lucretia

[katzepaw]

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[ambiography]

I'd be trying to do the same, in your place. I did think about it, but it seemed a little pointless to compete for the same result.

[he's not the only person she might want back, but he's the one she'd pick too. as much as she liked sieg, she thinks he wouldn't want to come back over someone else.]

I bid for Hugo's, instead.

[katzepaw]

I've talked to a lot of people who have. I suppose whoever has it, it will be a help.

[ambiography]

It should be. I suppose there's maybe a little selfishness in going for it, too, but-- there are people I'd just like to talk to myself.

[katzepaw]

. . . Mm.

If we don't win, and you do, perhaps you can just. . . talk to him a little bit.

[ambiography]

If I do and there's nothing keeping me from telling you-- I promise you're the first people I'm coming to.

[as if she wouldn't pass on messages for molly.]

[katzepaw]

Danke.

[A little swell of gratitude.]

Just let him know he is cared for and we tried for him.

[ambiography]

...I will. I'll remember.

[-a brief flicker of discomfort at her own wording, there, after what happened thursday and friday, but. she's fine. it's fine.]

[katzepaw]

. . . Have you gotten them all back?

[ambiography]

-I have. It continued to come and go, up until this morning, but... I haven't lost anything today, so I think it might be over.

[katzepaw]

. . . Beauregard mentioned the hag, Isharnai. Was that the cause of it?

[ambiography]

[the answer is probably obvious before she even says anything, with the swell of discomfort that mention gets. there's guilt with it, regret.]

...I think that it was, after-- what happened with her.

[katzepaw]

Ah. I'm sorry, I shouldn't pry.

[ambiography]

It just-- came from making the wrong decision. That's all.

[katzepaw]

Well, if these things are drawn from our memories, then it wouldn't surprise me if we had also made the same wrong decision at some point.

[ambiography]

[a few moments of silence, there.]

Maybe. Beauregard mentioned her to me, too. It sounded-- similar, at the very least.

[katzepaw]

I never really dealt with the hag. I planned to just kill her. But our friend managed to trick her into letting us go unharmed before I had the chance.

Still, there are things she could have offered me that would have been difficult to turn down. That is why I would have needed to end her life as soon as I saw her.

[ambiography]

That really might have been the better option.

[another few moments of silence.]

I wasn't going to take it, at first. Saving my world from the Hunger-- I can make sure that happens myself, I was going to just... leave. But she knew the one thing none of us could fix, and I couldn't...