AUDIENCE: SWANS

[retellers]

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[reconnective]

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

[uhhhmagic]

And if anything happens to you, Lup's gonna lose her shit, especially if it's my fucking fault! She'll have to--

[He buries his face in his hands, then pushes them into his hair.]

Look, I've died before. I'm not afraid of it.

[reconnective]

I have too, and neither am I. [but...he frowns softly as he thinks.]

...if I don't do this, I'm making up for it with everything I can. Whatever I have, it's yours to use.

[uhhhmagic]

Well that only seems fair . . .

[not even gonna try and be polite about it, huh?]

[reconnective]

[he narrows his eyes.]

Wear the armor, Taako. It should protect you long enough if you're going with Hua Cheng. [because he can hear the other conversations here.]

[supremity]

It's not that either of us thinks that you can't do it, Sora. Yuuri, either. You're both more than capable, and have proved it, in every way.

But for you, you've done so much already to help the team, and it's not a position I'm willing to risk.

[reconnective]

...it doesn't feel like I've done much to help when you guys are the ones actually risking your lives. [but...fair.]

Maybe we'll get lucky somehow.

[supremity]

I've still got some of my luck in place, if I've gotten through what I have so far. [ dryly ] Ideally that'll carry us to the end.

[reconnective]

Let's just hope it doesn't run out before we need it to.

[horologia]

I think, that if we keep talking about it, we'll find that none of us are afraid to die. For various reasons.

But there's a simple solution to harming Lup-san if things go wrong: neither of you become involved.

[reconnective]

...you're gonna have a harder time convincing Taako and Hua Cheng. [a half-smile.]

[horologia]

Oh, I know entirely too well how tedious it is to argue with those who won't lightly change their minds.

But I figured I'd at least make the effort.