in the cold, cold ground

[lancifolium]

WHO: Lily Evans & You
WHEN: From late June through early July(ish?)
WHERE: On the road!
WHAT: A catch-all! Travelin, watch keepin, ghostly mystery puzzlin, whatever's clever.
WARNINGS: None as of yet, will update as needed

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[lancifolium]

"I'm Lily, from England." Which did not sound nearly as stately as Hendrik of Heliodor, but if that was how customary introductions went for him, she was glad to accommodate and follow suit. "We both helped Eleven, the night of the siege I think, he's mentioned you before, it's nice to meet you." Even if they were meeting for the first time under such grim circumstances.

She glanced briefly in the direction of some of the ghosts, focusing on them while trying to ignore the loathsome sight of the blood rain - an impossible task, as it was everywhere. "Have you taken to speaking with any of them?" Lily posed the question in a quiet voice, turning her attention back to the knight she was meant to spend this portion of the evening standing guard with.

"There are a few now that know me enough to say hello, but it's very strange, isn't it?" Lily shook her head, realizing the slight tangent she had let herself go on, and shrugging sheepishly. "Ghosts aren't like this where I'm from, to say the very least."

[unswervingcompanion]

The knight nodded politely though he'd never heard of England. But maybe it was as spectacular a place as Heliodor for all he knew. And it gladdened his heart to hear that the Luminary had mentioned him to her, that was kind of him.

"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

He looked over at the ghosts that Lily indicated and shook his head. "I do not know what to say to the deceased." That had been hard for him too when he and the Luminary had gone back to his original home of Zwaardsrust. He'd knelt at his family's grave alone and no words had come to him.

Lily's last statement had him wondering. "So you speak to the dead where you are from?" That was interesting, at least his family's spirits hadn't been wandering, and even when they confronted the Luminary's father trapped as he had been for ages, the knight had said naught to him either.

[lancifolium]

Turning away from Henrik and back to the fire, Lily added a few more pieces of wood to it before huddling into her sweater once more. "Not in so many words. There are," she stopped and looked around them before whispering the word, "ghosts."

"But they're a bit different," continuing in the tone of voice she had been using before she shrugged slightly. "They're, aware - I suppose, of their situation." She cut herself off, unwilling to say more with a few of Arha's soldiers lingering quite so close by.

"Is where you're from anything at all like this place?"

[unswervingcompanion]

Seeing her shiver made Hendrik think as to how to remedy her ailment. So without commenting about ghosts, he turned and started unclasping the ties and took his cloak off.

"If they are aware then they already know they are an abomination to the world of the living." And the knight said it low enough so that they couldn't hear him. "I for one am not sure how they continue in their current..existence." But he wasn't about to let that bother him as he slowly approached Lily with his cloak.

"We have our own monsters." This was said with a nod as he offered the black cloak to her.