Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 22:05:00 GMT
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
The mask was off, and a phone hung from an ear even as eyes stared out the window.
“Hey you.”
The voice on the other end manged a chuckle.
“Hey, any progress? Still having fun?”
A chuckle.
“I might be losing now and again but yes, lots of fun.”
A pause.
“We’re watching…we miss you.”
A small sigh.
“Yeah… I miss you too.”
He’d turn against the glass looking away from the view outside catching his own reflection and that red mask even as he sighs.
“I Told AJ.”
The other voice chuckles a little and there a sigh.
“I said you wouldn’t be able to resist, why AJ?”
A pause and he manages a sly smile and a chuckle.
“Because he’s a good man.”
The other voice chuckles.
“You are an asshole.”
He manages a soft sigh and a chuckle eyes now fixing on another figure as they walk the streets and he picks up the red mask with a slight chuckle.
“Watch your language.”
Another pause and the sound of something breaking in the background and he mange a smile.
“I know…You gotta go, take care love.”
The other voice kissed down the phone and hung up to go del with whatever crisis was happening even as he examined his own reflection in the red mask of the Redcap and smirked just a touch.
“Let’s dance again, shall we?”
We fade in on The Redcap’s mask and a form and shadows behind it a a hand caressing the top as it sits down in a high backed chair shadows masking the features of whoever speaks as there’s a chuckle.
“Good evening gentlefolk, time for a story of a man who would defy time and his place in the Heir to the throne weaving throughout Lineage.”
A long pause and a hard breath.
“But our fight and dance does not take place under dazzling lights and screaming fans but it ushers festivities in, the preamble to the rest of the show, and so The Jack of knaves has to dance and sway to join down the Silver Path with Thaddeus Bancroft.”
The mask gets picks it up and for a second a glimmer of reflective light catches his face for just a moment but you only see an eye glaring at the camera and the flash of a smile that seems just a bit too wide.
“Thaddeus is a man of reason, who lives just one step the right side of madness and genius, a man of questions and answers a man who looks closer at every answer a man who looks upon the face of god and finds but empty space, and a man who is my opponent, brains, brawn and British but he has a fatal flaw.”
Redcap's voice goes up a tone as you can detect the image of a smirk even if you don't see it.
“Pride, pride in his work, pride in his intellect pride in his ability and the absolute denial that anything is his fault , the absolute certainty that things can be fixed by his magnificence alone, that he is untouchable.”
A pause and The Redcap leans forwards his mouth and lower jaw coming into shot that wide smile and familiar voice all the clearer now.
“All the more to punish you with Thaddeus, I said there would be no more games, no more lightness, I am not afraid to dip into the thorny busy and draw a little blood to get what I desire and that is to remain in contention for the Heir and there is only one way to do this right now.”
A soft sigh, jaw tightening as the smile fades.
“I have to make you tap.”
The mask comes on up and the clasps open even as he sits back into the dark speaking some more.
“You deserve punishment, you think you are safe but my law is not the law you know, my law is the old law and my ways are the old ways and so I will punish you Thaddeus Bancroft I will make….you…Tap, what’s fate is fate..”
He chuckles and speaks with athat wry smirking tone.
“I will ensure no escape, there will be nowhere to run.. nowhere to hide no trick too difficult I am wise to your games, I have played too long and now I must feast and feats I shall, I will drag you off the Silver path and show you the horrors of Arcadia there will be no snickersnack for you Thaddeus I want you to feel your loss to me as a reminder of the good you could have done.”
A deep, deep sigh.
“The justice denied to you because you Thaddeus , you wound me with your very Banal existence, you must be punished and so I dedicate my very waking minute to hearing you tap.. You might think me incapable of such…But I have yet to show all my tricks.”
The red masked form of the Redcap leans forwards into the light fully as he exits the chair to crawl forwards towards the camera again.
“Allow me to show you a few come Linage Captain, my captain , I wonder if you are ambidextrous..We will see…”
He starts to chant to himself.
“Tap, Tap,tap goes the Bancroft, ring ,ring, ring goes the bell. Tap, Tap,tap goes the Bancroft, ring ring ring goes the bell.”
Fadeout to this repeated verse.
Well howdy there pardner.