@punsheathed
despite his best efforts to maintain a certain level of calm, this whole situation is beginning to wear on sir bedivere. three, four days he has been here, each with a fresh round of distractions and complications, and even a knight with patience enough to last more than a thousand years might begin to fray at the edges. this is not to say that he is upset--he is in a peaceful place, his king within reach, his search concluded--he is overjoyed. but he is also worn thin, and tired in a way he has not been for a long time, and his muscles are straining with nervous energy.
this is what brings him out so far, to a frozen glade just inside the edge of the forest, sword in hand. it is a sturdy blade, but his strength has been in his silver arm, not his weaponry, and that is what spurs him to spar with invisible figures--airgetlam has no worth here. he needs to be certain he can protect the king of knights. if something were to happen because he depended on his noble phantasm too much--oh, he would never be able to bear it.
and he is not being quiet, yelling his frustrations with each swing of the blade, and maybe that is what draws the attention of another. it takes him too long to notice the presence on the periphery--sloppy, incompetent--and when he does he whirls to face them, breathless, the look on his face somewhere between divine wrath and startled rabbit.
“you--in king arthur’s name, i demand you name your business!”









