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[retellers]

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[retellers]

Need me to carry you back later? [ ... really can't tell if he's joking there. ]

[evocationary]

... Do not offer me that if you don't mean it. [ she squints up at him ] Because yes. Absolutely.

[retellers]

I'm not joking. It'd be embarrassing if you reopened your wounds and you bled to death on the way back from the castle. [ okay, so the last part is joking which he shows by nudging her lightly when he sits down next to her flopped form. progress. ]

[evocationary]

[ she laughs. ]

Aw, jeeze, you're right. I've already embarrassed myself enough today by being emotional in public, I'd rather not die on top of that. [ she allows the nudge, grinning. ] Hey, um. I wanted to say sorry, actually.

[retellers]

Yeah. That was embarrassing. [ especially since emet didn't even die? but there's a pause before he looks down at her ] Yeah?

[evocationary]

[ NO DON'T AGREE WITH HER her insecurities!!!

she scrunches up just a little. ] Uh, yeah. You told me not to tell anybody about the nova thing and then I just, uh, immediately let it slip.

I didn't actually mean to, with Soo-Won.

[retellers]

Hm. [ it's a very non-committal noise. ] Yeah. I heard. [ ... he gonna, uh. say anything else. ...nope! ]

[evocationary]

[ a long pause. ]

You, like - honestly, you could just stab me with your sword and that would be better than this.

[retellers]

There's not much to say. It's out there now. [ he is looking at the flowers. ] Not like you can take it back.

[evocationary]

... No, I can't.

[ she shifts. ] You didn't have to tell him the truth.

And I'm not telling him anything else, either. I asked him not to follow up and he spat in my face! So. We're not doing that again.

[retellers]

He's not the kind to let things go, and he knew enough telling him anything else wouldn't have worked. [ he shrugs, still looking out at the flowers. ] He's used to doing anything to get what he wants. [ ... ] Even asked that I stick to being mad at him instead of you.

[evocationary]

[ she shifts to lay on her side instead, wincing. ]

He told me all that, too. [ she doesn't sound happy about it. ] I mean, this'd be the point normally where I'd point fingers at him and be like, yeah! See! He's the one to be mad at!

But uh, I respect you enough to not do that. I shouldn't have said anything. I learned my lesson - he's just using me to get ahead.

[retellers]

[ these flowers... are fascinating. ] I'm not. Mad. [ he looks up at the hole in the ceiling where the sky shines through magically ] Kind of expected it. [ that is probably worse ]

[evocationary]

I didn't even tell him what it was, I just said you remembered two things.

[ she's going to keep looking at the flowers ]

I'm not doing a very good job of living up to your trust. Like, to be fair, I've never really been good at that, but uh. I was trying, this time.

[retellers]

[ okay, now the sigh is a little annoyed ] Don't worry about that so much. It's fine.

[evocationary]

[ silence, then: ]

It's important to me, though. [ she says, and then - sighs. ] Never mind. I guess it's rapid fire question time.

Can you tell me how many Wolf team members there are?

[retellers]

[ his hand flexes a little, but he continues to look at the sky ] You're only missing one.

[evocationary]

... Wow, five of us? Have we like, been bleeding team members? How many did we start with?

[retellers]

[ well, that does get him to look at her with a raised eyebrow ] What, you can't do math now?

[evocationary]

[ immediately: ] No, I'm gay, I don't do math.

[retellers]

[ ????? ] Weren't you and that guy...?

[evocationary]

Half gay. [ half gay full bi consequences ] Just tell me how many we started with! Jeeze!

[retellers]

How do you function? [ learn to math, you bi disaster. he does not say shit about his own sexuality because looks away ] Started with 7.

[evocationary]

Jeeze, was that so hard?

What was the ruling again - two people have to die from every team? Was that it? In order to save the dead. Or did I make that up.

[retellers]

[ ... he told her and she can't even remember... ] Two people have to kill, not die. [ a pause, and he tilts his head ] Or, well. Team's got to kill twice, at any rate.