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[Dec. 4] [Suikoden III] Bearer of Good News
Title: Bearer of Good News
Day/Theme: Dec. 4, 2012 "rejoice in what I carry in my heart"
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Dios & Sasarai
Rating: PG
Good news caused Dios to pick up his pace. The bishop (his bishop) would be happy to hear this- there was a ceasefire. This was the first step toward a peace.
Even the weather seemed to have brightened in celebration of this positive step. The sun melted down through the leaves of trees on the Temple grounds and the panes of colored glass in the domes and towers. It felt warm on the back of his dark uniform.
That his bishop wanted to see an end to this war, Dios thought defensively, did not make him weak or less than his more hawkish colleagues. He wasn't afraid to do the things that needed to be done. He had spent time at the front of this conflict and other flareups before that. He wasn't a pushover; he was a realist.
It didn't matter to Dios what anyone said since the fiasco that was the last invasion of the Grasslands. They didn't know the full truth. Only he had been entrusted with it.
…And even aside from all that, out of all the bishops he had served under or near, he judged Sasarai was the wisest. Even without the appointment from his holy father (which he had recently learned had been somewhat contested at the outset, which was, on some levels, difficult to believe), Sasarai deserved the powerful position he held. He was going to do the right things for this country (if only enough of the others who maintained the balance of power in the capital would let him- but best not to get bogged down thinking about that).
He tapped on his bishop's office door, but, receiving no response, walked in. No Sasarai.
Where was he? Out of his personal quarters, unless the cleaning girl was lying (and what reason would she have to lie?).
But this kind of aimless delay could hardly cool the fervor of good feeling in Dios' heart.
"Oh, oh, excuse me," he caught the arm of Bishop Orsini in the hall, turning off the other way, "Your Excellency, could you perhaps direct me toward the whereabouts of Bishop Sasarai?" Orsini might not know, but, for all his conservative leanings, he was one of Sasarai's few friends among his cohort.
"Outside, buddy," the casual Paquinite informed him, with a gentle pat to his arm, "In the gardens."
"Thank you!"
The gardens were big, but as soon as he was outside, the demands on him to be proper and polite would ease up several degrees. Dios took the nearest set of doors out onto the walkway that circled the rounded buildings. As soon as they closed behind him, he ran.
Day/Theme: Dec. 4, 2012 "rejoice in what I carry in my heart"
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Dios & Sasarai
Rating: PG
Good news caused Dios to pick up his pace. The bishop (his bishop) would be happy to hear this- there was a ceasefire. This was the first step toward a peace.
Even the weather seemed to have brightened in celebration of this positive step. The sun melted down through the leaves of trees on the Temple grounds and the panes of colored glass in the domes and towers. It felt warm on the back of his dark uniform.
That his bishop wanted to see an end to this war, Dios thought defensively, did not make him weak or less than his more hawkish colleagues. He wasn't afraid to do the things that needed to be done. He had spent time at the front of this conflict and other flareups before that. He wasn't a pushover; he was a realist.
It didn't matter to Dios what anyone said since the fiasco that was the last invasion of the Grasslands. They didn't know the full truth. Only he had been entrusted with it.
…And even aside from all that, out of all the bishops he had served under or near, he judged Sasarai was the wisest. Even without the appointment from his holy father (which he had recently learned had been somewhat contested at the outset, which was, on some levels, difficult to believe), Sasarai deserved the powerful position he held. He was going to do the right things for this country (if only enough of the others who maintained the balance of power in the capital would let him- but best not to get bogged down thinking about that).
He tapped on his bishop's office door, but, receiving no response, walked in. No Sasarai.
Where was he? Out of his personal quarters, unless the cleaning girl was lying (and what reason would she have to lie?).
But this kind of aimless delay could hardly cool the fervor of good feeling in Dios' heart.
"Oh, oh, excuse me," he caught the arm of Bishop Orsini in the hall, turning off the other way, "Your Excellency, could you perhaps direct me toward the whereabouts of Bishop Sasarai?" Orsini might not know, but, for all his conservative leanings, he was one of Sasarai's few friends among his cohort.
"Outside, buddy," the casual Paquinite informed him, with a gentle pat to his arm, "In the gardens."
"Thank you!"
The gardens were big, but as soon as he was outside, the demands on him to be proper and polite would ease up several degrees. Dios took the nearest set of doors out onto the walkway that circled the rounded buildings. As soon as they closed behind him, he ran.