This is the beginning

[emorangerblack.livejournal.com]

[A small object suddenly emerges from behind the horizon and blazes through the sky, followed by a comet-like trail. It crashes aboard the White Chalice's deck, revealing itself to be... a pair of humans clad in armor. The armor being Black Cloud and the Great Pretender, to be precise.]

I promised... to return...

1.
[Reactions for witnessing the crash come here. Devon and Laura's armors disappear almost immediately, and they lie down on the deck without strength to even get up. Exhausted, wounded and even somewhat singed they may look... but they are definitely alive and conscious.]

2.

[Some time later, once someone mercifully dragged Devon along to the medical bay - she'll be busy lying in bed and recuperating from the recent hell she went through. Still, the bandaged Shifter is good enough for visits.]

3.

[Same as #2, but for Laura. Just as Devon, she is worn out and injured, but the medical staff predicts she will make a full recovery soon enough. Although she has an eyepatch on.]

4.

[Locked to Cheng, and happening BEFORE prompt #2.

The Shifter still had some unfinished business before she could collapse. Mustering what little remains of her strength, she stumbled in a zombie-like gait to wherever her husband was at the time.

And once she makes it there, she just stands in the doorway. And stares.]

Comments

[emorangerpink]

More tired than I think I've ever been in my life... Resnick.

But... good. It's done. I did it. There's a weight come off my shoulders that I didn't realize was there. I thought it was just part of who I was, and now it's... gone. It feels good.

[an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com]

I did tell you you would overcome it. Is there anything you wish me to bring you?

[emorangerpink]

No... thank you. For now, I just need rest. And what the medics give me. [There is what appears to be a plush Space Needle under her arm, but that's hardly the sort of thing to ask a grizzled Mechwarrior for.]

Or... a book would be good. Something from your cultural research, or from the Clans.

[an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com]

[On the contrary, he's suffering from an overabundance (http://srwug-alpha-rp.livejournal.com/261009.html#comments) of plush. He looks confused, perhaps a bit happy that she's interested in his culture. He disappears for a few minutes and returns with two books: the one he just finished (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies), which was reccomended to him over the original for obvious reasons, and a weathered looking copy of the Clan Wolf Remembrance (http://www.sarna.net/wiki/The_Remembrance), the epic poem that captures their history.]

[emorangerpink]

[Laura thanks him warmly. She opts not to ask whether the Remembrance is anything like as distorted a window in to his culture as the other text is to hers...]

I think this will probably leave me with more questions about your people than it answers... but so long as you don't mind me asking a few of them later, it should be very interesting.

[an-alpha-wolf.livejournal.com]

[It probably is, in that sacred books rarely capture the whole truth. But it's fundemental to understanding clanner psychology.]

I would not mind. Be careful with it though. That copy has been with me since I was a sibbie.

[Later he'll put two and two together and bring her one of the larger stuffed animals.]