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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-25 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ he puts the knife away, tucking it into his belt, and helps her to her feet - then reaches to push some of the hair out of her face. gently. ]

We should. Or at least - you should. There's only so much time - they're going to notice, that you've been gone this long.

Listen, I know where they are. Your parents. They aren't dead. And I can help you get to them.
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[personal profile] sacredpath 2025-03-25 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
What?

[she sort of blinks back at him, too surprised by him saying this to know how to react.]

My parents?

[how would he know? she hasn't even mentioned this to him.]
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-25 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Quick, Shadowheart. We're running out of time. You know there is a Templar sword hanging over you right now ... ?

[ he pauses, and frowns. ]

I can help. You just need to take me with you.
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[personal profile] sacredpath 2025-03-25 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[a templar sword...?]

What does this have to do with my parents? Of course I wouldn't leave you, but...

[what exactly is he talking about.]
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-25 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ he looks more insistent, verging on desperate. ]

If you bring me with you, I can help you find your parents. It's that simple! What's with all the questions?
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[personal profile] sacredpath 2025-03-25 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[a memory crossing her mind, another odd conversation. someone different that time, karlach. but... she doesn't have quite the same foggy feeling now.]

I would have taken you with me because I wouldn't ever leave you in this miserable place. But you don't know about them. You cannot know whether they are even alive, because you do not know that I even have cause to wonder about that.

What do you really want from me...?
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-25 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ he reaches out his hand, pleading. ]

I don't want you to leave me! Please, take me with you!

[ but it sounds less like richie, now. it's that funny feeling of starting to wake up from a dream, as light floods in through the window.

last call: yes or no?
]
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[personal profile] sacredpath 2025-03-25 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[it would have worked, if he'd just asked that. but he didn't, and now it doesn't even sound like him anymore.]

No. Not if you won't explain.
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[personal profile] spiritbalm 2025-03-25 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ his skin starts to burst at the seams, and the sense in the air, in every cell of her skin, is filled with a deep and gnawing envy for the world. She resents everyone who has had such an easy life growing up, anyone who had loving parents to protect them from the world. she is sickeningly jealous of all the ways in which others get to live their lives with freedom and joy, with all of their memories even. Even the bad memories bring something.

she feels her insides writhe with it, that envious feeling, that crawls beneath her skin and settles in like a contagion that will never be loosened. everyone, and everything, and the world, should pay for this.
]

Why do you need everything explained to you?! Are you a child? Are you an idiot? All I want is to see it! I need to see it all-- and you won't let me!

[ and as the creature lunges at her, everything goes white. ]