AUDIENCE: LUP

[retellers]

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week 2, sunday

[retellers]

[ Wolf's texting etiquette is usually terrible, but this is ridiculous. They don't answer for hours, until, eventually, Lup gets a place--

"get to the church".

Now, she knows there's no. Real. Church anywhere, but i guess Lup is walking unsupervised through the castle to Wolf's bedroom. Just kidding, they're waiting near the entrance. ]

C'mon.

[ they. have looked better, but they're already walking her back ]

[evocationary]

[ stop she wants to steal something from the castle

she hurries up to him, though, immediately keeping pace. ]

Hey. What's going on? Is Fox okay?

[retellers]

What? [ it comes off a little slow, like wolf is exhausted or having trouble concentrating ] Yeah. Fox is fine. [ a beat ] Well. As fine as Fox ever is.

[ it's fine. here they are at the room and wolf opens it, stepping into the church ]

[evocationary]

[ she... follows, but she also puts a hand on their back carefully, like she's trying to support them up. lightly! she doesn't want to freak them out. ]

Annnd you, are you good?

[retellers]

[ she's the one who's gonna freak out when he doesn't shrug her off immediately, tbh. he takes off his mask and hood with a sigh ] ... Headache. It'll pass. [ wow he has looked better ]

[evocationary]

[ oh wow that is freaky. she looks very concerned. ]

... How about you uh, sit down. Do you need water? [ go on. sit. ]

[retellers]

I'm fine. [ in a little annoyed tone, but he does sit down at a pew, holding a hand. to his head. though he sounds pensive when he talks again. ] You were right. I am a merc. Or... I was trying to be.

[evocationary]

Oh - shit, you --

[ a pause. ] I was going to ask about that. The thing is flashing, the - phs. Is that all you remembered?

[retellers]

... No, it wasn't. [ he's staring blankly at his fist as he flexes it a little ]

[evocationary]

[ she scoots over to settle against a pew, watching him worriedly. ]

You want to tell me about it?

[retellers]

[ ... he sighs and clenches his jaw a bit ] You're not gonna like it.

[evocationary]

[ she gives him a flat look. ]

If I had a platinum for every time I heard that one. Tell me, my dude.

[retellers]

... Don't go around sharing this with everyone else yet. Alright? I know you've got your seventeen alliances, but I'd rather this not make the rounds to everyone through shared pacts or whatever you guys all have. [ but that said, they sigh ] There's a way to bring back the people who have died in the Realm.

[evocationary]

[ wow don't call her out on her friendships ]

... Really? [ she leans forward a bit. ] How?

[retellers]

... It's tied to teams. To bring back the people on yours, you have to kill a certain amount of people. [ and for once in his life he actually expands on it right away: ] Killing generates a... different kind of nova. Get enough of that, and it can make a path to... wherever the people who died ended up.

[evocationary]

[ ... hm. he was right, she doesn't like that. her fist clenches a little against the wood of the pew. ]

... Okay. Okay. [ she bites at her bottom lip. ] Did you ask someone to kill this week? Was that why, or did you just remember this today?

[retellers]

[ he told her so, wow ] Haven't asked anyone to kill. Just... remembered it today. [ so that's. a thing. ]

[evocationary]

Okay, well, then why is my thing flashing. [ ... a beat. ] Oh. That must just mean someone did it themselves, then.

Can you, like, please just take a breather for a second, you're giving me anxiety.

[retellers]

I'm sitting down, aren't I? [ so there???? ] It's fine.

[evocationary]

[ okay but she still looks worried!! ]

You look like an elevator fell on you. [ huff. ] I'm not going to tell anybody what you just told me. But. Do you know if anybody knows that's the case?

[retellers]

Wow. Thanks. [ but he shakes his head lightly before grimacing, because, no doing that when you have a headache this big sucks. ] ... I haven't told anyone else, but if I can remember that, any of the other Leaders could, too.

[evocationary]

[ man if only she had magic so she could get him some ice. ]

Yeah. Which means - other people probably know and will... go for it. I can think of one or two people in particular who care enough about the people that got removed to kill for them.

[ sigh. ] Are you going to tell anybody else?

[retellers]

... The way information moves in this place? Probably not.

[evocationary]

[ snort. ]

Fair enough! [ she'll keep it to herself! mostly because she likes wolf... ] Do, um.

[ she fidgets. jittery. ] Do you think I should... kill people to bring the other ones back?

[retellers]

... I'm not going to make the moral call for you. Ultimately, it's what you'd be willing to trade. [ there's a beat, and then he huffs ] But I wouldn't bother right now.