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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"What good is you worrying going to do? If it makes me heal faster, please worry. Otherwise, it is neither required nor necessary. What do you need me to do?"

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:

Deirdre smiles, looking both beautiful, innocent and a hint of wickedness. This smile, only she has been able to pull off and Ian is rather certain it had come to her naturally a long time before he was born.

"It's very simple: I want you to break Corwin out of the dungeons," she says with an even voice. "And I want it to look like he managed it on his own, of course." She pauses.
"Can you handle that, Ian?"
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"It's what I've been training for for forty years. Funny thing, I was going to do that if you didn't call me, except it wouldn't have looked like an accident."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

She smiles, great satisfaction transpiring, "You make your mother proud, Ian. Take him to Shadow and restore him, then bring him back to Rebma. Don't tell April about this, alright? Don't involve her. She needs to remain Eric's for the time being."
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

Ian quickly creates and discards a half-dozen plans for helping Corwin escape.

He thnks to himself: 'The hard is part is going to be making this look like he escaped himself. Sliding him a pack of Trumps won't help. He's blind. I think there is only one way to do this. I just need my leg to be healed, because if I falter on the Pattern, both Corwin and I will die.'

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:37 am Post subject:

"Oh, and try to make this happen while Eric is away. Whoever is in charge in his absence will be under great suspicion if you play your pieces right, and assuming that it is found out at the right time. I'll leave the rest up to you... For my part, I'll go find your sister perhaps, if I feel my motherly instinct does not betray me. Good bye, dear."

...

Deirdre closes the contact.
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"Mom. I think April can take care of herself. Wow, it really hurt to say that. I've been babying her for so long, she's built up a lot of resentment, and rightfully so. On the other hand, if you think she's in trouble, then by all means save her. I told her that I've never been too proud to seek help. Or even run from a fight, when the odds are really stacked."

After she hangs up...

Ian plans to start rehabilitating his leg, which will have to happen by waiting until walking on it won't reopen the wound.

Step two. Set up someone else for this. Perfect choice: Bleys. He's dead, supposedly.

Ian makes mental notes to very quietly get some supplies, including the brandy Bleys drinks and a carton of his favorite cigarettes, to be left behind when Ian leaves with Corwin.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

There is a knock at the door and an older male servant enters without awaiting an answer, one that Ian remembers having seen allowed at the Royal Hall, enters with a variety of food and drinks, bowing his head low when Ian looks at him.

He deposits the ornate tray onto a coffee table and asks, "Will there be anything else, your lordship?"
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"Who from my family is in the castle and is Princess Florimel available? I'd like to speak with her at her convenience."

Ian wonders how long until he can reasonably walk.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:15 am Post subject:

"I will find out for you, Lord Ian," the servant says with a bow.

Ian feels rather weak, but inspecting his wounds and the ease with which he can move his limbs, he realizes that the pain can be worked through... Flesh wounds. Deep muscle cuts at worst. Artery severed at his thigh. He feels sore and slightly lightheaded.

He could walk around now without risking his wounds opening, but a full day of bed rest would do him wonders. Carrying another person would be very draining, even for a short time, while walking the Pattern in his current state would mean certain death.
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

Ian doesn't plan on dying for Corwin, although he figures it's fifty-fifty that he'll end up in a cell next to him.

Bed rest and lots of fluids and food to rebuild his strength are first and foremost.

Meat, meat and meat. Bacon, steak, chicken. Need the protein. Need to rebuild muscles. Need liquids.

Need to Trump Mom.

Ian takes out his Trump of his mother and stares at it. "Come on Mom, answer the phone."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:30 am Post subject:

Ian feels something pushing against his attempt to reach her. After a minute or so, it subsides and she answers. She is wearing a different outfit than a few minutes ago.

"Ian? Oh, it's you. What is it? Is there something more?"
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"Yes. I need you to get me something. A bottle of Uncle Bleys's favorite wine, two ornate wine glasses and a pack of his favorite cigarettes, in a tasteful kind of bag that would protect the glass."

I smile at her.

"On an unrelated topic. Once I heal up I think I'll be going home for awhile. Amber doesn't have a chef who knows the first thing about gumbo."

Now that she knows how Ian will make the escape look accidental and where he is going, he nods knowingly to her.

"I figured asking for things like that around here would be of poor taste, considering the manner of his demise."

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

Deirdre smiles right back at him.

"Rightly so. Eric will eat that kind of evidence up, considering having the death of an Amberite, even a traitor to his rule, would be a poor mark on his record if Dad ever pops up unexpectedly. I'm certain I can muster up the things you mentioned. How much time do I have? When are you going to do it?"
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Ian · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 521 Location: South Carolina

"I'll need another day or two to recover. I also need to figure out where he is. If I can find him and break into his cell the normal way, I will. Otherwise I'll have to take another day or so, make noises about going into Shadow, then Patternwalk into his cell, then Trump out."

Ian nods, rather enjoying the sudden change to espionage.

"Not sure what your time differential is, if any, but if I can get out of here as soon as possible, I would do it tomorrow, if all goes perfectly. The longer I wait the better chance there is of Eric returning."