feigns: (such a heavy heart; a heavy jewel hiding)
ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ ʜᴇʀᴏɴᴅᴀʟᴇ. ([personal profile] feigns) wrote2011-09-04 11:15 pm

► five → video/action。

[Will is in Xanadu, and currently lazing about beneath a tree, an apple in hand — green, for the record, rather than gold. He looks, it has to be said, exceptionally comfortable and contented.

He's also full of complete and utter crap.]


When I awoke this morning, I had the strongest urge to travel to the north, perhaps to the coast, or at least to a cliff. There, I imagined I would face a dragon with a hundred heads, and an array of beautiful, young women, dancing and singing.

Alas, nothing went quite as I expected — although I dare say that viewed from the right angle and considering his temper, the gentleman — in as much as he can be considered as such; I consider the description to be erring on the side of exceptional kindness — I happened upon could very well be viewed as in the same mould. Of course, perhaps if I hadn’t got lost it would have been a different story entirely — he might have still been sleeping. And I’d hardly describe the women, pretty as they were, as nymphs.

But then, as I recall, disappointment did nothing but await him, either. [A beat, and Will eyes the apple in his hand for a moment.] Or a sense of futility, at any rate. Fortunately, I suppose, Athena’s yet to make any claim on the apples, and I can continue feeling both like Hercules and Eurystheus.

—I suppose it’s a curse, and I can’t say I have any intention of complaining. I could have felt a burning desire to clean stables.

(ooc: anyone’s free to assume that Will nicked the apples from them, or come across him in the park or. anything.)

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Then it's lucky I prefer gin.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
To the gentleman go the poison spoils!

1/3

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Back... to...?

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
-- oh. I called you for the fool you are, the waste, the nightmare, the disgrace, and not Galahad, no, nor Narcissus the neither, Roland perhaps, we'll find you a Tower, or raise you one. Can it be only the slightest bit tall? You'll fancy it tall, prettier to set ablaze, it'll shine like a torch, you'll love it. And of course you're not a gentleman.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry, so sorry, ever sorry. I'd forgot.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you don't expect me to try and prove you wrong.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
About the tall tower? Oh, no. No, no, no. Bigger is better.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
And what? Should I go there to seek my sister, taken by the King of Elfland? I've no sword.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, a bit of iron here, some carbon, a bloomery, and you're done! Now, go make yourself fine steel!

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
And all the doubt was now — should I be fit?

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no interest in asking them anything.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That wouldn't be the first time I've been called something to that effect.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Steal a heart, then take that criticism to it.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That could pose more of a problem, of course, depending on whether you're speaking literally or metaphorically. I've stolen plenty of working hearts if we're speaking in terms of the latter.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes, of course Narcissus has - the former, you fool.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...well, well. The time for that is ripe.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not something I indulge in.

[identity profile] shall-yield-us.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Says the not-gentleman, embracing the conceit of Free Will.

[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I shouldn't imagine I'd do anything else with it.