Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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Hey. [she looks up, with a little smile. her hood is down i'm just too lazy to icon embed.]

Sooo. Hit me, I'm sure you have a lot you want to talk about.

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[Yeah, that would be reasonable, right? It maybe even would have made sense to talk sooner, but then it would be almost like they were having a conversation about something personal.]

Let's talk about Childe. You said you can't tell me, not that you don't know. Yes?

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[sniff.]

Yeeeeup.

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So it's someone's stupid item, then. And they used it on him.

[Gross.]

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[she doesn't say anything to that, but:]

What are you guys going to do with him now?

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I don't know. I think it would probably be best to kill him and be done with it.

[She chews a little at her poor thumb nail.]

He has nothing to lose now, knowing he's likely to be voted off, so he'll only become more dangerous. He may be angry with Gu Yun, or with myself and Mollymauk. But that's operating mainly from the perspective of what would be best for me, not necessarily what would be best for everyone as a whole.

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[her mouth works at that.]

I don't like the idea of just keeping him alive as a prisoner. [sourly.] But it's not up to me.

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Do you think we ought not make him a prisoner?

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[a long sigh.]

Look, uh, this is your thing. All of you. You guys decide who lives and who dies, we don't. I don't want to influence anything.

[bonetiddies]

I suppose. If the secret answer to our problems is going to be learning to forgive and befriending Childe, I'd like to be forewarned.

But I'm not planning to kill him so long as I think we can subdue him. Personally, I'd rather be a prisoner than dead.

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[snort.] No, I wouldn't ask you to forgive or befriend anybody, boo. I am not Childe's biggest fan.

[she tilts her head back.] I don't think the answer is going to be the power of friendship, this time.

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Thank God for that.

[That would be terrible.]

What about these messages from the dead some have received?

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Whaaat about them?

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Well. . . do they come as a surprise to you?

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A little. [she rubs at her neck.] But not a lot.

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I understood from others that their souls were somewhere. It doesn't surprise me either; communications from the dead are not necessarily uncommon where I'm from.

Should we consider them legitimate or suspect?

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Legit. [...] But there isn't a way to see them, or save them. They're gone, okay?

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Okay, but gone as in - beyond someone using a wish to revive them?

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That I don't know. I haven't seen the desire thing work.

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Do you think it really will? I admit at this point I'm skeptical.

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... I hope so. [a deep breath, and a slow exhale.] I really hope it does.

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I do, too.

[This conversation is getting sad.]

I have been told so many times to concentrate on the living, but that is all I do. I don't think it's useful to get in the habit of assuming death can be reversed, even though in cases it can be. But I'm not pleased if some among us were led to believe they'd be allowed to save someone with such little evidence.

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All we can ever do is try to save as many people as we can, Harrow.

[she puts lets her hand drift down into the water of the koi pond, running her finger along one of the koi that passes by.]

Hope's not a bad thing, either.

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So I keep hearing. I have never found that to be the case.

[She just watches, and sighs.]

I wonder how much we ought to be listening to the eight of you on these matters, anyway. I've found your guidance helpful, and I am not intending to express doubt or distrust in you, merely that - I don't know whether our interests are fully aligned, and I suspect if they weren't, you wouldn't be able to say so openly.

[Are you feeding us to Gluttony's cats.]

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[wrath is an expressive person - it's hard to miss the way her ears twitch and flatten back against her skull, like she's been scolded.]

I don't want to lie to you. Just so you know. [she keeps her eyes on the koi.]