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[sictransitgloriamundi]

I do wonder why you're so set on helping the dead here when you know he happens to be one of them.

[saltwaterlungs]

Which 'he'. You've got a collection of people who fit that description in the nothing.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

No, not really. Only one... God, what stupid name did that man have. Aviary? Something close.

[saltwaterlungs]

[ That's bait. That's obviously bait. She feels the hairs on the back of her neck prickle anyway. ]

What about him.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

If you owe dead strangers nothing, you owe that one even less.

[saltwaterlungs]

What was it like, when Skulduggery was out? For those three days, when you didn't know if he was coming back?

[sictransitgloriamundi]

Much like it was for you, except I was actually aware the god I was praying to wasn't listening.

[saltwaterlungs]

You'd make such a good Catholic. You're already self righteous and think God finds you interesting enough to hate you.

If you know grief, even briefly, then you know why I serve the dead.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

Out of an impotent desperation to make reality give back what cannot be returned?

[saltwaterlungs]

You would've torn this reality apart if he hadn't come back and we both know it. Don't act like you're better than me because you care about less shit. Nothing that lives, lives alone or for itself.

tw: suicidal ideation

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[a faint smile]

If he hadn't come back, I would have ended all of this the only way it ever could end without him. [pause] It is rather the same result, though, isn't it. For the rest of you.

tw continues

[saltwaterlungs]

[ For all the similarities that both had been loosely tossing at each other over the course of this argument, this is the first one that's really stuck in her. She thinks to the Captain refusing to kill her, over and over, and there's... something that sticks in her throat about it. Darcy crushes the impulse to touch at the scar that remains over her heart. ]

He wouldn't have wanted you to. He believes in happy endings. It's annoying.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[closes eyes] I know.

... It is quite annoying.

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Pause,

Deep breath, ] Please don't die.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[sighs]

I've managed that passably well the past few thousand years. What's a few thousand more.

[saltwaterlungs]

Good.

[ Shifts how she's sitting, ] I'm still mad at you for how you handled it. But I don't like, hate you.

[ Not like she used to. ]

Before you say it, I know you don't care.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

[long pause because now he needs to think up something that isn't that.]

You'd think you, of all people, would understand the necessity of ritual.

[nailed it.]

[saltwaterlungs]

Mmf, [ He's got her there. ]

The magic nerd ritual bullshit wasn't usually left up to me. Back home I mostly did a lot of punching the shit out of things. Guess we've both got shit to learn.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

... Wait, what do I have to learn? [he knows everything so like.]

[saltwaterlungs]

[ Y'know aside from one of the most basic parts of human let alone mammalian biology- ]

The joy of doing shit specifically because people think you can't, or shouldn't be able to.

[ And other shit like 'compassion', but nothing else she can think of that he wouldn't outright mock her over. ]

[sictransitgloriamundi]

Wasn't that wedding enough? Half of them spent the entire time waiting for Rains of Castamere to start playing.

[not-not sulking.]

[saltwaterlungs]

But wasn't it fun getting to be smug afterwards? [ Smug is one of Darcy's top 3 emotions. ]

[sictransitgloriamundi]

Well, yeah, obviously.

[saltwaterlungs]

So imagine what it'll be like for things bigger than just not murdering people for a couple of hours. Weirdly, the harder you work at something, the more rewarding it is when you succeed at it.

[sictransitgloriamundi]

That doesn't even sound true.