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＠Percival
Okay, let's discuss matters as they stand.
[k]
＠Percival
We may have more soldiers to work with thanks to the volunteers from Norwich, but we can't deploy them right away.
[k]
＠Percival
They will likely need more training, and it will take time to establish lines of communication and integrate them into our existing forces.
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＠Da Vinci
Well sure. It'd be foolhardy to send over a hundred new troops into combat without any practical training.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
So does that mean we're going to focus on defense while we train the new troops, instead of making a surprise attack on Woodwose's army?
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＠Percival
That would be the safest option,[sr]if we had time to take it.
[k]
＠Percival
Once the queen sends Woodwose reinforcements, it'll be much more difficult to hold Londinium's line of defense.
[k]
＠Percival
So instead, we're going to pretend to focus on defense while a small squad of elite soldiers from my company...
[k]
＠Percival
...along with Étoile and Kenwood's platoons, take a day to sneak around behind the enemy's forces.
[k]
＠Percival
Once they're ready, I'll send out my company along with the volunteer soldiers from Londinium to pad their numbers.
[k]
＠Percival
Then, while the enemy is focused on Londinium...
[k]
＠Percival
...our unit will ambush Woodwose himself, and take him out.
[k]
＠Percival
Once their clan head has fallen, the other faeries should lose their sense of purpose. It's one of the weaknesses shared by all clan-affiliated faeries.
[k]
[charaFace A 11]
＠Percival
I'm not a huge fan of this strategy, but exploiting that weakness is our best move.
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＠Altria
Then, does that mean we're going to settle this tomorrow night?
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＠Percival
That's right.
[k]
＠Percival
Our assault unit will set out from Londinium before dawn.
[k]
＠Percival
As for all of you, I'd like you to stay here and protect the castle walls, just in case.
[k]
？1：Of course.
？2：What if we went with you?
[charaFace A 4]
＠Percival
I appreciate the offer, but you see, we'll be marching upstream through the river.
[k]
＠Percival
Since none of you are used to traversing that kind of terrain, I'm afraid you'd exhaust yourselves before we even reached our destination...
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＠Da Vinci
Okay, you got it. I think we can be of help defending Londinium.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
You obviously know what you're doing when it comes to skirmishing on level ground...
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＠Da Vinci
...so just leave things here to us and focus on winning your fight.
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＠Percival
I will. Thank you, Lady Da Vinci.
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＠Percival
I swear on this sacred spear that I won't come back without defeating Woodwose.
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＠Habetrot
Hm hm hmm♪ Meow![sr]Hm hm hmm♪ Waah!
[k]
＠Habetrot
Duh-dun! Is that Oberon!?
[k]
＠Habetrot
“Surprised? I might be a half-wit with a perpetual princely smile plastered across his face, but even I fly into a rage if you burn down my domain!”
[k]
＠Habetrot
But uh-oh, Oberon doesn't play fair! The trap he planted in the woods makes a mess of Barghest's shin!
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？1：Habetrot?
？2：Why are you sitting on that desk with a quill pen?
？！
[charaFace D 6]
＠Habetrot
Hm? Oh, it's you, [%1].
[k]
＠Habetrot
I'm just writing in my diary. I have an atrocious memory, so I always write the days' events as entertainingly as possible.
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＠Habetrot
What about you? Why did you come to the war room when nobody else was around?
[k]
[charaFace D 10]
＠Habetrot
Did you feel so guilty about the festivities going on in the town plaza that you thought you'd escape up here?
[k]
？1：...
？2：...You can tell?
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＠Habetrot
You're worried about Mash, right? I get it.
[k]
＠Habetrot
It's easy not to think about her during a battle, but at times like this, you can't help it.
[k]
[charaFace D 7]
＠Habetrot
I know I keep saying this, but you and Mash WILL see each other again. I guarantee it.
[k]
＠Habetrot
I can't tell you where she is or how she's doing...
[k]
＠Habetrot
...but I can tell you she's with someone trustworthy[line 2]a Heroic Spirit from Proper Human History who you've both met before.
[k]
＠Habetrot
All you have to do is help Altria. That's the quickest way you'll be reunited with Mash.
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？1：But, I thought Morgan had taken Mash prisoner.
？！
[charaFace D 9]
＠Habetrot
...Hmm. Looks like no one else is listening right now... So I guess I can tell you this much.
[k]
[charaFace D 0]
＠Habetrot
Yeah, Morgan teleported Mash, but she sent her somewhere not even Morgan herself can touch her.
[k]
＠Habetrot
Morgan can't capture anyone. All she ever does is send them off somewhere else.
[k]
[charaFace D 6]
＠Habetrot
But that's nothing an outsider like you needs to worry about. All you guys have to do is defeat her.
[k]
＠Habetrot
As for me, all I care about is my bride. I'm helping you all as part of helping her.
[k]
＠Habetrot
After all, you can't have a happy bride without a handsome groom, right?
[k]
＠Habetrot
So I can't have you dying on me, for both my and Mash's sakes.
[k]
[charaFace D 1]
＠Habetrot
'Cause my dream is to see off a hundred happy brides!
[k]
？1：I see. That's a good dream.
＠Habetrot
Right? Once I do that, I'll be an expert in brides. That way, I'll have a shot at getting married, too!
[k]
[charaFace D 10]
＠Habetrot
Oh, but watch out for Beryl, you hear? He's technically one of Mash's potential grooms, too.
[k]
？2：So what number is Mash?
[charaFace D 0]
＠Habetrot
Mash makes one.
[k]
[charaFace D 6]
＠Habetrot
I don't know about the Habetrot from Proper Human History, but my dream started with Mash.
[k]
[charaFace D 7]
＠Habetrot
If you know any Servants who are worried about planning their wedding, you'd be doing them a favor by introducing me to them.
[k]
[charaFace D 1]
＠Habetrot
I can tailor any dress, no matter how impossible it seems!
[k]
＠Habetrot
Man, woman, human, monster... Whatever they are, if they dream of being a bride, I'll be there to help!
[k]
？！
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＠Londinium Boy
There she is! Heeey! Hey, you![sr]The really energetic faerie!
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＠Gareth
Huh? Are you talking to me?[sr]Do you not know my name's Gareth?
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＠Londinium Boy
Gareth, huh? What a great name! It's nice and short, but it's also really courageous-sounding!
[k]
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＠Gareth
Uh, thanks. But it's actually[line 2]
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＠Gareth
(It's actually just the name I'm going by...[sr]Nobody actually gave it to me.)
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＠Gareth
Uh, anyway! You're probably here to see Altria, right?
[k]
＠Gareth
It must've been too hard for a kid to break through the throng of soldiers that were surrounding her in the town square earlier, huh?
[k]
＠Gareth
Wait here. I'll go get h[line 2]
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[charaFace O 4]
＠Londinium Boy
Nah, we don't wanna see her. The Child of Prophecy's already got Percival and the grown-ups.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
We just wanna talk to you.
[k]
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＠Gareth
Me!? B-but why would you want to[line 2]
[k]
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＠Londinium Boy
Just come with me, okay? Everyone's waiting for you.
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＠Gareth
Wah! D-don't tug on my sleeve! I'll go with you, okay!?
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＠Children
She's here! Sem brought the charging lady back with him!
[k]
＠Gareth
(Whoa, so many human kids.[sr]They must have come here seeking refuge...)
[k]
＠Gareth
Huh? This is the castle's smithy, right?
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
Yup! We're helping out Granny 'cause there aren't enough grown-ups to go around!
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
Heeey, Nan, I brought her! Come on, do the thing!
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
Yes, yes, I know. Would you mind coming here, young lady?
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
The children asked me to make you a set of armor. I tried to tell them no, but they weren't having it.
[k]
＠Gareth
...Huh? Armor? For me...?
[k]
＠Gareth
Wah! Is this...a mithril shield!? Not even the queen's knights get to use these!
[k]
＠Gareth
Wh-wh-what were you thinking!? I can't accept something so valuable!
[k]
＠Gareth
You should be giving this to Altria! Someone as worthless as me doesn't deserve[line 2]
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
Worthless? Well, that's not nice. You don't believe what these children saw in you?
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
They were all abandoned by Norwich, but they scraped together everything they had to buy the materials for me to make this for you.
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
They know you're not Percival, or the Child of Prophecy. They were entranced by the sight of your tiny form fighting valiantly on the battlefield.
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
Well? Do you still insist you're worthless?
[k]
＠Gareth
...But...I don't even know what kind of faerie I am... I'm just a weird stray.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
So? What does that matter? Faeries are faeries, right? Who cares how you were born or what your role's supposed to be?
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
You protected Londinium for us.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
The first time you came here, you stood up for Yuri when she was crying because she tripped and spilled the fruit in her basket.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
You saved Samaria when she went out to look for food and almost got captured by Woodwose's soldiers.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
Humans who were changed to be kids, like us, have no way of helping out in battle...
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
And we only have around six months left to live.[sr]Nobody else ever protected us.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
But you didn't care about any of that. You still fought as hard as you could to help us.
[k]
＠Londinium Boy
That's why we wanted to thank you. Go on, Samaria.
[k]
＠Londinium Girl
Here you go, Ms. Knight![sr]Thanks for saving us all those times!
[k]
＠Londinium Girl
You're always charging headlong into danger, right? We've been worried about you this whole time!
[k]
＠Londinium Girl
That's why we asked Nan to make you this armor![sr]So you wouldn't get hurt anymore!
[k]
＠Gareth
...Me? You want me to wear this so that I don't get hurt? Even though you guys are covered in bruises?
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
You see? These children don't care at all about what kind of faerie you are.
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
I wasn't of much use anymore in Norwich either, so I ended up here while I was looking for a place to die...
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
But once I had something to do again, it was like I had never left the forge.
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
I used to think our purpose was[sr]something we were born with.
[k]
＠Earth Clan Blacksmith
But the truth is, having people depend on you, or helping those around you can help you become a new person...the person you need to be.
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＠Percival
There you are, Gareth.[sr]Shall we get started with your training?
[k]
＠Percival
Today, I want to work on polishing your charge attack, and the speed that goes into it. You've got good instincts, so you should be able to tell what your opponent is going to do before[line 2]
[k]
[charaFace A 9]
＠Percival
Gareth? Is something wrong?[sr]You don't look very happy.
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＠Gareth
...Oh, no, I'm fine... It's nothing...
[k]
＠Gareth
That's right... It was nothing...
[k]
＠Gareth
What I wanted wasn't to save Britain, or anything so grand as that...
[k]
＠Gareth
It really was nothing... The kind of ordinary thing anyone could do...
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＠Percival
...I see. So those are tears of happiness. I'm glad you found people you care about, and who care about you.
[k]
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＠Percival
Shall we give training a pass then, since it's such an important day?
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＠Gareth
No way! I'm going to train twice as hard now!
[k]
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＠Gareth
I still have a lot of fighting left to do![sr]I'm a knight of Londinium, after all!
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＠Percival
Haha, a knight of Londinium, huh? What a thing to say! You never fail to surprise.
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＠Gareth
Huh...? Don't laugh at me just because you're stronger than I am! It's rude. I'm serious about this.
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＠Percival
Oh, right, I'm sorry.[sr]I guess you wouldn't know about this.
[k]
＠Gareth
?
[k]
[charaFace A 0]
＠Percival
See, the knight of Londinium was actually a specific person back in the Fae Era.
[k]
＠Percival
He was a human king known as the last knight who fought the faerie clans and won...
[k]
＠Percival
...and he was Aesc the Savior's lover.
[k]
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＠Gareth
Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I had no idea! I guess I was the one being rude!
[k]
[charaFace A 1]
＠Percival
Hey, there's nothing wrong with “knight of Londinium.” It's a lot better than “Round Table Army.”
[k]
＠Percival
And for what it's worth, I think it suits you better, too. After all, you really are trying to protect Londinium.
[k]
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＠Gareth
...Um...
[k]
＠Gareth
I didn't say anything back then because I could tell it wasn't a good time...
Humans who were made in Faerie Britain can't survive outside it.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
You've seen a lot of different sides to the land of the fae by now. Well, one of them is those prisons they call human ranches.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
You do know what's really going on at those places, right?
[k]
？1：...They're factories where humans are made.
？！
[charaFace B 24]
＠Da Vinci
Right. The large facility Altria told us not to look at was a giant human manufacturing plant.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
At first, I thought they were being[sr]made just like homunculi...
[k]
＠Da Vinci
I've realized, as I've been studying the humans here, that isn't the case.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Every human here is a clone made from rearranging the DNA of one human.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Even though they started out with only one human for the base material, they were able to come up with hundreds of millions of variations over repeated rearrangements and duplications.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Enough variations to rival the sheer variety of people found in Proper Human History.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
The difference is that humans made here can't reproduce, and their life spans are predetermined.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
I don't think the life span part was intentional. There's probably only so much their cells can take.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
When I first got to Salisbury, I remember finding it odd that there weren't any elderly humans around.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
There were plenty of elderly faeries, sure, but no elderly humans.
[k]
？1：But, that alone isn't enough reason to say they can't survive, right?
？！
[charaFace B 14]
＠Da Vinci
True. The real proof rests in the era that original human was born.
[k]
[charaFace B 25]
＠Da Vinci
The Era of the High Queen[line 2]Morgan's reign, began after the Tree of Emptiness died.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
When she took over Britain, it became a Lostworld instead of a Lostbelt[line 2]a whole other Chronicle Theoretical Phenomenon, basically.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
That means anything born in this era could survive in Proper Human History, too.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
But Fae Era Britain was a Lostbelt supported by a Tree of Emptiness, and subject to the Pruning Theoretical Phenomenon.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Anything born in a Lostbelt can't survive outside it.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Of course, if a being is able to cross that boundary into a higher-level phenomenon, like being inscribed in the Throne of Heroes, that would let them survive in Proper Human History as well...
[k]
＠Da Vinci
But obviously, that's not the kind of thing just anyone can do.
[k]
[charaFace B 24]
＠Da Vinci
...This is just speculation on my part,[sr]but I'd guess this Britain didn't originally have humans.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Now that they've been essentially created here, faeries and humans have switched roles.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Here, faeries are real, and humans are the fantastical, made-up creatures.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
That's why humans from Faerie Britain can't survive in reality-based Proper Human History.
[k]
[charaFace B 0]
＠Da Vinci
...Whatever feelings you have about how humans are treated here are yours.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
You can want to change things, or you can want to give up. But you shouldn't impress your own morality upon them.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Even if their lives seem like a fleeting illusion to outsiders, they're still very real to them.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
As for their age limits, well, every life-form's time has to come to an end someday.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
It's kind of sad that these people won't get more time, sure, but that's all it is. Sad. It's nothing you need to grieve over.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
The important thing in everyone's life is where they're trying to go, and how far they manage to get.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
And I don't mean literal physical distance. I mean a big-picture reason to exist.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
The kind of ultimate destination point that says, “This is the kind of species we were.”
[k]
？1：...
[charaFace B 37]
＠Da Vinci
Hey now. Why do you look like you're about to cry?
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Didn't I just say it's nothing to grieve over?
[k]
？2：Honestly, I'm not entirely sure I fully grasp what you said.
[charaFace B 29]
＠Da Vinci
Well of course. I'm a peerless genius created by a peerless genius, you know.
[k]
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＠Da Vinci
...Anyway, I'm more worried about the opposite situation.
[k]
[charaFace B 5]
＠Da Vinci
Humans from Faerie Britain might not be able to leave, but faeries could if they wanted to.
[k]
＠Da Vinci
Just like how Morgan said she was[sr]going to expand her territory...
[k]
＠Da Vinci
...there could be faeries here who would want to come over into Proper Human History.
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And if one of them should be evil enough to be considered an Evil of Humanity[line 2]
In general, legends like these that have been passed down in Faerie Britain are prophecies made by the Mirror clan.
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So there's a very good chance this mural is based on one of those very prophecies...
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One where the six clans gather around to worship an enormous beast in a land with no gods.
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...I didn't say anything when we first found this mural because there were so many other people around...
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...but look at these markings underneath it.
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The faeries here probably don't know what it says because it's not written in faerie language...
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But these are probably hieroglyphics, which predate even the Hebrew writing system.
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I'm guessing they were either written here about fourteen-thousand years ago, during one of Proper Human History's ancient civilization eras...
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...or, someone used them deliberately, and more recently, to pass on a message that would only be understood in the future, and only by humans at that.
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？1：...Can you read them?
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Of course. They form a single word:
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...Cernunnos.
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It's the name of an ancient Celtic god...and proof that gods did once exist in the land of the fae.
