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

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[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

[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...

[bunny_flower]

... Do you ever stop and think about what you do, Saul-san ?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Very often, doma, but I cannot know all the strange rules of this world just by breathing. I do as I have always done and learn in the doing. As men must.

[bunny_flower]

Most people, upon arriving here, ask questions.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Such as do the wolves here speak?

[bunny_flower]

Such as 'are there creatures here that might not be what they seem?'

Be careful not to mak enemies, Saul-san. It is hard enough to live here when you have friends.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Is anything here what it seems?

Do not worry, doma Unohana. Enemies make life richer.