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[abrightboy]

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Re: Private | Audio

[talesuntold]

We were poly. I'm with Fitz and Iris, and he was with Rawne. And Fitz and Tim weren't dating each other but they weren't quite not dating, either, I had them both over together all the time.

But if I had a primary partner, it was Tim. And it wasn't why Tim left me.

Re: Private | Audio

[abrightboy]

I didn’t mean to get into the middle of this. I’m glad you still have people to lean on. I’m not going to demand any action about Sweeney on your part. I know how to lie in the bed I’ve made. Okay?

[abrightboy]

Kate’s been under the influence for a long time. I don’t know that she can resist if it gets stronger.

[ruevealing]

[Literally the last thing they ever expected to hear.]

What? She's told you this? Or you've seen it yourself?

[abrightboy]

I saw it. Not long after we got here. At the circus. She used her powers to terrify a mime.

[ruevealing]

[Rue falls quiet then, staring down at their cooling tea, lost in their own thoughts.]

How can you trust me then? I have used my magic to save someone before, but it still fed them in the end. What if I fall as well? I have resisted as much as I can, I do not feel as if I should ever be tempted, but if Kate and John are susceptible...

[abrightboy]

To save someone. To save someone, Rue.

[ruevealing]

But does it matter if the result is the same? It still opens me up to being influenced, doesn't it?

[abrightboy]

The problem is everyone is vulnerable to it.

[ruevealing]

[They deflate a little across from him, sighing.]

Of course. I do not mean to sound quarrelsome. I'm only struggling with all of this. These people have been my friends, I have a hard time believing they would allow themselves to be taken over. But that's the whole point, is we are all vulnerable.

Is this why you invited me over? To talk over who we felt we could trust?

[abrightboy]

No. I asked you over because my family moved away and I’m lonely.

[ruevealing]

I can relate to that feeling too well right now.

[abrightboy]

Stay a bit? We don’t have to talk about ADI if you don’t want to.

[ruevealing]

[They reach across the table, to rest a paw over his hand.]

You don't even need to ask, my friend. Of course. Your company is always a treat, especially now.

Re: Spam

[stressingwitchface]

Kindness gets you nowhere in the Boiling Isles except dead.

[betacuck]

thank you

raylan's fucked up and i'm worried about him

[abrightboy]

What do you mean ‘fucked up’? What happened to him?

Re: Spam

[abrightboy]

We’re not in the Boiling Isles and you don’t have to go back there.

Re: Spam

[stressingwitchface]

It's my home, you cretin! You think I want to be around all you humans, without my magic, eating terrible unfamiliar foods and having everything be out of reach?

[conning]

Neal smiles at that image, the thought of Malcolm's pastel drawing displayed there. At least he'll get to see it next time he visits. If Malcolm wants him in that space.

He turns a brush over in his fingers, not really noticing that he and Malcolm are fidgeting in the same way. "Yeah. Yeah, that's fine."

He hasn't talked to Kiryu yet. He's been avoiding it. Neal picks at an imaginary bit of paint stuck to the brush. "I haven't... read that ADHD book yet. I haven't really..."

He hasn't really wrapped his head around the idea of him having an alphabet-based anything.

Re: Spam

[abrightboy]

You have options. Stay long enough to get a deal and fix your home. Get your magic back when you graduate and choose someone in the multiverse that's kind of like your home. Get your magic back when you graduate and travel around. What would your ideal outcome look like?

Re: Spam

[stressingwitchface]

Get my magic back now, use it to graduate faster, return home to the Boiling Isles and raze my enemies to the ground, leaving a power vacuum ripe for me to take over.

[abrightboy]

"You don't have to," Malcolm says quickly. "I'm not a clinician. I just. Observed some behaviours and I was going to talk to you about it after I did some research and then... all this happened so that didn't... that conversation didn't go the way I imagined it. But. Um. Anyway, it's there if you want to look into it. I'm. I'm not an expert."

Re: Spam

[abrightboy]

How will having your magic back make you graduate faster?

[abrightboy]

How's Hobb doing?