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[angramaintsu]

Characters: Dark Rin & YOU.
Setting: Floor 48
Time: November 9
Format: Quick to start, will match
Summary: The tower taunts Rin when she's already in a poor mood.
Warnings: Characters are likely to be endangered if they provoke her.

    ►►► FLOOR 48;
[ Rin knew the moment he was taken from her. Any Master can feel the bond ripped from them and if that wasn't enough indication, the Command Seals along her flesh went dormant. In fact it was the hand she found herself gazing upon in the graveyard, sitting on a freshly dug (up?) patch of dity, the formerly vibrant red seals now barely seen against her pale skin. If that wasn't evident enough, then the stone marker with the name L A N C E R was indication enough of who she lost. Rin's never had anyone in her life, so for the brief time she held a Servant was the most social interaction she's ever had.

Losing him stung more than she's willing to let on.

For those brave enough to seek her out, they might feel a more ominous presence in the air around them. Yes, she's vulnerable without a Servant, but in no way is she weak. Willing to advertise that much, she hopes it's enough to keep people away.

Later on the evening, even if she's left, Rin will return to this place not to mourn. No, she'll wait around as though expecting him to return. For all of those jokes she often cracked about him being a puppy, it was her that will wait patiently for him to come pick her up. ]

Comments

[angramaintsu]

Now you're the one being unreasonable, Saber. You don't want me as an enemy, yet you're forcing my hand in choosing another Servant. So wishy-washy with your words...

[scorchedchivalry]

I have no need for a master here. I did say that before. [She drew close to Rin, pale yellow meeting red evenly.] Should the Holy Grail show itself and a new War starts, I may change my mind.

Until then, there is no benefit to having a master. Any magi I wish to serve now is by choice, not by contract. And it will remain so until the Holy Grail becomes attainable here.

[angramaintsu]

[ If Saber wants to be up close and personal with Rin, she'll follow her lead only to glare into her gaze. ]

You act as though you have a choice when it comes to me.

[scorchedchivalry]

I am not like the other Servants, Rin. I am very different; something you did not get the chance to learn in your version of the Fifth War.

And if you knew who I was, you would understand that. I am not accepting any master within this Tower until Sakura is brought here or I need a master. Master/Servant contracts are to be mutually beneficial, Rin.

[A hand reaches up to briefly brush a bit of white hair before lowering again.] You offer me nothing I need.

[angramaintsu]

[ The subtle gesture of gentleness seemingly calms the storm standing before Saber, as Rin gives a nod. Instead of arguing down a path that was futile, she cuts her loss when she sees it. ]

For now. [ She murmurs. ] Although if you're going to boast as to why you're so different, you should just properly explain it.

[scorchedchivalry]

[For now, Saber silently agrees. Should there come a time when the Holy Grail becomes attainable, the dark knight would have a hard choice to make between choosing Irisviel as a master... or Rin as one. It was a decision she was not looking forward to perhaps having to make some day.]

You know a Servant guards their true identity more than anything. Some day you may learn who I am, but I do not intend telling anyone.

[Unless her damn honor requires she give her name out as it did with Luke. Thankfully, he knows to not call her Arturia in public.]

I will say this: Unlike the others, I was still alive [albeit barely] when I pledged myself to the World.

[angramaintsu]

You enjoy playing hard to get too much, Saber.

[ That bit of information doesn't do her any good. How many other Servants could claim the same thing? Saber claims that unlike them, she was special, but is that claim really a truthful one? ]

You can leave me now. [ Rin dismisses her easily enough in her own frustration. ]

[scorchedchivalry]

It is not playing when it is true.

[Still, she turns away from Rin to walk back over to her broken headstone, looking down at it in silence.]

[angramaintsu]

[ She'll allow Saber the final word if only because she feels no desire in proving her wrong. At least for now. She wants to feel this void, not fill it. So she'll resume seated here with the Servant who understands her just a bit nearby. ]