107. [voice, brief video]
[At first, there's just... quiet, and the clicky sound of someone walking - metal on stone.]
[After a moment, though, Priscilla starts talking, and her voice is harder now, despite its perpetually girlish sound.]In the past few weeks, I've learned a great many things. ...perhaps some of them were things I shouldn't have learned. But you can't ( Read more... )
[After a moment, though, Priscilla starts talking, and her voice is harder now, despite its perpetually girlish sound.]In the past few weeks, I've learned a great many things. ...perhaps some of them were things I shouldn't have learned. But you can't ( Read more... )
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[RATHER TO THE POINT, THERE.]
I hope that won't be... awkward.
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No. In fact, I'd like to relinquish my position as your successor.
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If that's what you really want. Although it's a rather extreme move over hedgehogging.
[...sure that made sense.]
Or... porcupining?
Maybe a turtle.
[...yeah.]
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[ Suddenly has to try really hard not to laugh. ]
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[...she blinks.]
...some other kind of... small animal defense mechanism!
[........]
It's a very suitable metaphor.
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[ He is. ]
Look, if I'm going to be completely useless every time you're no longer able to do your job, then obviously I have no right to the position.
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You weren't useless. You just... made me angry. ...and hurt me.
But you kept things going when I couldn't. Who would do it, if not you?
Who else could I even trust with something like that?
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I'm not going to claim it wasn't stupid. Or a mistake. But.
[she sighs.]
I fell in love with a mass-murdering cannibal and let him live with me.
In the headquarters.
Which he then destroyed because he was bored.
...and I've been seeing him again. I mean, even before everything that happened. I was already seeing him again.
That wasn't meant to be a confession. I just mean... everyone has problems.
And everyone makes mistakes.
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[She rubs her face.]
...my head is clearer when I'm not living in the ruins.
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Are you... all right, though? Physically, that is. I didn't even think to ask.
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I'm... shaky, but mostly all right. I just. I need to work again. I need... something to focus on.
Oh, but that's not physical. Physically I'm--
--what I was.
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I wasn't really going to accept it, anyway.
...are you all right?
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