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[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I seek answers. I am no mere toy, to be cast about the winds as some Machine sees fit. I carry the Stone within me, I choose the fate of nations and kings, and I woke to Wales, not to, to, to-

[There's a pause and this is said with dripping derision]

Florida.

Where is my companion? Why has it been seen fit to take me and not him? He is more at ease with the walking world, as it took me near hours to manage this magic, and I still have little faith in my success with it.

How can I find my way back to the lake when the waters that separate me seem vast and infinite? Once the Romans sailed such broad waters but I am no Roman-made thing, and I have no such experience with anything wider than what I saw beyond the borders of Ynys Afallon and the high walls of Caerleon. I know much of land but little of sea, and would ask someone to take me, if debt can be incurred against the hand of my king.

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[earnedmystripes]

...I don't get it.

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I am not a servant. I am not a person. My will is my king's will.

[earnedmystripes]

[Yep, you get the blank incomprehension look.]

What d'you mean, you're not a person?

[Beat.]

...Are you an alien?

[He's met a couple aliens. Maybe they don't like to be called people??????]

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I am a sword.

[earnedmystripes]

[Stare.]

.....Aren't swords supposed to be more...uh, pointy?

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

[STARE BACK.]

Aren't men meant to be more clever?

omg i cackled irl

[earnedmystripes]

[WOW RUDE]

--Oi!!!

I win

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I am a sword gone walking. Should I choose I will resume my shape.

this thread is great i love gwen |D

[earnedmystripes]

[Pause. See, where he's from, a person being able to turn into a sword wouldn't be that unusual. A sword that's usually a sword and thinks of itself (herself? can swords have genders?) as a sword, on the other hand, is confusing as hell.]




But...if you can choose that...doesn't that sorta mean you have free will too?

awww thank you ;; I love this thread too!

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

My will is tied to the will of my king.

yay!!

[earnedmystripes]

You can't choose stuff without will.

[That's actually a matter of philosophical debate, Kotetsu.]

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I have no king. All my kings are dead, and none have come forward to try for the sword.

[earnedmystripes]

[omg you are so confusing help]

Weren't you just saying you serve a king's will??

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

Yes. And without a king I serve no one.

[earnedmystripes]

Sooo...you've got free will when there're no kings, and otherwise you're just a sword? Do I have that right?

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

Yes.

But I am always a sword.

[earnedmystripes]

[Beat]

Do you still get to--think, and feel and stuff when you're not um, people-shaped?

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

I remember all I see, and dream, and think, yes.

Although I only feel when I am walking.

[earnedmystripes]

...Eh? How can you think and not feel? Don't those things kinda go hand-in-hand??

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

Do they?

[earnedmystripes]

...Y...eah....?