QUASIPLATONICROMANTIC NOT-MESS

[chanteuser]

i'm still wheezing y'all

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[robopriest]

Goodness gracious. This place is really built to stab you where it hurts, huh.

[Emet-Selch Trauma Central! Got to love it!]

I'm sorry. That you had someone like that who was...losing himself. [And he was helpless to do anything.] Especially after all that you lost...

[arkitect]

Well, I suppose the fortunate part of it is that there is little it can do to me which is new.

[please don't say that so fucking flippantly.]

Hansa, you do understand what else I am telling you, do you not?

[robopriest]

Hm.

[Yeah, don't say it like that!! Binch!!]

[And his expression is grim.]

...Which one did you kill? Soo-won? Or Ochako?

[arkitect]

You know as well as I that we no longer needed to kill for our numbers.

[he is fairly sure hansa can work out why, then, and therefore which.]

[robopriest]

...

Let me guess. Won, then.

[arkitect]

...it was a necessity.

[robopriest]

[He buries his head in his hands.]

[One important person killing another. He's just...]

[So, so tired.]

...Words cannot describe how much I hate this damn Realm for making us play these. Murder games. Shit.

[arkitect]

I have grown quite weary of it, myself.

[he just- shifts closer, with a huff of an exhale. he doesn't reach out, but if hansa wants to, it's a silent indication that he'll accept.]

...but I would ask you not to share this with others, for the record.

[robopriest]

Of course I wouldn't.

[He finally lifts his head to look at Emet for a long moment. To think...what if it had gone wrong last night? What if Won had retaliated? In that state, splintering, he could have...]

[He reaches out, grasping the other's hand, intertwining their fingers.]

...In the end, I'm glad you're okay. I hate that this place forced you to do it. But you're here now, and that's what matters.

[chanteuser]

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ah. ]

... is that why you stayed elsewhere that night? Hilda said he was notably showing signs of splintering, by the end of everything....

[ the surprise is there but also she just looks... tired. again, this place keeps messing with all of them, doesn’t it? from the people who splinter to those who have to deal with them. ]

[arkitect]

I did not wish for any of you to be exposed to more danger.

[he hadn't stayed with soo-won, after all-- just somewhere away from their camping spot in the forest, so any fight would not be brought to them.]

[chanteuser]

[ why are both of their immortals like this, send tweet. ]

... [ she sighs. ] It's appreciated. Thank you for telling us.

I'm just... glad that things were probably set for us to find someone else, yesterday. Even if I wish it hadn't been Dorothy. [ it was always going to be somebody though, and that's just how this place works. ]