lucretia

[katzepaw]

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[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...