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[ he’d been so quiet the entire time, upright and still as a buddha where he sat in some overgrown public park. (it was easier, see, to fuck around with the optics against the empty backdrop of the sky.) recounting his crimes was less a painful ordeal than it was a bleeding out, mechanical, automatic; a laying out of his bones for this little mage to pore over.
but something of her pressing and her prodding manages to slip through like fingers in his chest cavity, knuckles brushing up featherlight against his living organs. something in her words cradles the raw muscle of his heart, has the whole of him shuddering from the danger of it.
they’re just letters, simple little letters hanging against the blue of a later afternoon, highlighted in bubbles with every raggy cloud that scuds by. they are just words. ]
but something of her pressing and her prodding manages to slip through like fingers in his chest cavity, knuckles brushing up featherlight against his living organs. something in her words cradles the raw muscle of his heart, has the whole of him shuddering from the danger of it.
they’re just letters, simple little letters hanging against the blue of a later afternoon, highlighted in bubbles with every raggy cloud that scuds by. they are just words. ]
[ Now they're both crying! Two sensitive crybabies.
The words are still just floating text, so Marcille can't parse the real gravity of them—only that his answer sounds a little raw. ]
See? That by itself doesn't sound evil to me
The way you all went about it wasn't great, I won't lie about that...
But I think you have a good heart, and I think Yuji would say the same thing.
I'm sorry about your brothers, Choso. I really am.
The words are still just floating text, so Marcille can't parse the real gravity of them—only that his answer sounds a little raw. ]
See? That by itself doesn't sound evil to me
The way you all went about it wasn't great, I won't lie about that...
But I think you have a good heart, and I think Yuji would say the same thing.
I'm sorry about your brothers, Choso. I really am.
Edited 2024-04-13 01:16 (UTC)
[ it’s a long little while before choso responds again; such is the joy of e-mails and text, or would be if he put the conversation down, could put it down, if he could even bring himself to. but he doesn’t. he reads marcille’s words over again, lets them drift along in the placid, fathomless lake of his psyche like leaves to pluck up and examine. as choso levers himself up to wander and snuffle on the go, he turns each leaf over, imagines her little voice saying it and wonders why it’s such a comforting echo.
choso, he wonders what evils stain marcille’s hands in turn.
eventually, some twenty-four minutes later: ]
thank you marcille
i will remember this
[ when he’s feeling down and needs a reminder that there’s a kind little elf who smells like soap out there who has such good words, he means. ]
anything you ever need i will do my best to provide
choso, he wonders what evils stain marcille’s hands in turn.
eventually, some twenty-four minutes later: ]
thank you marcille
i will remember this
[ when he’s feeling down and needs a reminder that there’s a kind little elf who smells like soap out there who has such good words, he means. ]
anything you ever need i will do my best to provide
[ Marcille leaves him be in that time. While some small, inescapable voice in the back of her mind says she may have overstepped or upset him, she ignores it in favor of dressing up her room, doing her hair (again), hanging flowers and herbs to dry near her desk, talking to her golden hummingbird while it zips and spins circles in the air.
So maybe she's self-soothing. She's learned so much about Yuji and Choso's universe that it makes her head spin. It sounds relentless, bathed in blood. If she'd met them at an earlier time in her life, she probably wouldn't have accepted them at all. The recent events in her life back home stripped down her righteousness like a seed, down to its small and selfish core.
Or is she just lonely here, grasping desperately onto whatever small connection she cobbles together? The thought flashes in her head, and then Choso responds.
She's relieved. She sits on her bed and replies: ]
Same to you okay?
Yuji needs help but you should take care of yourself too!
So maybe she's self-soothing. She's learned so much about Yuji and Choso's universe that it makes her head spin. It sounds relentless, bathed in blood. If she'd met them at an earlier time in her life, she probably wouldn't have accepted them at all. The recent events in her life back home stripped down her righteousness like a seed, down to its small and selfish core.
Or is she just lonely here, grasping desperately onto whatever small connection she cobbles together? The thought flashes in her head, and then Choso responds.
She's relieved. She sits on her bed and replies: ]
Same to you okay?
Yuji needs help but you should take care of yourself too!
Edited 2024-04-16 20:37 (UTC)
Choso, I've been meaning to ask. How did the pact work for you? It seems like it worked well, but I wanted to hear your feelings on it.
I wasn't sure it would work at all, and it worked better than I could have imagined. I'm glad that I can be of help in battle in such a way.
[Speaking of. There's a brief pause as he takes a moment to form his thoughts.]
I would also like to apologize for needing you to come rescue us during the mission like that, and letting Yuji get to such a state.
I can assure you that I will not let it happen again.
[Speaking of. There's a brief pause as he takes a moment to form his thoughts.]
I would also like to apologize for needing you to come rescue us during the mission like that, and letting Yuji get to such a state.
I can assure you that I will not let it happen again.
I am too, but that was a very close call.
[A pause again, then:]
I don't want to see Yuji get like that because of me.
[A pause again, then:]
I don't want to see Yuji get like that because of me.
nor i.
but if it is not for you or not for me, he will use himself up for another. he will pull himself apart if it means saving someone, because he is yuji.
the problem to solve then is not one solely of you or i, Raidoy, but in keeping the rest of our allies safe.
we must give people like yuji and bakugo the peace of mind to fight without looking back.
but if it is not for you or not for me, he will use himself up for another. he will pull himself apart if it means saving someone, because he is yuji.
the problem to solve then is not one solely of you or i, Raidoy, but in keeping the rest of our allies safe.
we must give people like yuji and bakugo the peace of mind to fight without looking back.
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