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[This is the Chaos Shrine. The old, derelict Chaos Shrine which looks like it hasn't seen a good cleaning in a couple thousand of years. And in the middle of it is one Lufene, looking bored and sulky. Oddly enough there's a lot of expensive decor in her vicinity. Is some of it various auction goods that mysteriously quit being up for bid? Either

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So you do have someone trading information to you. [Slight frown, but she's not hostile yet.] Lufene, what are you planning?

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Hmm? Who are... ah.

[That pretty thing that blew her off in the Wind Shrine. Lufene yawns and tosses her hair over her shoulder.]

Now why would I tell you that now when you didn't wish to listen the first time?

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[Lilisette purses her lips for a moment before she visibly backs down.]

I apologize. I couldn't speak with you properly the first time, but I'd like to do so now. You were trying to tell us something, were you not?

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Yes yes, but those hot heads always pick a fight. It's very tiresome, come to pay a social call and the only greeting you get is a sword leveled at you.

That ship has long sailed. Everyone chose the hard way to going about things.

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Sometimes people have to learn the hard way. But it was kind of you to try. If they realized, they'd likely think so as well.

If there's something now that you'd like to say, I'll listen. I'll even meet you without my blades. A neutral conversation--a meeting of like minds--to make up for that day.

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Oh really?

[Lufene arches an eyebrow at the dancer.]

Well I'm bored, so why not?

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[Lilisette has absolutely no self-preservation, so she's actually pleased about this.]

I can travel where I'm needed. Just tell me where and I'll be there.

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[Without the least bit of warning, Lufene teleports Lilisette right into her little chamber in the shrine. She's lounging in a chair, her tail lazily flicking in the air. One might wonder why she bothers using dragons to travel when she has the ability to move anyone she wants from anywhere in the world.]

You can have a seat.

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[It happens so quickly Lilisette can't even find the breath to yelp, and she looks around her for a moment with wide eyes. This is likely very, very bad, but there's nothing to be done about it now. It's too late... So she does as she's instructed and has a seat off to the side.]

You have some very nice items lying about. You're a collector of fine arts?

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I am. You should have seen the lovely ones I left behind.

[You know, before she utterly destroyed Terra with the Warring Triad in her collection. Lufene sighs dramatically, effecting a quaint little pout.]

No one appreciates a thing of beauty anymore.

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[She really should have waited until she had the bracelet Rishfee was making for her. Being around Lufene was nearly like being around Odin himself.]

And the art is all you have here? What about... Are you always alone here?

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More or less, unless you count that old nag. Which I don't. He's very dull.

[Lufene gets up, tracing a finger over the titles of her rather expansive collection of books.]

I was created to destroy after all. I'm pleased to be free of babysitting the Genome tanks.

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You were created to destroy? Don't you have a say in the matter? No matter what you're supposed to do, this life is your own.

[So Lili might be getting a little more passionate than she intended, but she wanted to believe that one's life was one's own, no matter what fate they were supposed to have.]

You brought me here using your magic. Let's escape from here. Others will come to understand you in time!

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I have all the choice in the world, I don't care what that old idiot thinks. I'll do what I want when I want.

[She giggles softly then begins examining her nails.]

Make no mistake, I enjoy eliminating boring mortals. Once in a while one seems promising, but I'm always disappointed.

[She shrugs a bare shoulder and then plops dramatically into one of her plush seats.]

As far as leaving? I'd rather not. I've no interest in those sillies nor they in me. But watching them try to take Garland on should break the monotony nicely.

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[Lilisette's brows knit just slightly. It's hard to tell with this woman just what's a front and what's truth, but in the end Lili has to trust her own instincts. She has to trust in that part of herself that can identify with Lufene a bit.]

In my life, every time I've felt alone I've countered it by just getting myself into more trouble. It made people care.

[She shifts her weight a bit. She's well aware of her situation now, but she's not one to stand down because she might get hurt.]

You say you're bored and this is all monotonous, but aren't you lonely? There's not enough art in the world to fill some voids. Eventually even killing others will grow dissatisfying, will it not?

And... what does Garland plan to do with you? We need not be enemies just because he dictates it.

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[Lufene's eyes narrow to thin slits. How in the world did this slip of a girl manage to understand a little too much? The genome refuses to acknowledge any of that uncomfortable discussion and pooh-poohs it away with an impatient fling of her hand.]

Do you know what he's about? Why you're here? He needs everyone dead so he can replace Gaia's souls with those of Terra.

I'm his Angel of Death.