[continuations with tiny!Charles]

[mind_over_metal]

[so short and tiny and cute etc.]

Comments

[mind_over_metal]

For me.

[goddamnemperor]

That is good enough.

[mind_over_metal]

You'd promised that you'd continue your story.

[goddamnemperor]

So I did. Where were we last?

[mind_over_metal]

*sitting himself in a nearby chair*

You and your sister had just escaped. But then you left.

[goddamnemperor]

[nods, his eyes glazing over slightly]

My sister thought me dead and went to find our killer. I went in search of the fabled city Jacurutu.

[mind_over_metal]

...she didn't know what you were doing?

[goddamnemperor]

I never told her.

[mind_over_metal]

*curious, not judging*

Why not?

[goddamnemperor]

I did not want her to choose. I did not want to see her make this choice. It was cowardice.

[mind_over_metal]

Would she have done it if you had told her?

[goddamnemperor]

She might have. She loved me dearly. But she might not. Her love did not extend so far.

[mind_over_metal]

Still, you were just protecting her.

[goddamnemperor]

I was. [there are a flicker of images] At least, that is what I believed then.

I left. I made my way to the sietch.

[mind_over_metal]

*makes a bit of a face at the last word*

What's that?

[goddamnemperor]

A... town. A town within a cave. Jacurutu. It was the land of the water-stealers, heretics. They were wiped out, but there I saw my fate. So I went.

[mind_over_metal]

What did you find there?

[goddamnemperor]

Sandtrout. The infant form of the giant sandworm. They were kept in sandpens for breeding purposes. And to be sold-offworld. There, I was captured by smugglers.

[mind_over_metal]

Was that part of your plan?

[goddamnemperor]

Yes and no. I knew it was a point of time that was important to me, but the sandtrout, I did not expect.

[mind_over_metal]

*nods*

You must not get too many surprises.

[goddamnemperor]

One hopes so. But the truth was, my powers were not as they are now.

[mind_over_metal]

What were you like back then?

[goddamnemperor]

I wasn't much different. I was weaker, more... fearful.

[mind_over_metal]

Everyone has something that they're afraid of.