[just kind of deadeyes around the room like any of you who were with Ryn on this CYOA want to clarify what in the ever-loving fresh FUCK he is on about now. no? no takers? fuckdamn.]
How could I have known, darling, when you were so obviously the superior... [??? uh.] ...candidate? Only a fool would've chosen me over you.
Earlier, I... thought I was a professor of ... small creature studies. And that Gideon and Harrowhark and Four and Lavi were... my proteges. Going out to learn to battle with... little creatures. And that they were ten.
[ a beat. ] It wore off eventually, so... stay strong?
[...Oh, like hells he's letting you get away after a flinch like that, LBX, that's the exact flinch he was doing himself last week when people were using careless metaphors like "fall on your sword" around him. He knows what that flinch looks like. He is an expert practitioner of it.]
[ well, he won't try and fight it too much. mostly because he knows that thancred won't let him get away with it, at this point, so bixing just agrees, quietly.
his eyes, however, do sweep the room briefly, at the other occupants; mostly dva, gideon, and harrow. they return to thancred after, brows knit, expression a little pleading. ] And it may have been different... different for the others. Each of us seems to have experienced something... similar, but unique.
[ in other words: i'll tell you later. not in front of the kids. :( ]
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[and presses his face against his hair.]
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though there's a pause, and after a few more seconds he murmurs-]
Don't think this means I'll forgive you for taking my job.
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Your job?
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[huffs.]
If Kuranosuke fires me it's your fault.
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Ah.
[just kind of deadeyes around the room like any of you who were with Ryn on this CYOA want to clarify what in the ever-loving fresh FUCK he is on about now. no? no takers? fuckdamn.]
How could I have known, darling, when you were so obviously the superior... [??? uh.] ...candidate? Only a fool would've chosen me over you.
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Don't look at us. As far as I can tell, we all had different... [ ... ] ...hallucinations.
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[who's this dude anyway.]
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Earlier, I... thought I was a professor of ... small creature studies. And that Gideon and Harrowhark and Four and Lavi were... my proteges. Going out to learn to battle with... little creatures. And that they were ten.
[ a beat. ] It wore off eventually, so... stay strong?
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[sighs deeply]
And that it doesn't seem...malevolent, at least.
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No. Not malevolent at all.
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...But something else was. Is that it?
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[ well, he won't try and fight it too much. mostly because he knows that thancred won't let him get away with it, at this point, so bixing just agrees, quietly.
his eyes, however, do sweep the room briefly, at the other occupants; mostly dva, gideon, and harrow. they return to thancred after, brows knit, expression a little pleading. ] And it may have been different... different for the others. Each of us seems to have experienced something... similar, but unique.
[ in other words: i'll tell you later. not in front of the kids. :( ]
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[says. the elf currently being held. that's fine.]
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Just anyone? Why should that matter to...uhm. Kuranosuke...?
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[GET REKT.]
Surely there's a way around it. Lying, for example.
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All right. You can make it up to me by fake dating me.
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That sounds dangerous. What if you should fall in love with me for real?
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[as if...]
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[He draws him in a little closer. More protective, in a way.]
Very well. You'll have to tell me how I should best go about it. To make certain it's believable, you know.