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[lumenrelegandus]

[Clearly he's had the same thought.

Many such.]

[private to Shirley, Arthur, Merlin, Hughes, Trevor, Byakuya, Hermione, Lust]Paralysis through overanalysis is no alibi

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[wotchesyou]

I don't want your soul destroyed Remus.

[private]

[lumenrelegandus]

[But I lose part of mine with every soul she destroys.

About three reasons (at least) not to say that aloud. But-

He didn't say it about four times in the above post. He can say it to her now.]

I'm sorry.

I love you.

[he turns off his forge.

But not before it picks up a background sound that clearly identifies he's still at Clinic. Which means he's got a three-minute walk past the wards before he can disapparate to anywhere else.]

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[wotchesyou]

Remus... No.

[ This is not what she wants. ]

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[wotchesyou]

[ She recognizes where he is. Tonks apparates outside of the wards of the Clinic. She's wearing a black cloak over black clothes. Tonks moves as a shadow.

Remus, you will not stop her. You will not do this. This is for her alone but it's alright. You won't have to stand willingly by. ]

Remus!

[ She is moving with purpose. Of course she can make it inside of the wards before he can leave them. ]

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[sonvisage]

And what good is your soul when you're dead?

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[lumenrelegandus]

[this conversation will happen on the move and has a two and a half minute deadline; 'cause that's when he'll reach the limit of the wards.]

Some would argue that's when it's most important.

[video]

[sonvisage]

Some people would argue that going alone is a fool's errand.

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[lumenrelegandus]

Attempting to storm en force seems equally foolish. For lack of clearer wisdom I choose minimising agents at risk.

I'm not going to try and attack. I just need to try and get real knowledge of what might be done.

Io, I have to believe that doing nothing is itself criminal. …Rather, I can't choose to shake that belief. If nothing can change either way, I would rather at least make the effort. I am less myself for not making it.

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[popparazzi]

[Okay, guys, you all really need to stop putting yourselves in unnecessary danger. It's really starting to grate on his nerves. He likes his friends alive, dangit (let's forget the fact that he's already died here once).]

Are you sure that's wise?

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[lumenrelegandus]

What is "that", my friend? My initial intention is reconnaissance only. Try to get my own idea of the situation rather than trust in these forges. She knows we're watching those.

When I report back, plans can be formed around who is able and willing to join me. I don't wish to rally anyone. That doesn't mean I'm going to be entirely stupid about this.

It's just that no one appears to be doing anything about this. Is that wise? Or have we fallen victim to the remarkable human ability to get used to; to accept just about anything? At all costs we can not let ourselves become comfortable with certain things.

[Believe me, he wishes as much as anyone else that he could tell the difference between making good arguments because they're true and making them just because he can, as a verbal exercise, regardless of the prevailing circumstance.]

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[popparazzi]

[Now you're starting to sound like Roy to him. He's not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.]

I know you're not.

[There's a pause as he contemplates the last thing Lupin said.]

I think... we need to come up with some way to keep this circle from repeating. Again.

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[lumenrelegandus]

That's certainly the crux.

The unlikely ideal would be... rehabilitation. My experience thus far suggests that is not a choice she's capable of making on her own. I don't know if... I don't know how it would be accomplished. Or the possibilities are about as unpalatable as the killing or imprisonment.

Even so, death is impermanent, imprisonment has proved repeatedly ineffectual, trying to focus her aggression on any individual backfires... Definitely a problem.

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[sakurabito]

I cannot allow it.

[ Because he has to try and convince you not to do something stupid. Because that woman is his responsibility. ]

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[lumenrelegandus]

I am eager to entertain alternatives. Any and all, barring only the one I currently perceive to be the case. That for lack of clear-cut options we are pursuing none. Observation is itself impact. Perhaps I can try to make things clearer.

If I am wrong, if things are being done behind the scenes, the surest way to stop me is to inform me of such and I will with all my being help. It's true my personal investment is potentially problematic but I believe that I am more useful in this cause than not-enough so that standing aside seems unacceptable.

[he must have been subliminally picking up on something afoot, but unloading it at Byakuya is misdirected.]

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[sakurabito]

This is the responsibility of the Police. If you are to go, allow me to send someone. Myself, if need be.

[ He just can't let you go in alone. This is his fault for not binding the witch himself. ]

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[lumenrelegandus]

I'm seeing from other responses how misleading my fervor was. My current intent is only reconnaissance. If you think it wisest to accompany me you alone would be welcome… but perhaps I should attempt to narrow the location to a district and report back before closer-proximity work is attempted?

Whatever the case, she has succeeded in making us all work so hard to restrain our own worst instincts, and attempt to protect one another from giving into their own, we have been diverted from working on the problem together and rationally. Her brand of terrorism makes it hard to trust ourselves and one another. Let's change that.

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[thenobledie]

[ didn't she tell you to stop being an idiot, lupin... ]

The word of a fool is just as worthless.

video;

[lumenrelegandus]

[There are times when that's nothing more than an insult.]

Definitions, perspective, and opinions are a starting place not an end. If she has paralyzed us to inaction, the battle becomes to fight inaction itself. Even with foolishness. Otherwise become accomplices.

[You promised not to exclude him. If he's to take you at your word, he must assume nothing is being done or planned. That's what he's trying to change.

Sirius once said only Remus could weaponise logic.]

I'll see you later, Shirley.

video; private!

[thenobledie]

There are forces at work. Trust us.

[ the problem with that promise is it can be overridden by another promise, and shirley did so herself. so she hasn't excluded him, actively, but of course, she hasn't told him a damn thing. admittedly, she has left it open for tonks's action, and it was only very recently that took off. it's such a lazy plan, she doesn't even consider it one for him to be excluded from, anyway.

specificity! ]

video; private!

[lumenrelegandus]

[unfortunately, he's already turned his forge off.]

[ooc: Solely because his reaction to that would be to stop dead in his tracks and demand an explanation, and while that would be an awesome convo to have, it would cause a paradox with the Tonks thread above! Curses!! :-) Maybe it can still happen after he's been de-paralyzed?]