Cold Arrival

[loyalrebel]

WHO: Malik Al-Sayf
WHERE: Fountain Square, Inn, around the village
WHEN: 12/29
OPEN TO: Fountain: Altaïr, Elsewhere: OTA
WARNINGS: mention of past character death, tbd

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Fountain: Altaïr

As far as rude revivals went, regaining consciousness underwater was pretty high up there. That it was also freezing didn't help anything in the slightest. Malik isn't entirely sure how he makes it to the surface or the edge of the fountain where he clings and tries to catch his breath.

He knows he needs to get out of the water and in to somewhere at least sheltered if not warm. That or dip back under and call his merfolk form around him. There's something off though, besides the seeming lack of other Travelers in the water with him. He tries to reach for his magic, and that's when he figures out what's out of place.

He can't access any of his bag of tricks. No magic, no portals to Liminal, no shapeshifting either.

He swears under his breath, clinging tightly to the edge of the fountain.

“Hello?” He calls out, hoping there's someone within earshot even as he struggles up out of the water as best he can with one arm while shivering.

Inn: OTA

Malik had genuinely forgotten exactly how much the cold bothered him, being able to magically ignore it had spoiled him against the unique aches it brought to his left shoulder. Which, much to his dismay, has reproduced in his knees.

He's managed to settle himself at a table close to the fireplace, which he eyes on occasion like he's contemplating actually pressing himself against the bricks or just crawling inside of. Mostly though, he eats and attempts to eavesdrop on anyone coming in.

There's something he notices though, as he eats and its enough to actually give him pause to stare at the dish before him.

“That is new.” He admits aloud, frowning.

Wildcard

He hasn't been here long, but there are some rather important things that Malik needs to test out before all hell breaks loose as it usually does. So he finds a nostly out of the place to try things out.

While most of it seems to involve standing there looking increasingly annoyed, he does eventually take to throwing stones he dug out of the snow at a cleared bit of ground with remarkable precision while looking murderous.

Comments

[moderndayassassin]

Desmond shot him an amused look. "You're telling me, a guy who lived through three ancestors' lives, that history books are inaccurate?" He chuckled. "It's honestly a good thing I was never in a history class of some kind when I knew all of that, I'd just wan to correct them constantly. I lived through it would seem like a crazy claim." Except Desmond didn't go to normal school.

That fact though made his eyes widen. "You and Leo? Wow. I mean, good pull, he was cute, and he did love his assassins." Desmond just figured if he was going to marry an assassin it would be Ezio, but that was impossible back then, and also, clearly not what happened. "And a vampire too. Shit, I'm sorry they aren't here then." Losing a spouse or multiple lovers like that? Harsh. He had a moment of panic, thinking about what would happen if Lucy was taken from him too. It made him too sick to focus on so he ignored it.

"Uh ... to be honest, this place might be boring in comparison."

[loyalrebel]

"Most accounts are disturbingly eurocentric." Malik huffed in only half joking indigence about the matter.

He actually manages to look shy beneath weary sort of sadness that actually thinking about Leonardo and Melissa brought. "They both had...very big hearts, Melissa just hid hers better. I admit that I am not sure I want them here, much as it would be good to see them, the idea of them being happily back home is far more reassuring of one. I would rather they be happy more than anything else.

'I will happily take boring for the time being, though I doubt I will sit around doing nothing for long."

[moderndayassassin]

"Of course they are. To the victors go the spoils. Or whoever writes the most books and gets the most people to believe they're true wins the court of public opinion." He learned a thing or two from living in history. It all depended on who was telling the story.

"You're a lot less selfish than I am. I do kind of want to see Shaun and Rebecca again. Maybe not stuck here permanently, they'd hate it, but I don't know. I guess I just want them to know that Lucy and I are alright somewhere." Desmond really doesn't know how they would feel about Lucy being there, because it was something they just didn't talk about. He liked to think they at least wouldn't mind her being alive somewhere.