I9DT - Once more with Feeling

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:35 pm

Some time after her run-in with Tommy and getting to thinking Nailah heads to Roland's office and knocks on the door.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:36 pm

"Enter."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:44 pm

"Good afternoon, Roland." she says, closing the door behind herself. "I... think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:44 pm

"Professor Weaver, we couldn't have gotten off less on the right foot if I was a millipede."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:53 pm

"Right. Well... I could fall back on what my shrink says and hope for pity, but the truth is, the last year has made it hard to trust people and that is my problem, not yours..." she starts.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:56 pm

"See, you're over-extrapolating. If I did the same, pretty much everyone here would probably be dead by now, because I'd snap every time someone stepped behind me."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:07 pm

"I know I am. You just happened to meet me at a time when I didn't. Hell I did the same thing to a very good friend of mine and... well I don't know if I'll ever be able to tell her I'm sorry now."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:08 pm

"Ah, regrets. Yes, I suppose I've been there, once or twice.

Never does get any easier."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:10 pm

"No... But I can at least make sure there aren't any more. And I suppose that's what brings me here..."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:14 pm

Roland waved his hand. "I've been treated far worse by far better. Don't worry about it."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:20 pm

"Thanks. I just wanted you to know that once classes start you won't have to worry about me giving you the evil eye in the teacher's lounge." she musters a faint smirk.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:22 pm

"I dunno, you might look good in an eyepatch," he smirked.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:25 pm

"Like I need to make my reputation worse. I manage to scare off students just fine without one, thanks." she chuckles weakly.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:37 pm

"So, is that your goal, then? Because, honestly, I've seen it played stronger.

I've probably PLAYED it strong myself."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:44 pm

"It's not all that strong because it's not a play. I'm just not quite there yet."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:47 pm

"So, what's your goal for this next year, then? How do you WANT people to view you?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:55 pm

"Depends on the person, doesn't it. But if I'm honest I don't know yet. Ultimately I think I want to make sure people can learn from my mistakes without seeing me as broken. Or worse, being terrified of me."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:39 pm

"And what, prey tell, were those mistakes? I don't see many mistakes..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:45 pm

"Thinking I was being strong when really I was just lashing out in anger all around me."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:50 pm

"Ah, so the reaction, not the action, then, yes?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:04 pm

"That's not it. It's hard to explain. Call it astral or philosophical or spiritual if you want but steeling yourself and trying to fight things down only left me weaker than I was before and I didn't even notice."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:13 pm

Roland nodded. "Yeah---sometimes you need to break down."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:19 pm

"No. Kind of but... Good lord, you really do get used to sharing things with a telepath. It's bit of Zen. Tranquility maybe? I did break down before I found it though, that's for sure."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:31 pm

"Ah, I've never paid too much attention to Zen. The orientals never really held my attention."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:44 pm

"It seemed like it might fit, even if I'm probably horribly mistaken about eastern philosophy."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:52 pm

"Well, if it brings you peace, I suppose..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:56 pm

"A parting gift, of sorts. Just like the sword."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:56 pm

"Sword?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:00 pm

"The khopesh. I used to think it was a trophy of sorts but maybe it was more of a parting gift..."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:05 pm

"Ah, yes. I missed the memo requiring us to be armed on campus."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:15 pm

"I forget, you haven't been on campus long." she jokes, though it falls a little flat. "But I get your point. It just isn't a weapon to me first and foremost. It stood for something I was still trying to figure out."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:21 pm

"And now?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:26 pm

"Now it's a gift. She didn't know she was giving it to me until the very end..." she starts and with that she tells him about the fallen Birdwoman of Akah Ma'at, only leaving out Sean and Vickie and the circumstances of how she came to face Rudra in the first place.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:45 pm

Roland nodded, listening.

"An interesting gift, then. The shape of it would not, normally, lend itself to the meaning you're ascribing to it---but looks can be deceiving."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:49 pm

"It could be a piece of rock for all that matters in the end. Though maybe not quite coincidental that it's an ancient Egyptian relict."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:55 pm

"I suppose it DOES fit in with your particular...motif."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:07 pm

"Why fight the obvious."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:09 pm

Roland chuckled at that. "Yes...why indeed..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:18 pm

"What about you? No preferred century or civilization yourself?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:13 pm

"See, that's just the thing--you can't get bogged down by that, you know? You have to keep moving, or you end up, well..."

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