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( amber ) backdated to second day of the journey

( ooc; after this exchange )

[The amber shows Saber's face. Her hair is still wet and dripping from her struggle with the fish, but her serious expression, hard gaze and cold voice is far more concerning to those who know her. She has never made this face since her arrival to the tree. Even if she has suppressed her ire, she is obviously displeased.]

Illyasviel. If you can hear me, we must speak immediately.

[She wishes to corroborate this and she's a day of journey away. Two Archer Cards and Gilgamesh mentioning them makes her draw the connection immediately.]

It is about that boy who stayed once.

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I see. It gladdens me to hear that Shirou is faring well. Thank you, Illyasviel.

It is merely a belated realization of someone's identity. I only wanted to corroborate the information I have.

Oh. Well then I'm sure you won't mind if I go find the child in question, and ask her.

Illyasviel? She seems occupied at the moment. Is it truly that important to you to know?

My dear you are soaking wet and making such important use of this sort of communication you couldn't wait another moment to ask a question of a child? Well of course it's that important to know!

I am unaffected by the water. [Is this concern?] Very well, I suppose it does not matter what you know. I ignored that the boy was Gilgamesh and that man is someone I see as my enemy.

[ A beat. ]

[ Another. A frown forming to go with this one. ]

...That's it?

[ Of course Pitch and Gil have met and of course they hit it off. ]

Gilgamesh, or rather Gil I suppose, said he intended to live as long as the body he currently had would last. If it's the same as mortal children? Give it a few years, and he'll be just what you remember. If it's not like mortal children, time may take care of this "enemy" for you.

[ What? It's only with Saber he gets this pragmatic. Little echoes of the General that Kozmotis was, once upon a time. ]

My urgency was corroborating his status from the world he came from. This is why I contacted Illyasviel to be aware of where he presently stands.

[ She is in a narrow vessel with him. She wants to be sure he is not genocidal. ]

I do not think you understand what I meant with "enemy". It is like your aversion to the golden light of the Life Stream.

[ He's her opposite, in other words, it's less about what they could be fighting over or not, and more about something deeper of what both embody. Of course, she has not heard the younger Gil's ideas of kingship, so her opinion cannot be revised. ]

Mmm. It's nothing, really. I'm trying to make sure that Shirou-san and Archer-san don't fight, too. [ Because of reasons. ]

[ Saber that is only making this more confusing. ]

You find him physically repellent?

[ Pitch has the mental image of two polarized ends of magnets trying to be forced together. Does this mean Saber and Gil fly apart in proximity of each other? ]

Did you? I see.

[ He keeps his features composed as he gazes into the amber. ]

Well, it's natural for you to do a foolish thing like that, Saber. He was a child in need, and you a knight who helps the weak and powerless. For you to turn him away would have eaten at you, since you have that chivalrous nature of yours.

Well, what is it they say? "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"--it's like that. You'll have something to regret either way, but you acted in accordance with your nature.

I suppose that is close to what I feel.

[ She does find him repellent in general. ]

He is my opposite in many ways.

[ This catches her attention, but she doesn't ask if she knows his identity. ]

You have met... Archer?

[ she nods silently, almost as if she asks for his condemnation not his absolution. she likes to blame herself for things outside her control, that she didn't know, after all.

all these years, she hasn't changed. she has only become more open about her self doubts.

"Damned if you do, damned if you don't". There couldn't be a more apt description to Arturia's existence. ]

You should cease doing this. [ she looks as if she has accepted his answer, that's probably why she's bothered with it. ] I have done nothing to help you and you are saving me with every word.

[ she feels so useless and unable to return his kindness. ]

Edited (c-closed tags) 2015-07-05 04:25 (UTC)

We met on the first day I came here.

[ And additionally: ] I also talked to him when he was doing the side quest at the mirror... recently.

The side quest? [ She gives a pause and wonders which one she has overheard. ] Which one of them, Illyasviel?

The one about the secrets.

[ He gives her a thin, bitter smile through the amber. ]

I'm acting in accordance with my nature.

Such as it is.

[ He doesn't really believe he's saving her. How could he? But he has to try. ]

...I understand. [ Does she know? Saber cannot be for certain, but she will keep her silence unless Illyasviel brings it up. ]

[ She can't save a person, because she chose the ideals, she has no regrets. That's the conclusion she reached.

So she should not wish to do something to aid him. It is neither her role nor it is something she's good at. ]

Will you tell me if there is any change in the tree?

[ She asks to steer the conversation to more comfortable and familiar topics. ]

You do, Saber-san?

It may be presumptuous of me to say this, but I think I know most of Archer's secret.

You do? ... We probably should talk in private about it when you get back.

And how was it destroyed? [ Rin asks without pause, wondering how Saber knows of this. In her world, all of the Servants were nearly indisposed of at the end including Saber.

If she knew, would she be talking so casually about it over the amber? The magus doubts it. ]

Well?

[ She looks confused at the question. Has the Grail not be destroyed in her world? She shakes her head. No, that is impossible, it must be destroyed, but maybe Rin did not witness its destruction? ]

Rin. I believe this conversation can wait until our return.

[ She says, thinking it's better to speak of this in person. ]

I will answer your questions in private.

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