twelfth pact ❖ {my apologies}

[pactum]

[It's been a while, Plane. Emil appears cautiously, not accompanied by any beasts. Or girlfriends. It's just him. He glances this way and that, as if afraid of being attacked, and then he simply sighs and flumps down where he is, his back against the wall of the old movie theatre.]

Have I changed that much? Maybe I've changed too much...

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Comments

[lamb_of_gold]

I'm rather inclined to disagree.

[pactum]

[Emil looks like he just got hit with a horrible wave of guilt. Because he did!]

Mu...

[lamb_of_gold]

Emil.

[pactum]

... I'm so sorry.

[lamb_of_gold]

You've done me no wrongs.

[pactum]

I hurt you. I hurt you. A-and then...

[lamb_of_gold]

Emil, I don't hold it against you in the slightest.

[pactum]

[He bites his bottom lip.]

Mu...

I don't want to be that person anymore, but I don't know how to make him stop... I still can't fight by myself.

[lamb_of_gold]

I don't know if I can help you, Emil. You'll need to fight him with every ounce of your will.

[pactum]

[There's so much going on in his life right now. He has to fight himself as well as Lloyd? And everything?]

But what about Marta? I still can't protect her without the... the angry me's help.

[lamb_of_gold]

Then you must learn to harness his power without becoming a slave to it.

[pactum]

I wish I knew how... Whatever it takes, I'll-- I'll do it!