tenebraecious | continuations

Jason: they switched my unit.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: How could you, Jay?

[there's a long pause.]

Jason: so you found out.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: He told me himself.

Jason: of course he did.
Jason: he deserved all of it.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: That was not your fight.

Jason: but i couldn't ignore it.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: Following my wishes is not ignoring it.

Jason: well
Jason: guess i can't follow simple orders then.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: You do not hold an ounce of regret, do you?

Jason: i have plenty i regret.
Jason: i'd have approached this differently too.
Jason: but i still wouldve done something.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: Even if I had begged you not to?

Jason: probably.
Jason: i told you, i couldn't ignore it.
Jason: you might be able to take him, to get the one up.
Jason: but how many other people don't have that option?
Jason: even if it was personal between you two, you can't tell me you were the only one he hurt
Jason: so disown what i did. i figured you would.

Glacies Nox Fleuret: Outside.
Glacies Nox Fleuret: Now.

Jason: at the diner.

[the oppressive heat of summer rising suddenly is the only sign that she is present, going to just be standing outside atop some lower scale building with her trident]

[by the time she gets there, he's already waiting outside, definitely dressed like he's on fin now, and not bede. but he looks up.]

There are countless others I would prefer to be keeper of, but you charge me with minding him and his machinations. Is this not so?

[doing a twirl of her trident to get it under her arm]

That what you think the next step is from here?

[he moves away from the wall, and closer to the building she's on.]

You questioned the safety of others. What course of action is there to arrive at?

Why would that be your responsibility in the first place?

[there's a soft exhale.]

You wanna be done with him, don't you?

Why would it not? You feel the same pull as I do.

[swallows, stiffening up]

My life is bound to his as much as the king's. My only hope is that I am not chosen to become him.

Chosen to become him?

[tell him that's another case of them speaking differently, because.]

What do you want?

[holding her arm out, flexing hard enough to let miasma start wafting in the air but not strongly at all]

We both were given the gift of being able to absorb the scourge. I was instructed to kill that which gods could not slay, the brother of our founder king. There is no question that my body will hold more darkness than his if we follow fate's predestination, and there is no prayer nor divine act that will be my salvation.

What I desire is for you to not come near nor harm Ardyn Lucis Caelum once more. I would have your continued friendship as well, but you are determined once more to rebuff all friendly advances.

Edited 2020-08-21 22:35 (UTC)

If I "rebuffed friendly advances", you'd know it without a doubt. [his voice is-- very cold. all pretense of snark and sarcasm dropped in totality.] There's only two other people who know as much about my life as you do. And one of them's my brother.

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