Who: Raegan Mallory, Alexandra Turner, open to Camelot Combats (subthread style!) What: Starting Rae and Alex's first day at Camelot off with a training session. Where: Camelot Castle, training room When: Monday, December 18; morning Warnings: TBD but probably mild
For Rae's entire life she'd been marching on a steady path toward a destination that had been decided for her before she was even born. Her father would have preferred if it was a son traveling down the path he'd laid out for his heir but he hadn't had a son. He'd had small, sickly Raegan and even though she'd always been clearly inferior he'd decided that she'd have to do. Law school. A career at a place that he carefully selected for her. Rae had done all of it just like he'd told her to, followed every step along the way without putting a single foot astray. It had all been inevitable. Easy. Boring. The only thing about Rae's life that had turned out to be a surprise was that she wasn't all that interested in the idea of marrying an appropriate man and producing a child that would, her father had always hoped, turn out less disappointing than she had.
The only thing until she'd become a reincarnate anyway. That hadn't been in the plan either and that was when everything had really started to change.
"This is it." It was the same thing that Rae had said to Alex when they'd stood in the desert ready to go fight the Ysandir because there was no one else who could or would do it. Somehow? That was less scary than this. "Last chance to back out." A little late for it to be the last chance actually, considering that she and Alex were standing at the entrance to a training room with their swords at their sides... but if Alex wanted to back out then Rae knew that she would do whatever it took to get them both out of there. Alex was the one person in the world who'd always been more important than Rae's own nerves.
Not that she thought that Alex was even close to backing out. Not that Rae was even close to backing out even if none of this had actually felt real up until the point where they were stepping into this castle and Rae knew that this was going to be her everyday life from now on. She'd been ducking her father's calls ever since she'd given her notice at the job that he'd gotten her so there hadn't been a lecture to drive the point home that Rae was rebelling the way that she'd never actually rebelled before. These strangers sparring inside this room were her people now. Camelot was where she owed her loyalty.
It felt as right as it felt terrifying.
Rae rested her hand on the hilt of her sword and shot a grin at Alex. "We've slain demons together, how bad can this be?"
Nevermind that slaying the demons had been... pretty bad. They'd still made it through it because they were together and fitting into this place was nothing compared to that.