3rd Step: A little taste of home [video, posted towards evening]

[favorthebold]

[The PCD clicks on to show Saul sitting somewhere outdors next to a huge blazing bonfire. Flushed and grinning, he's clearly a little bit drunk, and has a green wreath perched on his head at an awkward angle. He reaches up a hand to straighten it, laughing, then toasts the camera with a bottle of unknown (but apparently potent - it's still mostly full) liquor.]

Biana Mithralia! Praise the Unconquered Sun!

I know you strange land's people are busy with your strange festival, but if you become tired of it, the bonfire will stay ablaze until tomorrow's dawn, and I have roasted wolf-meat. Have you ever tried wolf? I have, but I've tried everything.

[He laughs again and takes a good long drink of the bottle.]

I hope the Risen Son doesn't mind wolf's-blood offering instead of ox for his waking-feast, or we'll have another week's darkness. Hah! No matter. It's summer now in Ilyiga, and if twice Mithralia in one year won't buy me favor with him, I don't know what else might.

[Chuckling, he turns back to the fire and splashes some liquor into it, watching the flames as the feed clicks off.]

Comments

[law-light.livejournal.com]

It's christmas, it's important.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

To you perhaps. To me it is Mithralia, and just as important if not moreso.

[law-light.livejournal.com]

How is it more important? Perhaps to you, not to me. Then, they're equal.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes, they can be equal, nothing to me. Arguing about faith is nothing but trouble.

[law-light.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Well, I hope you have a nice day.

[shadedsunlight]

Try not to burn down the city.

Or fall into the bonfire.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

I resent that implicatin.

[shadedsunlight]

What's in the bottle?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! I have no idea! But it's good. It's very very good.

[wolvespride.livejournal.com]

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

What are you taking offense at? I hunted it so I have every right to eat it.

[wolvespride.livejournal.com]

Sick human.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Hah, as if it would've thought twice about eating me.

Oh No You Didn't

[feline-sonata.livejournal.com]

WHAT WOLF!?

WHERE DID YOU GET THE WOLF?!

[His voice is a heavy mix of anger and panic]

Alas I did not ^^

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

I hunted it, of course. There were quite a few of them - I think they'd gotten in from the wilderness during the darkness. I don't think it belonged to anyone, if that's your worry.

GOOD

[feline-sonata.livejournal.com]

IF IT WAS SOMEONE, YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET IT!

Hige, Kiba, Milo...

You think people like you are all there are around here!?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

I think something that can talk should have the sense to cry halt when it finds itself hunted like an animal.

[bunny_flower]

Wolf ... meat ?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Well, I needed something. It hardly seemed appropriate to butcher a rabbit for Mithras.

[bunny_flower]

Saul-san, some of the wolves here are sentient and able to change forms !

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

It should've done it while we were fighting, then. I can't be obligated to come up to anything I wish to eat and ask it for its name...

[unlucky-blood.livejournal.com]

What's so wrong with darkness?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

It has its time. Now is not that time.

[unlucky-blood.livejournal.com]

There's always time for darkness.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Not while I'm celebrating the Unconquered Sun, thank you.