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＠Altria Caster
...Ahh. I can still hear the bell ringing.
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＠Altria Caster
Even though it's been half a day...[sr]Even though everyone smiled and praised me...
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＠Altria Caster
Whenever I close my eyes...I can feel that sound, like something grabbing my head from behind.
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＠Altria Caster
It feels like this ringing may never go away.
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＠Altria Caster
Another Britain, from a world called Proper Human History. Another version of me, though one entirely unlike me.
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＠Altria Caster
An imposing figure, neither mage nor faerie, but a child born to human and dragon.
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＠Altria Caster
Altria Pendragon.
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＠Altria Caster
The Ideal King who unified the lords of Britain, protected it from outside invaders...
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＠Altria Caster
...and built the towering white castle of Camelot.
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＠Altria Caster
She was loved and trusted by all...
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＠Altria Caster
...and she shone brighter and more righteous than anyone else.
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＠Altria Caster
With her twelve Knights of the Round Table, her many loyal cavalries, and her ■■■■■■■■■ in hand, she laid the foundation for countless futures.
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＠Altria Caster
...She was a truly great woman.[sr]I've never seen her like.
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＠Altria Caster
I don't want to see her. I don't want to be shown her. I can't handle it. I can't believe it. I can't accept it.
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＠Altria Caster
After all...
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＠Altria Caster
I'm the only one of my kind. I have nowhere to run. No one understands me. Romance is out of the question.
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＠Altria Caster
There's no reward. No finish line. No rest. I can't make so much as a single mistake.
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＠Altria Caster
Ahh... So many things I'll never have.
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＠Altria Caster
How cruel would I have to be for everyone to accept a king like me with a smile?
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＠Altria
...Oh, it's morning. I guess we must have covered a lot of ground overnight...
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＠Altria
I had the craziest dream. It must be because I rang one of the Bells of Pilgrimage.
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＠Altria
...[wt 1.0]...[sr]...[wt 1.0]...Ahh.
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＠Altria
...That life is no joke.
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？1：Well, that was nice. While we were rocking[csr]back and forth in the carriage[line 2]
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＠Da Vinci
We almost made it back to Londinium overnight![sr]Good thing we didn't run into any trouble, huh!?
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＠Oberon
I see. So you used the cover of night to get to Norwich without drawing attention.
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＠Oberon
And for the return trip, we were lucky enough to get a horse-drawn carriage.
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＠Oberon
The queen might technically prohibit animals from being used for manual labor, but there's no real penalty for doing so.
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＠Oberon
Right now, only the clan heads have horse-drawn carriages, but who knows? Eventually, everyone might start using them. I guess this is how trends get started.
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＠Oberon
All that said, I wonder why the queen banned horse-drawn carriages in the first place. Does she just love horses?
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＠Habetrot
That's part of it, but it's mostly another way to keep faeries in line. If horse-drawn carriages became commonplace, faerie horses would stop being born.
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＠Habetrot
Faeries are both cruel and innocent, you know.
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＠Habetrot
As soon as something like that becomes popular,[sr]we stop seeking out anything else.
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＠Habetrot
I mean, it's been two-thousand and nineteen years since we started seriously copying human culture, right?
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＠Habetrot
The fact that horses like Redra Bit and Percival's dear Kundry are still alive and well is proof of Morgan's consideration.
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＠Da Vinci
Ahh, now I see.[sr]So there's work involved in maintaining Mystics.
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＠Da Vinci
So Morgan is fine with imitating human society...
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＠Da Vinci
...but she won't allow any cultural imitations that would risk eliminating entire swathes of faerie ecology.
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＠Senji Muramasa
...Gotta say, that's pretty smart of her.
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＠Senji Muramasa
Guess she's more than just a cruel queen out to squeeze her citizens for everything they have.
