♔ 16 [[BACKDATED TO NOON 01/08]]

[dat_guardian]

[The communicators will buzz on and residents will feel the Guardian's voice entering into their heads in its usual, intrusive way.]

Come to the mansion, if you so wish. I have prepared it for you. One week, from now until next Monday.

I will be there.

[The communicators will go dead after that.]

[If people travel over to the mansion, they will

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[notmycreampuffs]

[Saki ventures to the mansion shortly after breakfast, bundled up in layers and in stark contrast to the balmy weather.

Her expression is grim, unyielding - but with the telltale signs of nervousness, if one knows how to look.]

Hey. You.

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[notmycreampuffs]

I don't have a reason to tell my brother that the moon is made of cheese. But I'd still do it, you know? If I felt like it.

Just for example.

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[dat_guardian]

Ah, but unlike me, you can lie when you do not have reason to.

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[notmycreampuffs]

[So he can't lie.]

Do you bring people here, does she, or is it someone or something else? [Aw yeah, covering all the bases. /sunglasses.]

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[dat_guardian]

That is the thing and the whole of the thing.

[(troll)]

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[notmycreampuffs]

[YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER.

Saki does something not dissimilar to a facepalm. Into her hand:] Yeah, I should have expected that.

[Looking back up at him,] See, I told you. You are cryptic. [But she doesn't sound particularly put out by it.]

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[dat_guardian]

[That gets a chuckle out of him. It's an actual sound, this time, rather than just words dropping into one's head without having the decency to go by the ears. Unfortunately, when he speaks, it's back to that.]

I will admit that I am cryptic at times.

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[notmycreampuffs]

Told you.

[Smiling a bit, now. Despite her intentions, he's a tad disarming.

It drops with her next question,]

Does it bother you, what she did to him? [Him, being Adachi.]

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[dat_guardian]

[He looks at his crystal for long moments, gently turning it over in his hands.]

One aspect of the Fair Folk is their ever-changing capriciousness. They are chaotic, and the sides you see of many are but facets of the whole.

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[notmycreampuffs]

Great, but what does that mean? [Her ability to find this amusing is straining a little.]

"What happened was just part of some much bigger plan"? People died.

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[dat_guardian]

We are not talking about what Tohru Adachi did. We are speaking of my feelings on her involvement.

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[notmycreampuffs]

[Saki takes a moment to smooth out her temper. It probably wasn't the smartest subject to bring up, but.

She forces neutrality into her tone:]

Yeah, sorry.

Does it?

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[dat_guardian]

[He closes his eyes.]

What you do not understand is that the Fair Folk do not hold to arbitary standards of 'good' or 'evil'. Trying to pin their actions as either is foolish.

[His fingers close around the crystal. It pulses with a weak inner light.]

She acted within her nature. I feel relieved that she did so.

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[notmycreampuffs]

[That answer makes the skin on her arms prickle with apprehension.]

What are you the Guardian of?

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[dat_guardian]

Demeleier, of course.

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[notmycreampuffs]

If you could send us back, would you? [Was this place better before we arrived?]