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[stepford_smiles]

[The feed cuts on to an immediate close-up of Mami, sobbing and in hysterics. She pulls back after a moment, in an nondescript area of the ruined city, her face flushed as she struggles to talk through thick and cloying tears.]We can't have lives here. We're not allowed. We'll become the monsters that we swore to fight, and the only way to stop

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[Were Yuma not bound and gagged, she'd probably be screaming. Instead, all everyone who wanders by will hear is muffled gasps and sobs as she tries to kick and flail around.]

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[fallenapple]

[Kyoko, on the other hand, is enraged. How dare she trap her like this, take away her power and her freedom. How dare she even think about touching Yuma, and how dare she think about killing her.]

[Like hell was she going to get killed. Her screams are of frustration as she bites and tears at the ribbon, shaking her entire body about.]

[She's even too angry to register what Mami said about what they would become. Her rage has blinded her.]

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[Mami can see the fear on Yuma's face, the rage on Kyoko's, but it does nothing but fuel her own grief, her own panic.]

Neither of you understand. If you did, you'd be standing right here, ready to do the same thing that I'm about to do.

[But she's shaking, crying. It's so hard to do.]

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[proverbed]

[Iroh has been scouring the city, trying to find the perfect place to set up a tea shop. Not that there's much point to it, but it gives him something productive to do with his days. Most of the areas he's checked out have been the fairly lived in ones, but now he makes his way through the more remote areas, just in case there's a promising spot.

He stops suddenly. Is that - someone is crying. Crying and screaming, though he can't yet make out the words.

He runs towards the voice.]

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[stepford_smiles]

[Mami whirls when Iroh comes crashing onto the scene, the same rifle she'd been holding in the video pointed at him. Her eyes are wide, panicked.]

Stay back!

[She chokes out over the tears.]

This doesn't concern you!

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[proverbed]

[Iroh stops, quickly holding up his hands in apparent surrender. While he's never seen a weapon quite like that before...it's clearly a weapon.

He takes note of the two young women tied up by the wall.]

It seems I've walked into the middle of an argument.

[To put it lightly]

[stepford_smiles]

This is just something that has to be done.

[Shaking, she takes a step back, before jerking her arm to the side and pointing the rifle at the gem on Kyoko's chest.]

Please don't interfere.

[NOT HERE]

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[stepford_smiles]

[MAMI-SAN WILL SAVE YOU FROM HER]

[hyuugahime]

Tomoe-san, what are you doing?!

[stepford_smiles]

Saving all of you.

[hyuugahime]

Let them go. Please.

A-At least, can I come and talk it out with you? I-I don't know much about your world. I-I'd like you to explain exactly ... why you need to do this.

[stepford_smiles]

Sorry.

[Mami gives her a choked smile.]

It's too late.

[And she ends the feed.]

[ff_red_turk]

It won't solve anything, kid.

[stepford_smiles]

You don't know that.

[ff_red_turk]

I do. I've been there.

[stepford_smiles]

You're not a puella magi. You couldn't understand.

[Click.]