‘Mostly, Dennex has been trying to pump me for information. And he’s pretty clever about it, too. I almost told him all sorts of juicy things.’
‘Great.’
‘All in all, he seems like a bit of a stiff, but he’s still way better company than the rest of the reapers around here. Except maybe Overra. But I only got to talk to her a couple times. She’s always busy with Miles.’
‘I thought you hated those two.’
‘Oh, I do. But Overra is a hell of a conversationalist. She’s got a ton of ridiculous stories. Says she knows Tenebrach pretty well, and I believe her. And she’s met most of the strongest Abolishers in battle, too. She and Miles were there at the Battle of Lac’Vayce a few years ago.’
He was pretty sure that was more than a few years ago, but he didn’t bother trying to correct her. ‘Wasn’t that the one where nearly a million people were killed?’
‘Yeah. Lamont and Jackson against Jercash, Ivan, and Gunther. The fight leveled the entire city and completely wrecked the local ecosystem. And Lamont and Jackson almost lost. Barely managed to hold on until Sermung arrived and bailed them out. And Overra was THERE. Can you imagine?’
‘...Yes, I can. Quite easily.’
‘Oh. Well, I suppose this battle is somewhat comparable, but it’s hardly the same scale. Five of the strongest servants in the world all duking it out in one place. Overra said Lac’Vayce won’t be habitable again for hundreds of years. They basically made a mini version of the Dáinnbolg all by themselves.’
He didn’t much care for the way she talked about it as if they’d broken some kind of baseball record, but something caught his eye before he could tell her so.
A figure darted out from behind a building, only visible in the split second it took to reach a line of bushes.
He had a choice between two covered buttons on the arm of his chair. One was for the silent alarm, and the other was for the old analogue bell that would alert the entire compound. He lifted the cover and chose the silent alarm.
Without his binoculars, he surveyed the whole network of streets below, looking for any movement at all.
No more than a minute later, however, Cpt. General Miles appeared right outside the Nest, buffeting its bulletproof glass with a sudden flourish of wind. Overra melted out of the man’s body, and Miles gave Dunstan an unworried smile. “What did you see, Corporal?”
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If Lac'Vayce is completely inhabitable for HUNDREDS OF YEARS then what the hell happened at Dáinnbolg.
ReplyDeleteAnd how the hell do i pronounce these damn words.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible Dáinnbolg is a historical event involving servants, or it may be a mythological event. Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
ReplyDeleteThe silent alarm was definitely the correct choice.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking, at some point in the past, a servant somehow managed to not kill his reaper by accident for long enough to understand the concept of "critical mass", by trial and error if nothing else. And he had a mortal enemy who happened to control radiation, amplifying it and blasting it everywhere in a fight. Toss in another few ancient servants with, perhaps, toxic element transfiguration and materialization abilities, or bioweapon factory mutation abilities, then jack them all up on pan-rozum, and, well. You can see the issue.
ReplyDelete"I saw a spider, can you kill it?" Srry just thought of that and now its sticking =P
ReplyDeleteMaybe some missing words here:
ReplyDelete"Mostly, Dennex [has] been trying to pump me for information."
"he’s still way better company than the rest of [the] reapers around here." (not sure about this, but sounds more familiar this way)
Both fixed, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat would be even better if he had used to bell that wakes the entire base.
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