suitedreams: Rupert

[battling]

don't run me over (with a horse)

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[agleam]

Assuming they're the person who designed all these rooms... Yeah, I'd probably say it falls under their idea of entertainment.

[bad]

[battling]

I hate bein' used as a damn puppet.

[agleam]

...Yeah.

[speaking of that, though, he takes a breath.]

At least - he wasn't forced into fighting her or hurting her when he didn't want to.

[battling]

There's that.

... Did you see that shadows comin' outta him at the end?

[ That wasn't a hallucination, right?]

[agleam]

[there's a moment where he tenses, slightly, before he nods.]

Yeah. [...] Did you talk to him last night? It might make a little more sense if you did.

[battling]

Yeah, made time for it. The thing that approached him? Looking for it's next host.

[agleam]

...Yeah. He said it found him at the start of the week and stayed with him even though it refused, so - I'm sure it'll do the same tomorrow, if it hasn't found someone already.

[battling]

Said it would keep someone he cared about safe.

[ A deep sigh. ]

It's forced possession.

[agleam]

Yeah. And even though he said he didn't need help with that... It just went ahead anyways.

[he takes a breath.]

So it won't even matter if someone refuses.

[battling]

These places really hate giving people agency, until the point it'll make us squirm.

[ So what's that then? Thursday murder is out of their hands, but the choice to murder is given on Sunday? Where is the consistency? ]

[agleam]

Yeah.

[he hesitates for a moment, but:]

Have you ever seen anything like it before? The - shadows, I mean.

[battling]

[ He takes a moment, run it through he head. He's seen monsters before, but not like that one in his memory. ]

Not personally. Might want to ask Miss Navigator about it. Something about darkness needing to be defeated there.

[agleam]

[he perks up immediately.]

...Who do you mean by Miss Navigator? What exactly did she tell you?

[battling]

[aggressively double checks my notes]

Red hair, glasses? Miss Navigator.

It was White [Tsurumaru], but she was in the same place as him. They were in a village, and fightin' darkness. Possessin' people there too.

[agleam]

Oh - Futaba?

[after a small pause:]

Isn't she from the one where everybody but one person died in the end...?

[battling]

That's what I've been hearin'. They did come back at the end.

[agleam]

...Right. As long as that happens, that's more important than anything else.

[battling]

[There's a laugh, but there's something tired about it]

What's a little more trauma.

[Round TWO]

[agleam]

[he snorts]

Hopefully being imprisoned back home is at least non-life threatening, even if it's really irritating. I think you've earned a break.

[battling]

It was life threatenin' for a hundred years, but it's gotten better.

[agleam]

...How was it life threatening?

[battling]

Less the prison and more bein' a Sage's wizard. Every year we'd fight the moon. Sometimes people would die doin' that.

[agleam]

...Sorry, I think I misheard you. You were fighting what?

[battling]

's the moon.

[agleam]

I... Sorry, I don't mean to downplay the threat you just described, but - why the Moon, exactly...?