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Jan. 4th, 2006 05:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
latino_menaceRamon's out by the lake, despite it being early. There had been no sleep and he got Random to let him into the bar as soon as the sun came up. So he's out there, sitting on a rock - coincidentally, the same one he'd been sitting on when Arithon came to find him after the Valar duel. Just like then, he's smoking and the smoke hangs in the still air while he stares out over the water.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:30 am (UTC)He says quietly,
"They changed their minds. I do not know why. Now that they have decided you will do...well. They are looking out for me. I do not wish to be what they need me to be, not all of it."
Then he shrugs, and grins helplessly at Ramon,
"We have time to decide."
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:35 am (UTC)He has no qualms about admitting what he is. Why should he? Everyone knows and he's not ashamed of being a sociopath. It amuses him rather.
'Do you have any plans at the moment? To go back or anything similar? I know you and Bianca will be adjusting for a while, but after that?'
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:38 am (UTC)He looks up at Ramon, shakes his head, and laughs softly,
"This is most likely why you were chosen. It...bothers me, but no more than it would if anyone else had to do what needs to be done. You understand."
And then he shakes his head more firmly,
"No plans, not yet. This has us reeling."
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:43 am (UTC)Although every murder he commits is for a reason. Like - he was in a bad mood. Or someone lost him some money. Or he was drunk and decided to chuck someone off a plane. That sort of thing.
He grins suddenly at him. 'You with a baby. It'll be interesting to watch. I don't think there'll be a more protective father in any universe.'
It occurs to him that he'll have to get used to kids again. Yuk.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:46 am (UTC)"I...would not be surprised if you are right. I like children."
The bright, young smile of his flashes out and he leans back,
"It will be up to Bianca how many, but I would like to have several children."
He isn't thinking about lifespans. He will continue to not think about lifespans.
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Date: 2006-01-04 06:49 am (UTC)Something Asandir said has been on his mind since he said it, and he figures he might as well ask.
'Look, the sorceror said something about my kids when he did this thing to me. I wasn't really paying attention because - well, he'd just done it, you know? Something about them possibly having to do the job as well? Do you know what he meant?'
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Date: 2006-01-05 02:47 am (UTC)The little prince says with a shrug,
"However, you are to live five hundred years. I would worry more about your great grandchildren times several generations."
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Date: 2006-01-05 02:56 am (UTC)Because there's a good chance that'll be the case.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:02 am (UTC)Arithon says dryly,
"He will manage."
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:06 am (UTC)He doesn't say it. Not to Arithon. So he just shrugs it off and says, 'Well, it's years away. No need to worry about it yet.'
And no, the thought that he'll oulive his children either hasn't occurred to him, or doesn't bother him.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:11 am (UTC)"Very true. How were your holidays?"
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:25 am (UTC)There's no words really. Just...well, it was home.
'...perfect. And he loved it.'
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:27 am (UTC)He asks, with real interest. Arithon enjoys new places. Usually people in places he hasn't been before aren't trying to kill him.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:40 am (UTC)'It's my favourite of the properties I own. In the mountains - they're called the Andes - overlooking Bogota, which is the capital of Columbia. It's empty at the moment as I'm supposed to be in prison, but it's a huge place. And there's a lot of land, I usually have a lot of livestock there. There's fields that stretch up the mountainside and some of them are fairly flat - and there's a place, I took Random to it, where you can stand right on the very edge of the mountain, on a ledge and there's nothing around you...and it looks over the valley that the city is in. Just...it's the most beautiful view there is.'
He really does love that place, even more so now that he can't really go there.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:42 am (UTC)"My hopes that you may return to it, soon."
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:48 am (UTC)'Well. Random's taking me back soon to sort some things out with Hector. And eventually I'll be working for you so...' He shrugs. '...guess I won't be seeing that much of it in the future.'
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:51 am (UTC)Arithon looks at Ramon wryly,
"Say, rather, for Rathain. It is not in the nature of caith'd'ein to listen overmuch to their kings. There are five hundred years. Plus the time spent here, it does not count in the five hundred."
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:00 am (UTC)Of course, now he's wondering what that means for the thing with Martin, and sighing all over again. But he does say, 'That's right, Asandir was pretty clear on the fact that I'd have to do what i thought was best for you.' He glances over. 'And I will. If I have to knock you unconscious to get you away from somewhere, I will.'
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:04 am (UTC)He says, not rubbing the back of his head and neck. He's worked hard to get rid of that particular twitch,
"I hope to not make it a need. I do not like headaches."
Yet another situation that Arithon knows nothing about. Which is fine, because he'd fret for all three of them.
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:09 am (UTC)And he won't find out anything about that situation either.
'Did Bar give you your Christmas presents from Random and I?'
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:10 am (UTC)"I have not really been in the bar, yet. Just long enough to say goodbye to Jiask, help Asandir make Bianca human..."
Which deserves another moment of giddy silence,
"And get cider."
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:14 am (UTC)He hesitates for a second, then asks, 'Didn't hurt her did it? The change back?'
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:17 am (UTC)He says after a moment,
"And, yes. It did. Something which rode her for five centuries was removed. How could it not hurt? She does not even remember what it is like to have to breathe all the time. She is not used to the hundreds of small aches which are part of every day life."
A deep breath, and a shrug,
"But we will go, and see her house by sunlight."
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:24 am (UTC)He really is so happy for his brother. And no, he doesn't have any qualms about thinking of him that way any more.
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:26 am (UTC)He grins at Ramon again, and then looks at the empty cup,
"I should go back to her...she has not eaten in five hundred years."
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:28 am (UTC)He leads the way back to the bar and really, things are pretty damn good right now, he feels.
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Date: 2006-01-05 04:30 am (UTC)Usually the royalty leads.