Chaldean Chronicles: Cadence of the Lostgrail

Within the endless stalls, A large ferris wheel is present. Decorated meticulously and (clearly) automatically in a Christmas theme. The Green and red lights glimmering, lighting the pale sky ablaze with color. The wheel itself seemed painted gold, Or as if the material itself naturally had such a color.

Entering one of the Ferris wheel booth are none other than Klara Silverbane, the daughter of Medraut Silverbane. Why had she decided to enter such booth alone? Who knows, perhaps sorting out her feelings during the Singularity now that she have nothing to distract herself with. Her shift in the medical room is over so she's thinking of a break, and this is a perfect spot for it. She emptily gaze outside of the glass window, flickering Christmas light are reflected upon her eyes as she let out a sigh. Sun Quan word still echoes in her mind, and that's causing her some doubts inside her heart. What if Arran really doesnt need her? Her feeling are just one sided afterall, he might just not find her as the one for him. Such thought pains her, but she can't really force him to love her. Should I just keep it to myself then...? Klara sighed, she might be strong physically, but emotionally she's still not strong enough. She slumped down on her seat, relaxing her back against the cushion as she stares into the manmade night sky as she notice a light snowfall is happening. If her mentor is here, she probably would've teased her regarding the issue she have, which made her glad that she wasn't here. "Maybe I wasn't good enough." Klara mutters to noone, still lazily staring off into the distance as she saw fellow masters and servants spending their time together. A small tinge of heartache fills her as she looked back into the sky. "Maybe fully focusing on the Silverbane is a better choice..." She entered Clock Tower because she needed to avoid the church afterall thanks to her father overstays. But now that her father had died, someone need to manage the Silverbane Order. She had planned to manage it from the Clock Tower due to her wanting to help her mentor to reach the root, but her mentor insisted that she could do it by herself. Back then, she were too hardheaded to let that go, though now...

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8:10 PM

"If I stayed there, I don't think my mental psyche would last long." Yet another sigh escaped from her lips, releasing a warm cloudy breath due to the cold weather. The dhampire feeling are just all over the place, she feels bad that Akiha had helped her out of that state only for her to enter it by herself again.

The Ferris wheel came to a brief stop at the bottom and Klara would see for a moment nothing. Well not until she looked down a bit more and saw an old man who looked like he had already lived a lifetime and certainly carried the regrets for ten more on his shoulder. He was on a wheelchair and looked mildly surprised that Klara was there. “Oh,” he said in a gravelly voice, “Apologies, madam, I didn’t think that this ride was occupied. I could wait for the next one if you wish.”

11:08 AM

@NoLongerdEd

Klara didn't bat an eye as the ride stops, though upon hearing the sound of the door of the booth being opened, the dhampire would look over to who had opening it. There, she found a old man in a wheelchair, a rare sight to be seen in Chaldea. Though, Klara already knew who he was, she worked on the Master health report afterall. "Ah Mr. Archange, Merry Christmas to you. As for the ride, please don't mind me as I'm alone in this one. Please feel free to come in." She smiles gently at him, she had seated herself at the corner of the booth so there's plenty of face for Mihaly to move to. Despite her probably being much more older than the old Magus, she still shows her respect as in term of lifespan, he is still a much more older and experienced in life than her.

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”Thank you,” he wheeled himself into the Ferris wheel and made sure that there was ample room for both of her. Even if he had to shift his legs a little. “You must be…. Klara Silverbane correct? I’ve heard a lot about you and your servant.”

@NoLongerdEd

And so, the ride begin to move again, bringing their booth up into the air as it shakes lightly. As the old man calls her out by her name, she nods at him as she replied back. "Indeed I am, I didn't think I'm famous enough in Chaldea to be known by the masses. Is there something that you need of me?" She chuckles to herself softly, she's clearly downplaying her and her servant involvement in Chaldea activity so far. Resting her her elbow at the frame of the booth window, her red eyes reflect the blinking light of the Christmas town outside.

(@TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”Oh there’s nothing an old man needs from you. It’s just that I’ve been cooped up fixing my suit that I have to spend my spare time reading the mission reports. I saw the name Silverbane come up many times.” He leaned back. “I’m sorry about your father. It is a regret of mine that I could never meet him as I was awakened too late. I won’t lie and say I can speak for him, but I’m sure he would be proud of how far you’ve come.” He looked outside at the Christmas town as well. The lights in the distant blinked on his scarred face as well. “Ah, what have I been doing? Bringing up old wounds. Apologies again. Age rots the mind.”

@NoLongerdEd

Hearing the old man apologising, she shakes her head as she waved her hand dismissively, looking over to him. "Don't worry about it Mr. Archange, I'm already over it. As for father, yes he is a great man, a bit selfish too for his own age. If he had just not pushed himself too much he might have lived till this day. But alas, sometime you just want your death to be meaningful. And thank you for the cheering, I really do hope he's watching over me and is proud of me." She speaks out as the tone of her voice clearly shows she have truly overcome her grief over her father death. Though with Mihaly experience in life, he could read through her body language there's something else that bothers her which is definitely not about her father.

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

Mihaly closed his eyes for a moment. He could smell the smoke again. The palace burning. The tanks tearing down the gate. His parents out of arrogance refusing to leave their ancestral home. Him hiding in the closet as he heard the gunshots, holding his breath in and praying they wouldn’t find him. What a pathetic Magus he had been. Afraid of commoners. And the way he had looted the family gold and fled the country… All these years he had run and tried to deny that he had ever loved his parents or they loved him, he couldn’t push away that feeling of loss in his heart. And he still hated them, so just imagine what it must be for a girl close to her father. And she made it. “It’s never easy to move on is it? Like trudging through a sea of sludge with no end that keeps trying to drag you down. But you managed to do what I couldn’t in my entire life. I’m sure in his eyes if he could see you, your strength in spirit would forever surpass the strength he had in arms.” He took a breath in. “But something else is bothering you that isn’t your father. It’s Christmas and you’re alone on a Ferris wheel. I may not understand the culture of the younger ones these days due to my age, but shouldn’t you be spending it with friends with a drink of eggnog over a roaring fire at this time?”

@NoLongerdEd

,Hearing his word, it remind Klara of the day her father would talk with her. It's clearly bringing in some nostalgic memory, even if her father won't be celebrating Christmas with her once more, or even again. Though, some of his word were true, Klara should be spending time with her friends in this time, not wasting it away in this cold container and watching the town with that longing eyes of her.* "Ahaha, you're right. I should be spending this precious holiday with my friends. Though we both have our own reason to stay up in this Ferris wheel don't we?" Klara replied, confirming his speculation regarding something that's bothering her while also throwing the question back at the man. They're both old enough to be able to read each other intention through the way they talked and act. (edited)

(@TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

( ~~Old man dominates young petit vampire~~ (edited)

The simulated cold seemed to seep into his bones. Well at least the bones he still had left. But he didn’t let that bother him, visibly at least. Yugoslavia. That’s what the cold reminded him of. Like steel jaws biting into his flesh. “I don’t really have anyone to spend Christmas with, don’t know anyone in Chaldea beyond mere acquaintances but I suppose I have my own reasons.” A long moment of silence from him that seemed to last too long. “If… if I told you the reason I was up here all by my own loathsome, would you tell me yours? Tis the season of giving after all…” he suggested as a half joke but there there was a tint of sincerity.

8:21 PM

@NoLongerdEd

Klara chuckles as the old man come up with his reason on spending his Christmas alone up in this ferris wheel. It looks like this spot is quite popular for those who wanted some lone time too. Though, as Mihaly thrown her the half joking question, Klara looked back into the window again, her expression changing slightly as she begin speaking. "Hmmm, say Mr. Archange, are you experienced in love?" Answering his question with another question, the gaze of the dhampire would wander toward the old face face, glacing at him.

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

Ah, one of those bouts “In love? Well I suppose I’ve had woman that loves me before. Maybe not me myself but the money I raked in during my shameful career.” He sighed, his eyes wandering to the dark sky about in an almost dreamy fashion. “But I never really truly loved anyone back with all my heart. Only one thing I did. It was thrilling whenever I was in it. As if my life had reached it height, like every breath brought a new adventure. And when I needed moments of calm I felt safe when I could just curl in and take my whole life in. Peace and excitement, you’ll know it for sure when you feel it.”

@NoLongerdEd

”It’s like every moment is the moment. Nothing else in the world compares to it, not all the gold or mage craft there is.” He chuckled a bit. “Forgive an old man for ranting madly about long ago memories.” (edited)

Klara listen to Mihaly as he begin to go down his memory lane about his love experience. She totally understand what he's talking about;The feeling of eveyrrday being so much better with the one you love close with you. She knows it way too well, though... Thats why I'm having this trouble huh. Klara laugh to herself internally, mocking her own confidence as she have still not told the man she love about her feeling. "That's fine Mr. Archange, atleast those are some of your more happier day in life. You don't have to apologize for relieving good memories." She waved off his apologies with a smile, looking back at the town with a rather distant gaze on her eyes. She would begin speaking again without breaking her sight on the town. "I wanted to ask Mr. Archange, have you ever had a feeling that you didn't need to rely on your lover and that she's the one that need to rely on you?" A odd question.

(@TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”Rely in which way?” Mihaly raised an eyebrow as he asked. “The blue skies never relied really on me, it would always exist without me, but I know you’re not an anomaly like me and you’re taking about a person. Trust me when I say that a person can show themselves to be as strong as they could ever be, but even the strong falter and need a shoulder to lie upon. We all need someone in the end that we can rely on, that’s just the human condition. My squadron mates, tough old bastards, even they needed moments to be vulnerable. Tell me, this person you speak of, do you feel that you are… not worthy of them?”

@NoLongerdEd

Listening to him speaking, Klara agree with what he's speaking off. No matter how strong you are, you will still need that one person for you to show your vulnerable side for. Afterall, you can't always be strong at all time. But... "Mmmm, I suppose that's one way to put it." Klara sighed, nodding at his question as she fixes her sitting posture. From her eyes, Mihaly could tell it really is bothering her, this matter that is. "The person I'm speaking of are someone strong, superhumanly strong if I have to say. He's a very reliable and kind person, and it makes me glad that I've fallen for someone as gallant as him. But....how should I say this....he's..." A slight pause could be heard from Klara as she thinks up the word for it. "Far too perfect for me...if I were tp put I that way. He's a man that look like be won't make a mistake. It made me feels like I'll just drag them down if stayed on their side. And a word from Sun Quan within the singularity keep budging on my mind. What if he didn't need me? He could just rely on himself and face everything head on without flinching. It just...I don't know, I guess it just made me feel inferior..." Klara heave yet another sigh, slumping down on her seat as she stare outside of the window again, watching the masters and servants of Chaldea down below. "Plus, I'm not sure he have the same feeling as me, and he might have his heart on someone else much moee reliable than me. Someone who isn't a coward to their own feelings. Such thoughts just pains me deeply..." The girl adds, it's a classic problem of not feeling worthy for someone you loved. "Ah, sorry for rambling on like that, that isn't professional of me." Klara let out a self deprecating chuckle. Even if shes someone who worked on medical field and helped people out, it seems like she too is having her own fair share of trouble. (edited)

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”Let me tell you a story about a man. Over Yugoslavia in 1991 there was a civil war in sure you knew. A messy affair. But one country was willing to pay their entire gold reserves just to survive. And there was a group of mercenaries that saw this as a final bid to make retirement as millionaires. After all the Cold War was ending and the need for men like them was quickly fading. There was also a fear that their crimes would come to light so they made one desperate bid to get the wealth they needed to shield themselves from the law.” He sighed. “It was thought this band was invincible, their leader was said to have taken many missile hits and never flinched. They whispered of witchcraft and the supernatural. That part doesn’t really matter. What matters is that everyone thought this man was invincible. And at the time he thought the same thing to.” “He’d long seen his partners as just weight to drag along, and no doubt They had thought the same too. So he flew, against the entire world. For the first weeks he held his own. But there were too many of him. Too late he realized he couldn’t fight on his own. He needed help, and not just in combat but in his heart as well. He thought that he could rely on himself and face everything head on withouth flinching just like all the times before. But the times had changed and that just wasn’t the case anymore. And that way of thinking cost him and everyone he loved their lives.” Klara would see him absently trace a long gash scar over his cheek. “Trust me when I say he may seem like he’s strong. You may see yourself as a deadweight. But that’s just not how it works. Nobody is ever below anyone even if the other has the physical strength of a young god. There is strength even in places that may not seem obvious.”

5:16 AM

”And most importantly you don’t have to be strong to love and been loved. That’s not what love is. Love is just an… understanding of each other that goes beyond everything else. To its deepest level. When did you need strength for that? I’m sure that even as he face impossible odds even by his standards, he will look to his side and you will see a smile on his face as he looks at you.” “So tell me Ms. Silverbane, do you love him?”

@NoLongerdEd

The dhampire silently listened to the old man story, a story about someone who abandoned his friends and tried to fight against the world by themselves. Obviously she knows how would the story end, but she couldn't help but to hear how the man would ended up after everything he did. As she saw him tracing back a scar right on his cheek with his hand, she could only guess who's the man Mihaly is talking about. But, she still stayed quiet, letting the old man to continue with his talking regarding her problem. One could say Klara view of love are still flawed or rather misunderstood. Love have never always been always about the strong protecting the weak and the weak confronting the strong. It's about being equal, no matter how capable each of the person are. You might be able to carry a boulder with pure strength, but you might not be able to cook for yourself. Love is about taking care of each other, comfort each other, being able to understand each other, and most importantly;Being there for each other. It's never about protecting the weak, it's about protecting both of themselves together. "...." Klara stayed silent, deep in her thoughts as Mihaly word bounces within the capsule of her mind. Arran Chatelaine, a man she had fallen in love over the course of her time in Clock Tower. He used to be weak too, and so does she. But they both grew, it's just that Arran grew much more faster than her. Does that mean shes a deadweight for him? No, if that's the case he wouldn't have even bothered to check on her, he'll only seek her if he needs her. Does that mean he love her? Who knows, even Klara doesn't know the answer. But she do know the answer for Mihaly question of course. "Yes, I am deeply in love with him, Mr. Archange." Klara answered, her red ruby eyes burning with pure sincerity, showing a girl that's truly in love. (edited)

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

He looked at her and something tinged in his cold heart. She was by all means older then him seen more, yet she still had something he had lost that fateful day he had fled his family’s burning estate. Innocence. And not even finding the root and clutching the secrets of it in his gauntlet would never bring it back. He sighed, a long weight he had buried long ago coming back to rest on his shoulders. He remembered how much he missed it. He made a gentle smile at her. “Have you… ever approached him about those feelings in any capacity at all? Even teased it to him in a joking manner?” Look at me a living fossil who’s hundred birthday is coming right around the corner and by all rights should drop down dead at any moment giving relationship advice to a girl that’s technically twice my age in a romance that seems right out of airport novels as the world outside this simulation is incinerated. And all I ever wanted was to be a commercial pilot at the start. Funny how life works. (edited)

@NoLongerdEd

"No, not yet....but I'll make sure to take things much more aggressively!" Klara said, regretfully with her tone before speaking with confidence. It's also her own mistake for taking things rather slowly, letting her chance to slip continuously. Who knows what would happen if she had been much more braver with him? Then again, if she's that brave, they wouldn't have this talk in the first place. "That have took some weight of my mind, to think I'll be asking someone who's younger than me. Thank you for the piece of mind Mr. Archange." She bows her head gratefully to the old man, that talk definitely have refreshed her.

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”That’s nice to hear.” Mihaly rested his chin upon his hand as he stared out. “You’ve got youth and energy on your side. Use it to claim what you can and don’t waste your life like i did and wither away without ever creating anything worthwhile.” He sighed and suddenly he seemed so much older. Just a tired old man on a Ferris wheel. “Stops coming right up. I’ll… I’ll stay behind. I need some time to myself tonight.” He said absently. “Best of luck and ask help if you… need it.”

1:40 AM

@NoLongerdEd

Accepting the encouragement, Klara nods at the old man with a smile filled with determination. This isn't the time to stay sulking, she need to seize her opportunity. She really did the right thing by asking him for advice. I suppose it's true that wisdom came with age. As the Ferris Wheel came to a stop, the dhampire would stood up from her seat as she moves over to the door. "Thank you once again Mr. Archange, I shall keep that in mind. I wished you a very great christmas!" And with that, the girl would leave the ferris wheel booth behind, closing the door and leaving Mihaly alone in the booth.

( @TheInsanityThatLiesOutside )

”You too Silverbane,” he sighed as he leaned back in the Ferris Wheel as it began its next cycle. “Do what I never could.” He stared at the sky above, vast, open, and free for all. Something he had fought all his life for. “Never lose it.”

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10:02 AM

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

(Sure!)

illya huming simply walked with the occasionally twirled and such, she enjoyed the snow and Christmas setting not paying attention to anything around

He was around as well, He was fond of Christmas and given the obvious reasons he couldn't spend it outside of Chaldea he was here instead. He was enjoying himself so far as he was making his way to the ferris wheel.

noticeing monta and being a bit happy snunk behind him saying said, "BOO!!, Hi monta!, soooo how are you doing?"

Cue a sudden Boo and Monta letting out a small squeak as he was spooked by the surprising Illya. "Early Merry Christmas to you too Illya..Oh gosh I think my heart skipped for a second." He had to take a moment to collect himself, but it was nice to see her in good spirts. "I'm doing alright, checking out this big wheel, how you been?"

she noded and said, "im alright!, i never been in a place like this before" she said with her arms behind her back looking at the faries wheel

"I'm more or less in the same position as you, It's a snowy and christmas themed event though, May as well take advantage of it before we got to go to the next Singularity."

" set the ferris wheel huh! I've definitely heard of them but they haven't seen one myself at least with my own eyes" she said it's running towards the giant Ferris wheel

So this is a*

He let out a small 'ack' as she went off towards the wheel with Monta following after her until both of them was standing in front of the looming ferris wheel. "....Wanna ride it?" He asked Illya.

with her hands behind her back she said "I certainly don't mind, it certainly would be something new and that isn't necessarily bad"

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

"How does this thing even work..." He mumbled to himself as he went up to one of the seats and opened it. "Uh....Ladies first." He said to her so that she could enter and take her seat before he did, Monta showing some common curtesy

@Grim)

she simpley humed and went ahead and said, "then follow me!"

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

Off she goes running off and him chasing after Illya.

after she got on the ferris wheel she waited for him to come on bringing her legs back and forth

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

He went in after her and sat himself down next to her and closed the chair. A few seconds later the wheel began to turn, raising them up

as soon as they start getting into the middle part of the ferris wheel after a couple of minutes she scoots over to decide she's on and sort of just watches the area from Below with her eyes a bit distant thinking about something

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

The wheel began to move and the two would be able to get a nice view of the rest of the Christmas scenery and it was a nice sight to see. Though it seems that lllya had her mind elsewhere. "Something on your mind?" He asked the other Master..

" just looks similar to something it's something I recognize that's all" she said still a little bit distant although at this point more of a neutral face

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

"Can't say it's something I recongnize...But it is nice, a chance of pace given what we normal go through in these singularties.." He said as he gazed out in the distance. "I'm gonna be going on missions soon..I'm kinda scared honestly."

"hmmmm, as long as you have strong people around you to protect you I'm sure you'll be all right, besides you don't need to be the one always fighting you just need to let us to fight forYou, can even do stuff like support or even just chip away at a opponent"

@Crafter/Flower/Illya/Dad/Oni

(Event is over, no more rp)

Within the endless stalls, A large ferris wheel is present. Decorated meticulously and (clearly) automatically in a Christmas theme. The Green and red lights glimmering, lighting the pale sky ablaze with color. The wheel itself seemed painted gold, Or as if the material itself naturally had such a color.