AUDIENCE: SWANS

[retellers]

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[retellers]

You did! And I am. So glad it worked out. [ watching someone burn alive would've been, uh, bad. ]

[uhhhmagic]

Yeah, uh. Ain't nobody want to see that.

[Gee whiz. Waving a hand, casually. Then he.

Then he just sits down on the floor because he's still dying a bit.]

Guess the problem with knowing how the trick works means that, um, you can't really put the rabbit back in the hat though.

[retellers]

Right. If you guys expect it to happen, it might ... negate the effect. [ also she has like, so many cushions and a sort of couch so she's going to teleport taako casually to one of those. all of y'all sit down. ]

[uhhhmagic]

Oh-- Could engineer a memory wipe! That way I'll never have known. I'll just think about it lots tonight and then it'll probably be gone tomorrow.

[I dont think that's how this works.]

[retellers]

I... don't think that's how it works.

[uhhhmagic]

[Puffing his cheeks out in a pout.]

It totally could be.

[no]

Anyway, no one thinks I know shit and that I'm very stupid, so it'll probably be fine.

[horologia]

[ idly, from the window: ]

They do think you're pretty, though. Except for the griffin.

[retellers]

You're not stupid. [ immediate? but anyway ] ... You're sure about volunteering?

[uhhhmagic]

Uh, well, no? I mean. I wouldn't be doing it out of a self of self-righteous justice or whatever. Don't get me wrong on that. And I can't-- leave Lup. I promised that.

But I have all my friggin' limbs and I'm not 12 years old, so I don't see another path that makes any sense. So I guess we're doing this thing.

[reconnective]

[a pillow comes sailing from swan's bed to bean taako in the head. rude.]

[uhhhmagic]

[HE YELPS

HE HAS 2HP]

[reconnective]

Speak for yourself! [they can help!!!]

[uhhhmagic]

Look, I--

[He huffs.]

I am speaking for myself. I'm a piece of shit in many regards and I'm not gonna claim otherwise, but I'm not gonna be a guy who sits on his hands while a child goes out and has to kill someone for me! I'm not! I won't be that guy.

[reconnective]

Yeah, and if something happens to you Lup's gonna lose her mind. You're not doing this by yourself.

[horologia]

... Excuse me?

Were our previous discussions on the matter just for show?

[ 12??? ]

[uhhhmagic]

Froooom what I remember, this has been my position on this the whole time, compadre.

[horologia]

As far as I can recall, you said you'd help- not that you'd make the decision for us before we even starting making any plans.

[uhhhmagic]

It's called respecting your elders.

[NOT AGAIN.]

[horologia]

I don't believe that was a trait I possessed particularly strongly before this, so I'm hardly about to start doing so now.

[ no. ]

[supremity]

[ Raising his solo hand - don't fucking throw things at him he's one-armed - to pipe up from his seat. ]

Despite the fact I'm down a limb, I'm still more than capable of doing this. Again, I'll just need help, if you'd rather be an accomplice than the one doing the actual dirty work.

[uhhhmagic]

We can go in 2's, right?

[He doesn't object to this.]

[retellers]

[ watching this back and forth by looking between all of them like it's a tennis match, but: ] ... Yeah. It's probably better if two of you work together.

[supremity]

[ Sora and Homura: actively protesting
Taako and Hua Cheng: the pact is sealed ]

Then I'm fine with that arrangement.

[uhhhmagic]

We . . . probably have to get caught, right?

For the nova.

[supremity]

... maybe. It depends on the kills.

Fox, for sure, I know is going to be in the running with us. But I don't know who's going to do it this week, because they don't talk to each other, apparently.