Ezekiel 16:39

[trickster_mk2]

[Private audio message to Elizabeth]

I just thought I should let you know, because you probably already do, that I took some of the things I left from Hatfield already. But if there is anything that I've forgotten, then I've got a place that you can send things on to. If you wanted to. You don't have to. I mean, it'd be nice.

[He's rambling, he

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[trickster_mk2]

I took the books. I just... didn't want... [Why is he still talking? She's clearly burnt or thrown away anything he'd left and not rescued. He's not seen her with the tigers, not that he's been scouring the network for any trace of her. He knew she'd kept them, he'd seen them when he'd gone to Hatfield in the middle of the night but... but did she even love them any more? He couldn't bring himself to ask, no now he couldn't feel them anymore. That link was severed, like all the others.]

I was thinking they might. I mean, it can't hurt business, can it? Having a school so close. And I thought that way... [He stops. She's probably made it very, very clear over the last few conversations that she doesn't want to know. But he's by nature someone who doesn't like the word no, and so maybe that's why he keeps pushing.

Maybe that's why he's not taken off the ring.]

I thought maybe on high-days and holidays I might send some over for the teachers too.

[He means her. Of course he means her, she probably knows it. There's not really anyone

[trickster_mk2]

[His shoulders droop again. Why is it that he keeps saying things? He should shut his mouth while he has the chance,But he's never been able to do that, his tongue runs away from him. That was how he was made and how he will always be.]

I owe your mother an apology. And you a great debt. I'll repay all, when I am able.

[risegloriana]

Don't. Don't say anything to her. She will question it, and then everything else. I -- I am not ready to have that conversation with her. I never shall be. So if you have any fondness left for me, just... just let this whole argument die and that be the end of it.

[her hands were shaking all over again, and she curled them into fists.] I don't want your repayment. I just want the promise that there will be no more foulness. No more cruelty between us. We can be peaceable, if only for everyone else's sakes.

[trickster_mk2]

I was not about to seek her company or attempt to speak to her. I think I've forsaken that right.

My Lady Queen, Lizzie. I shall have all the fondness for you that I ever did. And you know I will make you that promise, and every other promise you would ask of me.

And I will not darken your door, less my Father will it or you demand it.

[And then the feed goes black.]