When it Rains it Pours!!

And what an odd group of people it is!!

Some of the group looks rather . . .alarming, alarmingly huge and menacing to be blunt about it.

That description, of course, belonged to the

However, before the poor girl known now as Hannah can panic and run away in fright . . .

“You poor child,” one of the Caster sisters says softly, causing some of the others who’ve been travelling with this strange group to blink.

It was very . . .sincere.

Irisviel von Einzbern

I . . . do not know what to think, really.

Okay, stop right there with your eye rolling and muttering about me being “stupid” for not understanding.

I under

I perfectly understand the idea of since John tackled Medea before she could slit her brother’s throat meant that she failed becoming the vile, manipulative witch that her Legend. And due to some kind of connection I am sure that any Magus worth their salt would have sacrificed their unborn child to study, her “sisters” also got spared that fate.

These young girls . . . are really kind hearted by how they’re comforting this young blonde girl dressed in woven grasses.

But why in the name of all that his holy is this small girl doing here in what should be a mid sized Japanese city? Dressed like this?!

I mean Aslan whisked us away from an urban, Japanese city. And it had been said that we’d be put back where we’d been whisked away from, from the less than satisfying briefing Rei and her gang gave us.

. . .

The “child friendly” briefing, the kind that gives a picture of what is going on (barely) but leaves out all the things that would “upset” little Ilya. The one who is actually a child and not merely a teenaged young woman with arrested physical development (amongst other things my damnable Family has done).

It all had to be done verbally, and not “psionically” as I and others in the Magus circles guiltily have read in our spare time. An open secret that we magi have all done but of course cannot actually say we have.

Or at least could not have done in “polite” company back in my day. Looks like that has changed from the Fourth Grail War and the Fifth one by how Rin talked openly about it and liking it…

. . .

Rei is NOTHING like what those children books that Kiritsugu smuggled in for me, honestly. The Champions in those books . . . aren’t like what she and her companions are here.

More like “real life” versions of those children stories? Yes, that it so very much what it is here. And I am VERY sure that Kiritsugu would get along VERY well with them. Much more than what I’ve seen him with Saber.

Or it would be except for the whole “stunning” business with me earlier.

Could have been much worse though, and admittedly me trying to attack what basically amounted to a Heroic Spirit? Got to admit the shock of actually seeing me child broke the Self Hypnosis I had been utilizing to prevent myself from slipping into a crippling depression over being forced into this damnable Grail War led to that foolish move.

Even IF I should have pulled out a miracle and defeated the group with my magicks, there was the fact that Berzerker would have come and finished me before I’d be able to do a blessed thing for Ilya (any of them).

. . .

The thought of me now have multiple copies of my daughter still makes my head spin here. Got a MUCH better feel of how the mother and father of Fred D’Honaire felt when faced with this situation!!

But the thing here is that we have Medea (all of them), coming from the princess of Colchis as told in Greek mythology, being so kind hearted? I mean I know that her . . .their personality was very different from that monster in her Legend before they’d met Jason. I know that intellectually.

I just am having trouble adjusting to the reality in my heart.

I mean Medea got her place in the Throne of Heroes by being a monster and should be summoned as a monster.

Not like this….

“Can you help me?” the young girl finally manages to ask tearfully to the group. “I don’t know how I got here. Or why I’m here.

”All that I know is that my name is Hannah!” she finally finishes off, bursting fully into tears. One of the Medea sisters (cannot tell one from the other) leans over and hugs her, making comforting sounds as she cries softly.

That is until . . . .

”What?” my husband coughs, slightly choking in surprise on the cigarette he was smoking. ”Hannah as in Hannah Fredrics from the ‘Two Girls Prophecy’ tale?”

Hannah stops crying, having overheard that and stares at Kiritsugu.

”You know me?” she whispers, hope blooming in her eyes.

But . . .wasn’t Hannah supposed to be a young teenage girl? Why is she here? Why is she a young prepubescent girl?! Where is Belboz?

What kind of sick game was Elaine doing here?!

Rei and most of her group (namely her older sisters and her husband) give my husband a look that seemed to say “Not helping here” before turning back to the young girl.

”Ask later,” John says quickly, after gesturing to get our attention. “We’ve got . . . other things to take care of and quick here right now!”

He then gets out one of his weapons (a prosaic 20th century rifle of all things) and is looking around, as if expecting something to just appear from the brush and ambush us.

And . . .that might not be out of the realm of . . .possiblity. There IS sound of some kind of battle going on here in the near distance.

“Saber . . .what wrong?” I blink, turning finally and seeing that she (as well as the other Heroic Spirits) look somewhat disoriented and dismayed over something.

“This is . . .Camelot during the Battle of Camlann,” Saber Zero (MY Saber) blinks, shivering. “And . . .I’m wearing a dress? A poofy shoulder dress?”

“Rei’s wearing proper armor and I’m wearing a poofy shouldered dress with an overlay of armor to it? Are you Kidding? WHERE IS THE SENSE IN THAT?!”

"I feel strange," Saber Feels (the former Saber Alter) mutters softly. Then...a ghostly duplicate exits her body and stands before her.

1. "I won't let this go any further," the ghost proudly proclaims, a snarl on her lips before blinking. Looking first at Saber Feels and then herself, she opens her mouth as if to ask what is going on.

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