Audience: Grace Monroe

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Hmmmm... [ thinking dramatically ] I guess I'll allow it. Mostly for the gibberish thing, that was funny.

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Wasn't it, though? He deserved it. What a butthole.

[alteracion]

[ he's dead this week so this is funny ]

Isn't he? He's so smug all the time. What's he even got to be smug about?

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[this does not change wrath's opinion]

Definitely nothing! He's not even that good looking, jeez.

[alteracion]

"That" good looking?

[ grace would argue he's not good looking at all so this is funny ]

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Look. Broad shoulders is a thing for me.

[alteracion]

Broad shoulders are all he's got!

[ she's laughing ]

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Yeah! That's why I said that good looking! Everything else is ooze!

[alteracion]

You can't put a nice thing on a pile of garbage and call it okay!

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Oh, I definitely can. That's just me, I'm the hottest pile of delightful garbage.

[alteracion]

Wrath. Please. Love yourself.

You're at least recycling.

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[HFFFT. they reach out to tap her nose.]

Sassy.

[alteracion]

Who, me? Of course not. I wouldn't dare.

[ bats her eyelashes innocently ]

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Not for a second.

So - at the risk of uh, ruining the mood - what are you here for? If it's something sad, you don't have to tell me. You can make it up.

[alteracion]

It's not a big secret or anything. [ grace has said it to people, because she doesn't think the why is that big of a deal in this case ] I... want to protect a friend.

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Yeah? Best friend? Random friend?

[alteracion]

It's... [ complicated. she settles on: ] She's six.

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Oh, cute.

[they sound amused.] That's fair, yeah, wanting to protect a six year old if you're both on a train with tiny angry gnome wizards.

[alteracion]

I wish. If it was just the gnome wizards, I wouldn't need to be here. [ :T ]

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Well, duh, obviously. The implication was there are always much bigger gnome wizards on the other end of the train to worry about.

[alteracion]

Pretty much. [ let's go with that! that's a better explanation. ] But there's my reason. It's nothing that exciting.

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It doesn't have to be exciting, as long as it's important enough to work for.

[alteracion]

True. It just feels counterproductive to be here and leave her alone when my goal is... to keep her safe.

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Time's probably not moving back where she is, if that makes you feel better.

[alteracion]

It's the probably I don't like.