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Lambert ([personal profile] whattaprick) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2018-05-17 12:21 pm

if we just stay together it'll be alright

Who: Lambert & Peridot and dead weight
Where: The Carnival
When: After Elysium.
What: An inglorious homecoming.

All things considered, everything in Elysium went a lot better for Lambert than his last encounter with True Fae, but he doesn't feel much better for it. He knows that they've only deferred their biggest problems for now -- if nothing else, the experience was a painful highlight of exactly how persistent the Ringmaster's enemies are, and they've still got their lost workers to recover -- but he can, at least, take care of one.

After everything, their return is almost anticlimactic: turn one corner, and then another, and then the Carnival entrance is there, where it was lost to shadows before. When they step through to the Carnival, and nothing follows them, Lambert isn't going to bother hiding the way his shoulders sag in relief. Rather than heading to the medical tent, though, where the Doctor might or might not be ...

"Can you bring him to my trailer?" he asks, turning to the dragon beside him. He doesn't expect her to answer him with a full mouth, but he imagines if she's tired of playing pack horse already, she'll make it known. "If not, I'll carry him the rest of the way."
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-05-26 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
See, where he had seemed less annoyed over Lambert telling Peridot about the relationship, that he went on to include the entire 'iron' part of things is what does the trick. He scowls, face drawn in a short-lived look of irritation.

"It is," Childermass can clear that part up right away. As for the rest? There's no point in trying to hide anything about the origin of the knives. "The Ringmaster gave them to me in case of an emergency. It was how I forced the Blue Rose's vines to retreat on the moon."

Or in the moon. Whatever.

"Though I imagine now that Lambert has them, they're about to become common knowledge..."
periphrasing: ((shoulders sag))

Whoops the mega thread ate my life srry

[personal profile] periphrasing 2018-05-29 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe he didn't know they were supposed to be a secret?" Peridot offers lamely, looking uncomfortable. "I don't know. Considering how many fae are apparently running around out in the athenaeum, it's probably a good idea for him to take it. Even if using it is against the rules," she says, adding that last bit at a grumble.
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-05-30 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"I think I'd rather they carry on ignoring Lambert, actually," Childermass disagrees. His lips purse into a thin line and he looks towards the trailer door. It's hard to disguise to worry written on his face, or more like he won't bother to, now that Peridot knows anyway.

"If iron can make them notice you, it'll make them notice him."
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[personal profile] periphrasing 2018-05-31 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure he'd only use it if it was an extremely dire situation," Peridot tries to reassure him with confidence, very probably giving Lambert far too much credit.
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[personal profile] atouts 2018-06-01 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Childermass, however, won't.

"He'll use it the very moment it becomes convenient to," Childermass grumbles. Awfully judgemental for someone who supposedly likes the guy, but that tends to come with knowing him fairly well or, at least, enough to worry that he's right.