Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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[she'll reach out to take his hand, linking their fingers. her hand is very warm, as usual, but it's also covered in far more lava cracks than usual.]

Well, as long as it works.

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[ he squeezes her hand, his thumb running along the edge of one of the lava cracks carefully. ]

It has done so far. It's all just me being selfish, anyway.

[ ... ]

Are there more of these? [ he rubs his thumb a little firmer against her hand. yuri, you can't just ask a girl if she has more lava cracks? ]

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It's not selfish to want to remember the people you care about. [she mutters. but.

she's quiet, and then:] Uh, no. It's fine, it's the same as always? Don't know what you're talking about.

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It doesn't do the dead any good. It's all just for me. [ ... ] But that's the point.

[ ... he gives her hand a slightly firmer squeeze. ]

Wrath.

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[huffy noise.]

Look, I got - really super ticked off yesterday. I'm fine now. Probably. Don't worry about it.

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[ .....






he snorts. ]

You rage cracked your hand?

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[there's a bit of steam that comes out from under the hood!]

It - yeah, sure, let's go with that.

[aubins]

Wrath.

[ oh geez. ]

What did you get mad over? [ he waves their joined hands slightly. ] This?

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[STUBBORNLY QUIET FOR A MINUTE

and then:]

Gu Yun went missing. [huff.]

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[ ..... geez ]

The Thursday vanishing act? [ wrath your gu yun feels uwu ]

... yeah. That’s fair. [ he’ll give her hand another squeeze, rubbing his thumb in circles against her knuckle. ] Those... vanishing events don’t seem to be letting up either. One last week. One yesterday...

[ one more thing to worry about ]

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[she has a lot of feelings all the time always, yuri u_u]

I'm not a fan, especially since I can't, uh - I can't see where you guys go? And I can't figure out what's causing them or like, how to stop it. It's frustrating! Very frustrating. And I have, you know - uh, the worst temper, because.

[gestures at herself. wrath.]

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[ uwu uwu ]

Is it like the recalibration thing this place does? Only— [ he makes a popping motion with his hand, open and closed ] with us getting spirited away somewhere instead of death trap executions?

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Come find me next time. You don’t have to tell me who’s missing, but surely it’d be better to smack something around in the gym or a simulation than potentially hurting yourself.

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[shrug at that first part.] Maybe.

[... as for the second part:] I'll think about it. I'm not really supposed to -- I've got it. I handled it.

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It's not good either way. [ is the take away. ]

... The offers there if you really need it, rules or no. Just try not to get yourself into trouble too, or we'll have some kind of loop of panic and worry from a whole bunch of us. [ fwuwwy my other wwath ships ]

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[she laughs a little.]

Ah, uh - wouldn't want to disappoint my fanclub. [jokes, jokes.] I'll do my best, babe.

Are you going to be okay? Really, honest answer.

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Do we get badges? [ fan club, fan club. ] That's better than nothing, I'll hold you to that.

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Yeah.

I'm from midway through a war, after all. If you give up after every loss, you just spit on the people who're gone and you don't get anything done.

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Fair enough. You can still feel it, but I, uh. I get it. Sometimes it's easier to just try and pick up and go.

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...

It's bad we know enough about it to have tried and true methods of handling it, isn't it?

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Sure is!

But. You know, that's life, I guess.

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Or death.

[ ... ] We can't exactly just roll over and give up every time.

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Mm. [she takes his hand.]

I expect you to not roll over and give up.

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It's not on my to do list, don't worry.

[ he squeezes her hand, and then after a moment, fuck it, lifts it to give her a kiss on the knuckles. ] And I'll give anyone who tries to make me do otherwise hell.