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symposium! [attn: margot/ned/nicholas/pen]
#31
Ned's answer is simple and direct. He meets Mr. Hyde's gaze evenly across the dinner table, to the exclusion of the others, jaw put forward with a thoughtful sort of huff under his breath. Then says, quite matter-of-factly.

"Yes."
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#32
Nick's eyes, when Ned meets them across the table, are even: there's a gentle sort of humor in them as he watches the apprentice, notes the meditative little sigh.  There is this direct, simple answer from Ned, and Nick laughs; the sound is clear, sharp, like church bells at dawn, a far less calculated sound than the one he had made earlier.  It's sudden and brief, and after the short silence that follows, he says, "We are very different and fractious and proud, but you can find people who don't buy into that, if you're patient."

His fingertips walk up the length of the stem of his wine glass, and he is looking at it now, his gaze somewhat absent.  "Sometimes things happen that force people together, or force you to rely on others when you might not otherwise.  I spoke with a lot of people and listened to what I wanted to listen to, and I eventually chose my Tradition because its purpose was compatible with mine.  But there's also no shame in not choosing."  He glances to Pen then, an invitation to add if she wishes.

A beat.  "Has Andrés brought either of you to the chantry?"  This, to both apprentices.
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#33
The back-and-forth between Ned and Nick* brought a tense kind of quiet from Margot.  She watched the exchange with her lips tight together and her eyes a little worried.  Like she was worried that Ned would offend the guests and god knows what it meant to offend a wielder of reality.  Could he get himself cursed?

But then laughter, and the little apprentice sipped her wine with relief.

When the question opened to both of them, Margot's expression of confusion no doubt answered before her words could be piped in.

"What is a chantry?"


[*ahahahahahaha (hides head)]
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#34
Sepúlveda vanishes: fare well for now, ominous cold, frost & fortune. There is a submerged glint (barrow treasure, dredged up out of a still [holy] water) in Pen's eye, something quizzical about the cant of her head. Ned. Edward? Eddard? Ned, Nettle. Nettle Ned: stinging, accusatory, anxious but a balm (perhaps), How do you know how to trust? He wants to know, and Nicholas is in the opinion of Mars the perfect person to frame a reply. A reply to a question like that: it is scaffolding, on which to hang later conversations. Nicholas and Ned and Margot and Pen and Pen's attention is shared equally, and of course it is intent and present and direct, but just this: a lovely sword, laid on a mantle, votary prayer stone, pick it up (dare you) but it will still only be present

Nuances, certainly! The way she looks at Ned, clear-eyed and frank but frank is not the same as open and poise lends her a reserve dam against whatever passionate response she might have a few years ago flooded him with. Both Pen and Nicholas are even, steady, steadying; the way Pen looks at Margot is the same as how she looks at Ned (Pen can school herself to be studious), not quite struck but almost, we are matches and we burn when we are struck. Inviting, even: curious. And the way she looks at Nicholas during this portion of the conversation: like he is a cup of moonlight, see, a ring made of owl-light, and the night's too dark and it's been too fallow of wonder a hard cold season and now here here is that Mystery come again familiar and beloved, although by the time Nick glances at Pen to see again if she wants to add anything, her expression is one of sharply drawn together brows crinkling forehead heard a wrong note a sour note oh but no that is no disagreement sense of fairness and justice ringing pea under a hundred mattresses can feel it how to express it without being - 

- hmmmm. Meanwhile: what's a chantry? 

"A club, and-or a club house. Often along the lines of those fancy athletic clubs that were popular once, the ones where you can stay for a while and are chalk-full of amenities, or one where there are different levels of membership. Sometimes it's a school. Sometimes it has grown up around a sacred space or a divine one, a magical site where you can be touched by enchantment or take a bath in power."
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#35
"Uh....huh. So a clubhouse. With it's own rules operated and defined by all those of our kind who join it. Does this club...even allow for everyone to work and act and solve? Like some universal art gallery to reality?"

Ned's got a thing about analogies. Sometimes they partially work, suggesting a wrong direction taken. Other times...the Doc has to start drinking more heavily.
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#36
((Buh, sorry for the delay in reply guys.))

It's an interesting thing, to note the two apprentices and how very different they are: Ned, his borderline forceful quest for answers, and Margot, who for her air of blood-drenched fields seems to carry a sense of awe within her too.  They trust each other, or at least Ned trusts Margot because they are going through the same things: this has been said.  Nick is watching the two of them as Pen speaks, as they reflect his questions back and ask more, and his expression is hard to read - 


but perhaps it's something akin to relief.  The kids are all right.

Even if they don't know what a chantry is yet.  Nick is not sure he knew what a chantry was yet.  He does not miss Pen's furrowed brow, and there is this moment where it occurs to him that perhaps he was not impeccable with his Word as he ought to be, but too late now.  "I think it depends on the chantry," he tells them, because for all Ned is asking the questions he suspects Margot may have some of the same ones (if not now, then later.)  "Some work together better than others, like any group of people.  I think a better analogy is...a community center, maybe.  It's going to be used as an art gallery by some and a social group by others and a place to take classes by more than that, and many different people will have different ideas about what it ought to be used for."
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#37
"But not everyone joins a Chantry, it sounds like."

Margot had been quiet up until that point. Speech swung like a pendulum between the apprentices, so while one asked many questions the other was content to listen. It was a good assumption to make, that they had very similar questions.

Every so often the pendulum had to swing back, though.

"I expect you don't really know what you're getting into with one until you've already signed on and seen how the gears move and fit together on the inside-- behind the clock's face. And by then you've already signed the membership waiver." The wine glass that Margot had been holding was, at last, relinquished and set to rest on the table. Now she was free to straighten her cardigan and fold her arms in front of her chest.

"It's easy to get swept away in the paranoia, once the blindfold's off."
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#38
"...Especially considering people seem to keep handing you blindfolds to put back on."

Ned offers on the tail-end of Margot's phrasing. Unlike the younger woman, he's not bothering with his wine glass anymore. No sips, no fidgeting, no touching. It sits there, inanimate and half-full while he regards Nick (and occasionally Penelope).

"Traditions are one thing. Different ideas, philosophies, even ways of doing things. Each of them will tell you there's a way to work the world that works for them and if that line is believable, it should stand that everyone just agrees that it works in different ways. Except no one can really agree. Chantry, Tradition, Technocracy or even Philosophy. So what exactly is there to unite us?"

And he turns to look at Penelope now. Firmly and without wavering. No real...politeness though he doesn't seem rude. It's more that this is turning from a dinner, into something like a cross-examination. Kids today.

"Cause I've heard all about how different we are. I've heard that you lost...the last war?" He squints, head tilting to one side, eyes flicking from Pen to Nick and back again. "And now I'm hearing rumours about a new one starting up. What exactly unites you against it? Or rather...what's stopping you from losing the next one?"
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#39
[I swear I will post for this thread tomorrow. Maybe tonight. My conscience-pricking just has me swearing right now. *g* STAY TUNED, YO.]
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#40
((What do you think, kids? Can we wrap this scene in enough time to claim it for February? CAN WE?!))
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