scawwy ✦ karlach cliffgate

[recession]

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w0, FRIDAY 2

[ablazement]

[hey how's it going other not dead eyepatch guy

anyway wherever we are, karlach immediately reaches for him, gently resting a hand on his arm.]

You okay?

[recession]

[ He's so tense when she reaches out all of a sudden, raising his arms instinctively. ]

Karlach.

...Do you feel that strangeness in the air?

[ablazement]

I do, yeah. Magic's all fucked.

[she doesn't pull her hand away, but she does go very still so she doesn't freak him out.]

Do we know what happened?

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No, I'm a stranger to it all as much as you. I wanted to look and check up on others after the night's stunt, and then I return to...

[ He glances over at the bulletin. ]

[ablazement]

Yeah.

[there's text that crawls across her face - should've been there, let him die, let them die and vanishes.]

Yeah, just... I don't get it, he was with us.

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Mr. Aventurine... was a curious, and resourceful sort. Maybe he'd found a way that the rest of us didn't.

I didn't mean to fall asleep...

[ He'd been pretty certain he wouldn't have been able to, actually. But surprise. He looks at the text, at Karlach's face. ]

How are you feeling...?

[ablazement]

Yeah, maybe.

[her tail flicks in agitation. there are little flames licking through her hair.]

Pissed, mostly. Just - fucking angry. We got locked in and knocked out and woke up to two people dead. One of them's missing a hand, even, what's not to be furious at?

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It seems all deliberate, doesn't it...

[ Words snake around his throat like a choke hold. TERMINA IS UPON US. ]

One of us...?

[ablazement]

[silence, for a moment.]

No. No, it can't be one of us. [why would...]

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It’s…

[ He was about to say it’s hard to believe, but it isn’t. Not for him. ]

Is there anyone else among us who’s missing?

[ablazement]

I... don't know.

I can't get to the other three helpers, though. Crows are gone.

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…Yeah. They are.

Found out they’d turncoated, maybe…?

[ I guess I don’t ICly know about the hand but just saying, that seems oddly deliberate. ]

[ablazement]

My thought was something went after all four of them, and whatever it was only got Death. The others escaped.

But that's wishful thinking, I'm betting.

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Something…

It would still have to be out there, if it is.

Human or monster…

[ablazement]

[silence for a moment.]

Then I'll go looking for it. Whatever it is.

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What if you don't like what you find?

[ Genuine question. He has a lot of precedence to believe there'll be something bad. ]

[ablazement]

I probably won't. It wouldn't be the first time I found something fuckin' unsatisfactory on the other side of my axe.

[you don't have one of those]

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Right.

Right...

[ Man. He has a lot of apprehensions and none of them are good. ]

The entire camp is restless right now. It's not good to stay this way.

[ablazement]

[a sigh.]

No, it's not. It's going to make people panic and do some stupid shit they'll regret. [...] I'll have a go around and talk people down from it soon.

[but first she wants to be here for a bit.]

[recession]

It's probably what they want...

Presuming it is someone of the cult that's done it.

[ablazement]

Disorder's probably more fun to them. [scowls.]

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Disorder and death.

We could do without...

But it's too late for that.

[ablazement]

[gently nudges him.]

... Don't get too in your head about it, meds. It'll be alright. I'm looking after you, too.

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[ Nudged... at least he doesn't kind of flinch away this time. ]

...

Thanks.

As long as I can trust that "I'm alright", we'll be fine.

[ablazement]

[baby steps!! she'll take him not flinching.]

Yeah, of course. [it's second nature.] ... Anything I can do to help you keep trusting that?