Joshua: Hello Raven, long time no see.
Raven looks up from the seeds she was eating to see Joshua looking back at her with an almost amused expression, although the bandages made it difficult to be certain.
Raven: Have we met?
Joshua: Yes, we have... in a sense.
Raven: I don't recall meeting you, especially with how "unique" you dress.
Joshua: I assure we have met. You were the only one who escaped me. Perhaps it was best that you did.
Raven realizes what Joshua is implying and places her hand on Omen.
Raven: What do you want from me? Are going to try take what belongs to me, again?
Joshua: No. Your powers are the least of my concerns right now. For the moment at least.
Raven: Then what do you want?
Joshua: To talk.
Raven raises a brow
Raven: To talk, really?
Joshua gets up and goes to a coffee machine to get himself a mug of the brown bean juice.
Joshua: Yes, it is not often people like you and I can converse with each other, Ms Branwen. Coffee?
Raven declines the offer
Raven: If you want to "talk", fine. Just don't go asking dangerous questions.
Joshua: I can't promise that. Now, I have always wondered what you mean by "The strong live and the weak die"?
Raven: I think you know what I mean.
Joshua: I do not. My mind isn't poisoned by the selfish nature of briggandry. So please enlighten me.
Raven: Only the strong deserve to live, the weak must die.
Joshua: Mmm. A rather shallow way to live if you ask me.
Raven: My turn for a question.
Joshua: By all means.
Raven: Why are "you" here?
Joshua: I am here so I can help prevent the younger generation from falling down the same path that I did. Not only that but Ozpin hired me to be the counselor here.
Raven: And Ozpin. What do you think of him?
Joshua sips his coffee through a straw.
Joshua: Ozma or Ozpin, is secretive. He has his secrets, as do most in this world. I do however believe that he is paving the way for many problems to arise in the future.
Raven: And what do you think he is doing that makes you say this?
Joshua: He is withholding information that the public needs to know. He doesn't want the general public to know that the Grimm have a queen, he wants everyone to believe that we are in a time of peace, but this is the calm before the storm. More importantly he has become stagnant.
Raven: Oh really? I barely noticed.
Joshua: He is too concerned with keeping people calm and ignorant. He has given up on fighting Salem directly.
Raven: Little does he know that he is indirectly helping my family.
Joshua scowls knowing which "family" Raven is talking about.
Joshua: Ah yes, your little group of ragtag individuals who know nothing about working.
Raven: Why do all the work when you can have someone else do it and reap the benefits of their labor?
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The Burned Arc
FanfictionA month before his younger sister Jeane goes to Beacon Joshua Graham or Jaune Arc is approached by Ozpin to join as a Councilor as he knows how to deal with trauma and as a teaching aide for Goodwitch. Oz doesn't know that Joshua was a servant of Sa...
