—Heh. Yeah, I guess... making any of us look like angels is a little twisted. [ Still with the apologetic smile. ] But you really do look nice, for what it's worth.
Well, I'm not. I'm - they call them Sin Eaters, these creatures. Monsters, by any other name. A plague upon the world they come from, bringing nothing but suffering, and death--
They struck down a friend of mine. They made her one of them, and I could do nothing - naught but end her suffering. And now, this game...
[ —Monster twigs something in the back of his head, but it's gone before Lupine can really... get at it. He knows his world has monsters on it, too... ] [ And everything else she's saying, hell. ]
[And yet it doesn't. She just feels all the more helpless, all the more dismayed, angrier. That their captors would take something like this, and turn it into a - a fancy-dress costume, for a masquerade - it's sickening.]
So no, not exactly the stuff of fun and games.
[Her voice is tighter than she might like. Angry. Upset.]
But if playing them is what it takes to take it away, then I suppose I have no choice.
[She's absolutely certain the producers had something quite other in mind when they came up with this task, but do we care what they might have intended? No, we do not.]
... oh, so they really can be anything at all? Then I order you to touch your nose.
[ A prayer, huh? ...After a moment, he realizes he was expecting to have some sort of reaction to the idea, but he really just — doesn't. If she wants to, he supposes. ] [ Lupine gives her a half-smile. ]
[She clasps her hands together, for a preliminary.
[Wonders exactly what belief system is even in operation here. What gods Lupine prays to. If the Twelve could even hear her from here.]
Dear... whichever deity might still be disposed to look upon me kindly. I pray that Lupine will be delivered from this place and this system, and can return to wherever he best feels he belongs.
[ —That— ] [ His eyes widen a fraction, and he starts to say something (it probably would've been thank you), but that was a bingo for him, and mid-sentence he just..... changes. ]
[ No longer a were, now a nymph, and after a beat he digs his card out to find the new one. His gaze lifts up to meet hers, eyes now very silver, and his lips quirk. ]
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[Angels.
[That's what this is.]
And yet, I can't help but feel that there's slightly more to it, at least where my brother and I are concerned.
Not that the distinction is particularly important, save to myself.
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...Is it okay if I ask anyway?
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[Exhales.]
If you're sure I won't be burdening you unnecessarily? There's... rather a lot of context.
[Very little of it is pleasant.]
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I'm sure. Go for it.
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[She closes her eyes.]
Well, I'm not. I'm - they call them Sin Eaters, these creatures. Monsters, by any other name. A plague upon the world they come from, bringing nothing but suffering, and death--
They struck down a friend of mine. They made her one of them, and I could do nothing - naught but end her suffering. And now, this game...
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...Ali, that's — wow. I'm... sorry.
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[And yet it doesn't. She just feels all the more helpless, all the more dismayed, angrier. That their captors would take something like this, and turn it into a - a fancy-dress costume, for a masquerade - it's sickening.]
So no, not exactly the stuff of fun and games.
[Her voice is tighter than she might like. Angry. Upset.]
But if playing them is what it takes to take it away, then I suppose I have no choice.
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Any I can help you hit?
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[Having something else to think about can only be a good thing, right now.
[She holds out the card.]
Some of them are straightforward enough.
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[ Eyes moving down the card and.......... pausing, because some of them really aren't. Tinylipquirk. You get it, Ali. ]
This one, I've basically got the opposite on my card.
[ Tapping 'give someone three orders'. ]
So, that'd work?
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[Loophole abuse, don't you love it.]
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Granted.
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... oh, so they really can be anything at all? Then I order you to touch your nose.
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[ Fingertip tap to his nose. ]
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Hmm, and for order number three...
I know. I order you to let me say a prayer for you. That way I can clear another task.
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Go for it.
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I wouldn't normally ask for something like this, but... well, I'm sure you understand how it is.
[Context being what it is.]
All right, um...
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[Wonders exactly what belief system is even in operation here. What gods Lupine prays to. If the Twelve could even hear her from here.]
Dear... whichever deity might still be disposed to look upon me kindly. I pray that Lupine will be delivered from this place and this system, and can return to wherever he best feels he belongs.
1/2
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...Thanks.