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[Redglare is looking a bit more bedraggled today, and oddly dressed. In fact, she looks a little more pirate-y than she used to. Well, a lot more pirate-y. Okay completely pirate-y. BUT SHE IS NOT A PIRATE. She is a woman of the law, even if it is her own law.

There are breeches and a white shirt and a vest and an impressively long coat, though she is missing a hat. In place of her glasses, there is a ragged strip of cloth tied around her eyes, because even like this she is blind. She is up on the highest place she can get to in the Mansion, which is of course the roof, and she shouting enough to bring the sky down. At least, if the sky was brave enough to come down and face her, which is clearly isn't.]

You! All of you! You sit under the thrall of this queen, of this land like dogs! Do you not want to find out why you are here‽ Why are you simply content to simply lay in the lap of luxury? Do you think it is fair to endure hellhounds and worse‽ You claim to want freedom, but you are simply content here doing little and gaining little and doing nothing to take it for yourselves!

[The speech goes on for SOME TIME. It is long, angry and by the end of it her throat is sore and her voice sounds raspy. It's amazing how much confidence someone who is shouting on a roof to the populace can exude, no matter how shabby their clothes.]

The items you have gained and the experiences you have gained... Are they really worth the things you have lost? Your worlds? Your friends? Your memories?

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You're jumping to some annoying conclusions.

Really? Am I?

Tell me, what have you been doing lately? Find anything out about this place and it's residents, hm? Well, have you?

...I gained some friends here, too.

[He wouldn't have met them at home.

Souji's as quiet as normal, but there's a nervous, ashamed edge to it. Addressing Redglare is especially daunting, because he knows that, of his friends here, she's the most likely to never forgive him for what he's done. It seems a little odd that he hasn't ever told her before, but right now it just feels like he has to give her the opportunity to hear about it and come clean. Even if she might behead him or something.]

[Her enthusiasm flags, because truth be told, she has as well. He is one of her closest friends if she is honest. But it only flags for a moment before she's right at it again. These things are important after all.]

I have as well, but there are matters to attend to in my world. Things to be done! I cannot simply leave Alternia and it's people to deal with pirates and a tyrannical monarch!

You will go back though, won't you? Or...

[He knew from her previous stay that she'd died.]

...Can you?

Yep.

Guarding against hellhounds, watching for clues as to which Queen is to blame, helping my friends...

Just point me to the exit, miss, and I'm gone.

Aye? And what is it you suggest we do about it, eh?

I'LL HELP! I'LL FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM WE RIGHTFULLY DESERVE!

As if either of the queens are to blame! They do not control the flow of odd goings-on. The fact that they are still Queens at all is shocking!

[Redglare straightens up and snaps:]

Of course I can and I will. I have a duty and I will not shirk it.

[Because she hasn't died, not yet. She's been terrorizing pirates for centuries, worrying The Condesce, who thinks she will go away if slandered and ignored. Not to say she doesn't have the occasional assassin, but she is so very hard to sneak up on.]

Edited 2013-08-21 23:35 (UTC)

Do you intend to help, or allow others to do the work?

REVOLT!

EXCELLENT!

The revolution needs people like you! Boisterous and enthusiastic!

[Susan wasn't one for grandiose Causes, that particular desire was weeded out of her psyche years ago, but she was from Ankh-Morpork. Any Morporkian worth anything knew to keep an eye out for people shouting about Causes, whether or not they agreed with what was being shouted. This wasn't because the people of Ankh-Morpork were particularly political (they were, but that was beside the point), but rather because they loved Street Theater.

Anybody who shouted inflammatory things loud enough and long enough was guaranteed to become a Spectacle. (Spectacles, particularly when they were attached to something disagreeable, were bound to find themselves on the wrong end of a fist eventually.)

So, Susan listened to the woman ranting for several minutes. After a while, when she realized just where this Activist was, she decided to get a front row seat and made her way up to the roof. Unfortunately, it seemed like she was the only one who'd arrived in person. To make matters more dull, she'd arrived at the end of the ranting.

Damn.

Well, she was here and there was nothing for it, so Susan walked up to Redglare and cocked a brow.]

Generally, when people shout their objections on rooftops, they have a Plan. So, out with it.

If we're going to oust the monarchy we might as well do it quickly.

[That is too much of a surprise for him to let it slide.]

How can you? Weren't you killed?

[And at that? At that, she BRISTLES.]

Absolutely not! Though not for lack of trying I assure you. I've become quite the thorn in Her Imperial Condescension's side, for that matter. It's rather hard to kill someone when they've got a massive dragon on their side.

[Redglare jumps into explanation quickly, and explains everything in a rather rapid-fire manner. She had gotten into the habit of giving lectures on Alternia to anyone who would listen, though she hardly expected them to follow her. She talks fast and turns to sniff at the sky every once in a while for humanoid figures garbed in charcoal-black. Her lectures on Alternia never lasted long.]

My general plan was to lop the heads off of both queens. If we're being generally honest here, the Queen of Hearts is particularly tyrannical in her goals. She's got both the Vorpal Sword and Shield and honestly she's probably going to invade any day now. The Red Queen seems harmless at best, from what I've seen, but if there would be a vaccuum I have no doubt that she'd fill it, and we cannot have that.

[She clenches and unclenches her grip around her cane and paces back and forth as she speaks.]

Then, afterwards, perhaps we could get started on making a fair and equal sort of governing body where everyone is held accountable for their actions. [And highbloods didn't get away with murdering perfectly innocent bystanders simply because of their blood color. But that isn't something that applies here.]

[Souji would question further, but he's pretty sure he actually insulted her just now. Also, she didn't go into much detail when she told him about it, so he's not sure exactly how he'd go about that line of questioning.]

If your queen's annoyed, you must be doing something right.

[Being from Ankh-Morpork, Susan is very pro-beheading-royalty. Now, this may seem at odds with the fact that Susan, herself, is titled nobility...but, in the grand tradition of the Discworld, she also believed that any titled figure who couldn't prevent their own beheading didn't deserve to keep either. So, as the woman ranted her general plan, Susan frowned thoughtfully. She wasn't certain she'd agree that the Queen of Hearts was a proper Tyrant, or that there could be a fair and equal governing body, since those three terms tended to be mutually exclusive, but you couldn't have everything.]

Certainly a doddering Queen is just as harmful as a malicious one, but beheading might be a bit much. I expect a proper scorpion pit would suffice.

I'M WELL TRAINED TOO-- [ fuck this yelling out windows shit, he's just going to 3DMG it to the roof. ]

I've spent several years--

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What the hell are you--

[ whoops, stumbling off the edge of the roof bye ]

[Oh for fuck's sake...

Redglare is over towards him in a flash, cane left unfortunately behind yet standing straight up for some reason. She grabs him by the front of his shirt and hauls him up like a scruffed kitten.]

Well-trained individuals don't stumble off of roofs like novices.

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If I could only get her attention long enough to draw her down to the planet and kill her...

Unfortunately, I cannot. So I am waiting for the next heir to present herself. Then I will set my sights on teaching her and training her, provided I can get her away from Gl'bgolyb or somehow find a way to breathe underwater.

[She has been spending time around wrigglers for that express purpose, though not overmuchly. She needs to up her tolerance if she is going to instruct a future heir.]

A scorpion pit? Some sort of human tradition, I assume? Well, it might wort, provided she is less resilient than an Alternian would be.
I once knew a troll with a massive scorpion for a lusus. Ridiculously immune to poison, which is probably why assassins stop bothering after the fifteenth attempt and just outright shot him in the head with a crossbow bolt. Shame, that.

[Still, Redglare does consider the idea, twirling her cane idly.]

But where would we even get that many scorpions...

You'll manage it one way or another.

[He's really never known anyone as driven as Redglare.]

I'm just surprised. I thought Legislacerators worked for the government. [But what does he know about troll bureaucracy.]

There is no doubt about the matter, only how it will be accomplished.

[She will see Alternia free or die trying, and she knows how likely the latter is, but the Empire would not take her back now and she will not go groveling at the feat of the Grand Highblood. Never.]

I gave up on the prospect of being an official Legislacerator when I was just into adulthood. I am a better help to the cause as I am.

I'd help if I could.

[If there were really a way out, that is to say.]

...That's weird. I could have sworn you were one...

[He usually has a good memory for this stuff.]

It seems like I'm remembering things differently about everyone. Even people from my own world.

I consider it. I completed my basic training, but in the end what they were asking for was simply vile and I could not do it. So I did not, and I killed the individuals who asked me to.

[Redglare chews on her lower lip.]

You are Souji Seta still, correct? You apprehended a criminal, once. One who was murdering people in your town.

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Would you help find it in the first place?

I've looked. Believe me.

[ Jack gives a nod because, strangely enough, he got that part. ]

And, uh. How might we be revolting?

[Souji freezes up for a second, then shakes his head slowly.]

I um...

No. He wasn't apprehended.

[Susan, who was used to this sort of rambling, didn't comment as the grey woman continued on. Besides, even if she'd wanted to, there was little to correct. Scorpion pits, if anything, were a time-honored human tradition.]

Yes, that's always the trouble isn't it?

[Susan had no answer for that question, unfortunately. The closets could provide quite a lot of something, but she couldn't hold with magical scorpions. Something about that just violated the spirit of the thing.]

A crossbow would be effective and efficient, but not very Theatrical. [She frowned slightly.] Definitely less messy than beheading, at any rate.

Killing the queen, imprisoning or murdering any and all loyal subjects, setting up a government for and by the people, among other things.

What? I could have sworn you told me otherwise! What happened? Tell me.

Ah, you have. But you haven't looked with me.

I suppose if you humans so desperately wanted, we could probably find some sort of substitute. Perhaps a pool filled with some sort of aquatic carnivorous gillmonster?

[However, Redglare waves off the idea of an execution that is too messy. While she is mostly used to burning her enemies to a crisp, being covered in the blood of her enemies is something she adores.]

A mess is hardly an issue. There is glory in beheading an adversary, worthy or not.

...He got away.

[There's a long, long pause, before he adds:] I let him go.

What. [Her nostrils flare and she can feel heat spreading on her face.]

What?

Why would you let him go after everything he had done? I thought so much better of you!

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....It was a mistake.

[He's aware that this pretty much ends him with her and the thought scares him.]

I thought he was a friend and...I made the wrong decision.

[ Jack gives another nod. He seems more amused than anything else. ]

Seems like you got it all figured out, luv.

What difference does that make?

If we were anywhere else... If you were anyone else, you would be half-dead by now.

Souji, criminals are Not Your Friends! They are the enemy and they must be punished and you let. One. Go.

It was a mistake. I can't take it back now. I--

[He stops. Wow, this next part is just going to make it worse, but he's already started to say it, so he goes on.]

...I destroyed the only evidence. There's no way to prove what he did and if I try...

[He's as guilty as Adachi.]

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