AUDIENCE: LUP

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[ he will. he will even tentatively put an arm around her shoulders? he is garbage but he is doing his BEST. anyway he reads it and... frowns ] ... Yeah. Doesn't fit anyone else's writing style. [ he's aware it's kind of a toss up between him and fox, going by personalities. ] But...

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[ aw BUDDY. she doesn't seem to mind if it's tentative. she just settles in. this has always done better for her than words. ]

But?

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[ he's doing it. he is doing A Comfort ] What do you think it means? [ it's half deflection, half wanting her thoughts on it. ]

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[ look at he go ]

Oh, bud, like I know. [ she says, with a sigh. but she looks down at it. ] It just, uh - mostly it makes me feel like a lab rat, you know? Like we're being used by you guys to kill each other.

The nova thing for the Realm has to be true, I've... seen it, with my own eyes, I've seen what's happening. But hearing that maybe team leaders are just ordering hits against each other because you all keep killing each other's pawns? Like, not cool.

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So you think the hit was to another participant. Right?

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... Yes? Well, I did.

Was it actually a hit on team leader? [ ??? ]

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[ i hate that cloud strife isn't a stupid bitch. anyway, he points at the report, specifically the line that starts with "Some are h_ping" ] Forget what's happened here so far. If you read this one on its own...

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[ a pause. ]

Fuck. Okay. So we think that one of the Leaders is pulling that being in that eats the nova, but we can't... like, we can't kill the team leaders. I assume any direct hits weren't successful since all the Leaders are still alive - unless you're about to tell me one of them is being Weekend at Bernie's'd - but also, like - that's what that rule is for, right? The one where if you kill enough people on a team, the team Leader has their power stripped on Thursday.

So it was just a whole thing to try and get the Leader that's responsible vulnerable so we can kill them?

[ and then, in a just pure like, pepe silvia fashion ] Do you know why Kano is asking us to protect Goat?

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I think that hit was successful. [ wh. he looks back at the flowers ] I told you to stop thinking about anything that's happened here so far. But I guess it's more like anything you remember happening. We've done this before.

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[ ... haha ]

No, wow, fuck that. Fuck that a lot? [ ... ] We've done this before? All of us?

[ she looks back down at the note. ] So this is... from a round before? Did we fuck up the first time? Or - how many times have we done this?

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... I don't know for sure, but it's what makes the most sense. The memory I got this weekend... was what happened in a previous round. How it ended. [ he was hit back to back with two bad memories and was just very tired ]

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[ WHEEZES

carefully she's going to wrap her arm around his waist, for support. ]

What? What do you -- okay, tell me. What happened?

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[ he tenses for a second but lets her ] We tried to deal with the people who's nova got splintered differently. They lived. But everything... fell apart. It was ... bad. [ that's important. b... bad. ]

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[ she's gentle about it, at least. ]

Bad. Like the Realm exploded bad, I assume. [ ... ] Was it all of us? Or just the leaders? I - you guys told us that you gave up all your memories to delay us losing ours at the very start.

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... All of us. But I think... I think the teams were different. [ it's hard to know details off of one memory of a bad end, rip. ] I just know by the end, we knew we'd have another shot. Might be why... When I felt her splinter, I didn't even think about letting it be. Like I knew I had to make sure it was taken care of.

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[ ... ]

Was Yoshizawa splintering? [ she bites her lip. ] Whoever fucking - killed her didn't have to do it that way.

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[ oh she did the math. oops. wolf sighs. ] Whatever actually happened, it's on me. I asked.

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You asked, but I doubt you told whoever it was to saw her fucking head off, Wolf.

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It's messed up, but knowing how these things work, messing with the body is the easiest way not to get caught.

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Okay, sure, but - but sawing.

[ there had to be a better way. ] She was a good kid, she - Taako called her his friend. Do you know how rare that is? She deserved better.

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[ ... ] Yeah. She was. [ he's not going to disagree, but. hm. ] You keep saying that. The sawing thing.

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Yeah, because it was way more brutal than the other kills.

[ ... a pause. ] Whoever was - doing it didn't... really have the strength to cut off a head in one go.

[ well anyway she's not going to think about that one too hard haha ]

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[ ... uh... ] Why do you think they tried to take off the head before she was dead?

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I don't. It's still brutal. There was no reason to take the head off, it could've been literally - anything else, to mess with the body evidence.

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[ he inclines his head. oh. that makes more sense. ] Yeah. I guess. [ can you believe they've been sorta cuddling for so long. wolf looks up at the skylight. some of the bubbles are, for some goddamn reason, in the castle, and they are hanging out up there right now. ] It's done, though.