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Tweak says, "Always Keep The Faith!"

Thea Greenberg (greengroweth) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-12-16 22:23:00

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amy pond, ariadne, hospitaller, nick fury

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So this is a magical book. And everyone talks to each other in it. (Don't worry, I did the background reading and paged through the conversations that have been going on for the past two weeks or so. It seemed like the sensible thing to do, and you all are so informative.) Which means all of you are real, and milling about through this city somewhere, and I will probably encounter at least some of you eventually. It also means that I'm not crazy, I'm not the only one who hears thing, and apparently, the mumbling in Latin is at least somewhat standard issue for these voices.

This is all good to know. It has done a great deal for my perspective on my own sanity. I appreciate that immensely.

So I'm Svetlana. The voice in my brain is named Katherine. We're pleased to meet you. Because this is not the world's weirdest introduction or anything, not at all.

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	The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	[with some finagling, Katherine gets control of the pen, and writes back in lovely Tudor script, in fluent Latin, of course.] Brother-Knight, I am Katherine, Queen of England, Ireland, and France. But in all things, I am a dutiful, loving daughter of our Holy Father. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Your Majesty, if I may help you in the troubles of your isolation, I am at your service. I am late come from my order's holdings in the Holy Land, though that was long ago even to you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	To my knowledge, there has not been an Order of St John in Jerusalem for nigh three hundred years, but I understand that my world is long gone, never to be recovered. Good Brother, you are far from home, indeed. But are we all not so very far to sea? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	My world was lost at Hattin, if you know of that. But there is some way by which you may pass into the world you knew. I do not know much more than that, but the woman you live with now has a key inside. That is how you may return to your throne, your grace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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greengroweth
2012-12-17 05:41 pm UTC (link)

All of Christendom knows of Hattin, good Brother, and mourns the loss. Jerusalem is never far from our hearts or our prayers.

But returning to my home will not restore me to my throne, to my sorrow. I am queen, but not accorded the dignity of truth. My husband set me aside, and I perished in exile and shame, his true wife, while my replacement wore my jewels and my crown falsely, and raised a bastard over the legitimate child of the king, dragging all of England into sin and falsehood. Has any queen borne such sorrow as this?

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	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	I am greatly saddened by your trouble, both for you and for England, my lady. I shall set your hardship before God. If I can be any comfort, or if there can be any easing of your sorrow, I took the vows of priest as well as knight. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Then I should rightly call you Father. I apologise, I did not know. Can dead souls left in the world take the sacraments? Is such a thing possible? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

The Hospitaller/Katherine

hospitaller
2012-12-17 05:59 pm UTC (link)

In my day I abandoned all titles but brother, for I am least of all God's sons. Please do not trouble yourself, I am only Brother Miles. If God did not want you to take the sacraments would he have sent you one who can administer them? If the two women we live with now were to meet I would give it and take your confessions, and whatever else I might ease your soul.

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	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	You may call yourself the least, but in this moment, Brother, you are as dear and welcome to me as the Angel Gabriel. I shall endeavour to make such a meeting possible. Long has it been since I have had the delight of the Eucharist, and such gladness it would bring me to have its sweetness again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	The Hospitaller/Katherine hospitaller 2012-12-17 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	I shall trouble my woman, and you yours, and surely the time of our meeting shall not be far away from then. Take heart, my lady, and do not abandon your prayers, for even still God cares for you and has not abandoned you yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Hospitaller/Katherine greengroweth 2012-12-17 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	My prayers remain my one comfort. Never would I abandon them, not when Our Lady has been my refuge when all else has failed me. Soon, I shall see you, and soon, these things will come to pass. Thank you, Brother, for you have given me hope. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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