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[inhumandog]

[Iago is FULLY CLOTHED TODAY! Be thankful. :c]

I didn't mind being a fox. In fact, I quite enjoyed it. But being that age? I was- am- a soldier. A sword to the gut, looking like this, is preferable to a permanent sleep like that. Parts of me ached that really shouldn't have been aching.

I need to do something to feel better. Does anyone feel in the mood for a run? I need to run.

[Private to the Marquis]

Talk to me. [Someone's being needy.]

[Note slipped under Angelica's door right after Sexby's post]

Angelica,

Perhaps this is simply the coward's way out, but think of it as a fitting end to your time here. It hasn't been easy and our friendship, if one could really call it that, started as nothing more than a tolerance for you because of your husband's inmate. Not that I would expect any differently, considering how we started.

I will admit now, in this letter, that I regret what I've done to you. I've caused you harm in more ways than I wish to think, and it has all been because of something that never once involved you. And that is inexcusable.

I wish you well, dear Angelica, with your family, though people here will miss you. Your strength is what they will admire about you, but it is your virtue that you will be remembered for.

-Iago

Comments

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. I'm a soldier also, so I know how it sucked. But yeah, I'll run with you.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I never wanted to be that age.

I'll meet you in the gym? Unless you'd prefer the deck?

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

The gym's good with me. I practically live there, anyway.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Twenty minutes.

I should just spend more time there. It might be better than...other things. [Like sitting around, playing Super Mario Bros. on Rex's DS.]

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

You should. I'm always looking for sparring partners.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I don't...spar.

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

Fine then. I'm looking for people to beat the shit out of under the pretense of sparring. Better?

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually. But clarification wasn't necessary. I assume that's what everyone wants.

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

Probably.

How can you be a soldier and not spar?

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I was never the overly violent type. I'm a strategist, you could say.

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

Don't knock the foot soldiers. Somebody has to act out the strategies.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I did my time in that role. Never liked it much.

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

Being on the front lines is the best part.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Not for all of us.

[givemeafight.livejournal.com]

Suit yourself.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You feel that way because you took a shorter road to arrive there, my treasure. It is very different when you come about it naturally, and if you are of good enough health that you do not fall prey to ... certain common weaknesses.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

It was dull, Marquis. I don't understand how you continue to tolerate it.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

There is nothing about me that is dull.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

But you are not me.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Yes, but we've already established that you're boring in the bedroom. That has nothing to do with age.

I'm working on something for that, by the way.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

That's enough about that.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Very well, Iago. My point still stands.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Well, we're not even talking about your point on that.

[naughtbutlife.livejournal.com]

[There's a knock at Iago's door!

Left on the floor is a small slip of paper tied with a green ribbon. The paper reads: I forgive you. Fare well, Iago. and nothing more.]

[darknessb4me]

People in my world continue to fight well into their sixties if they go that long without being killed - look at Fordring.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

But why would you want to?

[darknessb4me]

It's a cliche to say you can't go home again, but usually it's that you don't want to. I couldn't stand thinking that my safety was being fought for and I was letting someone else do the fighting.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

No, no. I mean why would you want to live that long? Why would you want to live to be that old?

[darknessb4me]

Sometimes it's just a matter of being extremely hard to kill.

[Don't get him started on how many times he's tried to off Tirion. Don't.]