"Sounds like you know her pretty well, if you're calling her that."
The man's voice is heavy as stone. Like stone, it is hard, but not in a way that is unkind—simply in a way that does not compromise itself for anything as irrelevant as social niceties. You can recognize him, actually: the man with the axe—the executioner. The one who had been called "Harlowe."
"Or else you're here for an abhorrent weapon." His hand rests, deceptively at ease, on an axe that hangs from his belt.
The man's expression doesn't change, but hand no longer looks quite so ready to grasp that axe—though someone like that is never really unarmed. You know the type.
"She'd be right about it. You're more her Familia than us, now."
Adalet's expression darkens, her voice taking on the kind of carefully controlled quality of someone who is only speaking neutrally through conscious effort.
"Gave all our Shards to different Imperators. Without hers, Kiri was... just shattered pieces of metal. And apparently Lord Entropy wasn't interested in repairing an abhorrent weapon."
She meets your eyes. "We fucked up. Familia Leli doesn't exist anymore."
Your hands brush the blossoms, and for a moment you feel yourself breaking— —no, Falling—
There was a moment when all of it changed. For her; for you. A break as sharp as the cutting edge of a sword; as lasting as a scar. And all the World could only be, then, a before and an after. Or perhaps you should instead say: you see the World in a way you could not have seen it, before.
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also they kind of hate it.
the stand there for awhile, silent as their ears bob up and down, and then: ]
Where's Kiri Hellfire Cut Through All Foes Khrysaor, Temptation of Angels?
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The man's voice is heavy as stone. Like stone, it is hard, but not in a way that is unkind—simply in a way that does not compromise itself for anything as irrelevant as social niceties. You can recognize him, actually: the man with the axe—the executioner. The one who had been called "Harlowe."
"Or else you're here for an abhorrent weapon." His hand rests, deceptively at ease, on an axe that hangs from his belt.
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Of course I know her well. She's a member of my pack. Or - I suppose she'd say I'm part of her familia.
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"She'd be right about it. You're more her Familia than us, now."
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Adalet's expression darkens, her voice taking on the kind of carefully controlled quality of someone who is only speaking neutrally through conscious effort.
"Gave all our Shards to different Imperators. Without hers, Kiri was... just shattered pieces of metal. And apparently Lord Entropy wasn't interested in repairing an abhorrent weapon."
She meets your eyes. "We fucked up. Familia Leli doesn't exist anymore."
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You know what a person sounds like when they're in love.
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Maybe. Or maybe things just get worse, and you've only ever made them better. It's best to not decide things until they're decided.
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"For this version of us, everything has changed."
And star of bethlehem snowdrops blanket the grass around you.
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[ they kneel to touch the flowers. ]
1/2
—no, Falling—
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Adalet pauses as you touch the flowers, waiting patiently.
"So. What do you think?"