♥ Video - Alive Again

[gentle_cruelty]

[Irial is leaning against a tree by Lake Meridian, smoking, This is not a new sight. But the faery was supposed to be dead, a fact he is still trying to reconcile. He is alive, again. His house is empty. Niall is gone. There are so many video calls about events he doesn't even remember.

[And so he is awake early, trying to think, staring at the

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[nolessthanseven]

[Isabelle wants to think he's talking to her. But if he were doing that, he'd have just called her. But no, she's probably even more angry at him for making her think he was dead.

[Upon realising the call is live - a twitch of the thumb inadvertently calling him up - she promptly ends it, offering perhaps five seconds of her lovely scowl.]

[Video] Returns call

[gentle_cruelty]

[This face]

[Video] Displeased Shadowhunter is displeased.

[nolessthanseven]

[if she wanted to talk to you, she'd have talked the first time around, man.] I'm not sure you really have the right to be giving me that face, Irial.

[Video]

[gentle_cruelty]

[Lowers his hand] Are you angry with me, Isabelle?

[Video]

[nolessthanseven]

[a very bland stare. A swallow, and finally she replies, still staring.] Yeah.

Do you faeries seriously only ever think of yourselves?

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[gentle_cruelty]

Tell me.

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[nolessthanseven]

[a low sigh, exasperated. She opens her mouth to reply, promptly closing it again. It takes a moment, a backwards glance in the direction of Simon's now-empty bedroom.] You died.

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[gentle_cruelty]

Yes.

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[nolessthanseven]

You know how I found that out?

I found out because it was broadcast.

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[gentle_cruelty]

[Stares. For a while] Which do you fault me for?

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[nolessthanseven]

[stares right back.]

I'm not having this conversation. It's not going to happen, Irial. [a pause.] You know my brother hates your guts?

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[gentle_cruelty]

Do you?

[Video]

[nolessthanseven]

...do I what?

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[gentle_cruelty]

Do you hate me, Isabelle?

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[nolessthanseven]

[another stare. She isn't fae; she can lie. But figuring out what exactly would be a lie is the tricky part.]

I don't know.

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[gentle_cruelty]

That's a start. [Irial replied, finally returning his attention to his smoldering cigarette. Takes a greedy pull off it, exhaling to one side]

You know where to find me.