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[trueltning_fury]

[oh hey that brings up something far more interesting than Nadir...

Geddoe leans closer across the table.]

Were you involved in that war at all? I thought he had a lot of guts putting on a play using historical events that people present might have actually participated in.

[latkje]

Not that part of it. I was assigned to Dunan back in '60, though. [ A pause, as he mulls something over. For once, he doesn't drink. ]

And Sierra is my wife.

[trueltning_fury]

[boy it's a good thing he wasn't drinking just at that moment, there would be ale everywhere. Geddoe freezes in place and stares. He was wandering the continent, still, at the time of the Dunan Unification War, stayed out of it but knew enough of it to know the major players.]

...you're shitting me.

[it's all he can say, even though he's pretty sure Nash is absolutely not shitting him. Sure puts their earlier discussion of the longsuffering wife into perspective, doesn't it?]

[latkje]

[ He thinks about it— putting a gloved finger on his chin. ]

No, I don't think so.

[ It would a pretty good joke, if he weren't the punchline. ]

[trueltning_fury]

[just shaking his head]

I've heard rumors. Does she, in fact, have a True Rune?

[he'll have to take back everything he was blathering about earlier, for when Runebearers hook up with mortals]

[latkje]

Didn't you see the play? That was something they got right.

[trueltning_fury]

I didn't, must have been one of those times I was off with Hugo. I distinctly remember Futch having opinions about it. That was when I had to wonder who else around the castle might have been involved.

[latkje]

Like I said, I wasn't. [ Only a substitute Flik. ] You could try talking to Lilly Pendragon. [ She'd had definite opinions and no hesitation making them known. ]

[trueltning_fury]

[talk to Lily? He's not thatcurious]

Wait..he cast you in a play that distinctly involved your wife. Don't tell me he cast you as Neclord.

[equal parts hilarious and awkward, sorry man]

[latkje]

No. I wanted to be Sierra.

[ Of course he did. ]

[trueltning_fury]

Of course, because you could probably pull off the dress better than Chris.

[Nadir please...although this is an even better story than drunken duck Nash so]

[latkje]

I'm a little tall. [ He gestures to himself, absently. ] But a theater director shouldn't be scared of imagination.

[trueltning_fury]

You can at least give him credit for imagining you as a sheep. [with the slightest sly look over his tankard] Better than the wolf, I suppose.

Well. So all my theoretical rambling about getting involved with Rune users was just so much hot air, was it? You already know how that works.

[latkje]

Don't worry. Many people have made the mistake of thinking I don't know what I'm talking about.

[ He grins. ]

[trueltning_fury]

In my defense, the number of people in the world who've had to actually deal with that situation is fairly small, it's a safe assumption to make even if it's wrong.

...you're okay with it?

[he honestly never asked Sana about it. Maybe some part of him still blames her for stealing away his best friend. Shh don't remind him that grudges need to be let go of. Either way Nash seems like the kind of guy he can ask and get a fair answer without too much awkwardness.]

[latkje]

I'm an adult fully capable of making my own bad decisions.

[ It was something he wanted to do, so he did it. ]

[trueltning_fury]

It was merely a question, not a judgment.

[you do you, Nash. Though, his face turns placid, it's an answer he can live with. None of this 'you just don't understand how pure love transcends time' or some similar bullshit.]

Nothing like runes to throw an extra complication into life.

[latkje]

[ He shrugs. What can you do? ]

Would you prefer it if things were simple?

[ Nash isn't sure that he would. ]

[trueltning_fury]

Sometimes.

[he's smart but he also feels like things are far easier to handle when you know who to jab your sword into.]

I'm getting old, Nash. Some days it's just not worth having to think too hard.

[latkje]

Then don't think too hard. [ Finally, he takes a sip of his drink. ] Most people don't, it can't be too difficult.

[trueltning_fury]

[HOW GODDAMN TRUE IS THAT. Geddoe smirks and raises his mug in toast to such a deep and essential observation. If this conversation is any indication, this mission may not be so terrible after all. He and Nash can get into all kinds of existential tangles and reminiscence of wars gone by while they make their way north and west, it won't be boring at all.]

[latkje]

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