Or perhaps. . . here is the agreement I can make with you. There was another set of footprints there, with Crow. If you tell me all you can about the arrangement between yourself and Rupert, who is gone, I will not ask you anything about who those belong to.
[He's frowning, clearly a little frustrated, but he doesn't seem angry or upset, just trying to figure out the piece that he's missing.]
If you are protecting someone, I suppose it must be Taichi, Luxanna, or Yamato. And I hardly want to see any harm come to one of those three, either. My guess would be Luxanna. She felt off to me this weekend. But it doesn't matter so much.
. . . If you're helping one of those three, then. No one deserves to have to become accustomed to spilling blood at that age. It twists your heart, it ruins you. It ruined me. So . . . I am glad that you are protecting them.
Sure. When personal feelings are involved, it is hard to see it that way.
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I've been thinking a little about. . . a friend of mine said to me once, be gentle in your motives. Don't, uhm, think about who you want to punish. Think instead about who you want to save.
I want to save, uhm, Mollymauk. But I also want to save Rupert, and whichever of the three children from fall is caught up in this, and I suppose I want to save you, too.
for a long moment, she looks utterly at a loss for words. it's a considerable pause before she finds any again, and even then, she struggles a little, lost in the consideration given. rather, she just ends up saying:]
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[He frowns, massages his jaw a little.]
Or perhaps. . . here is the agreement I can make with you. There was another set of footprints there, with Crow. If you tell me all you can about the arrangement between yourself and Rupert, who is gone, I will not ask you anything about who those belong to.
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Rupert and I... simply had the same intentions at the same time.
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Then what should we focus on?
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[she shakes her head.]
There's some things I just... can't help with.
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Are you protecting the others? Is that what this is?
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[He's frowning, clearly a little frustrated, but he doesn't seem angry or upset, just trying to figure out the piece that he's missing.]
If you are protecting someone, I suppose it must be Taichi, Luxanna, or Yamato. And I hardly want to see any harm come to one of those three, either. My guess would be Luxanna. She felt off to me this weekend. But it doesn't matter so much.
Will you help kill someone else this weekend?
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[He puts his hands in his pockets and sighs.]
. . . If you're helping one of those three, then. No one deserves to have to become accustomed to spilling blood at that age. It twists your heart, it ruins you. It ruined me. So . . . I am glad that you are protecting them.
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I'm sorry I can't help you more.
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[If she isn't going to say more, she isn't going to say more. It's fine.]
You may be right, and knowing more won't help us.
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You caught both murderers.
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I couldn't coexist with Mollymauk's killer, I admit that much, but overall. . . preventing death is worth much more than finding killers.
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I agree.
Although if someone felt otherwise, I would feel they were within their right to do so.
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[. . .]
I've been thinking a little about. . . a friend of mine said to me once, be gentle in your motives. Don't, uhm, think about who you want to punish. Think instead about who you want to save.
I want to save, uhm, Mollymauk. But I also want to save Rupert, and whichever of the three children from fall is caught up in this, and I suppose I want to save you, too.
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for a long moment, she looks utterly at a loss for words. it's a considerable pause before she finds any again, and even then, she struggles a little, lost in the consideration given. rather, she just ends up saying:]
Thank you.
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. . . Well, it's nothing to thank me for. I just wanted to say so.
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Your friend was very wise.
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Irritatingly so, at times. Always right when you don't want him to be.
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[she nods.]
But I appreciate it, right now.