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sternefacade

[Action, forward dated to after the shadow event]

Feb 18, 2011 19:53

[He was in trouble. He knew it. There was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't run, he couldn't hide, and he could never disobey ( Read more... )

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implantsgrace February 19 2011, 01:02:27 UTC

[It took a while, longer than she'd admit, to get out of the hospital but. She called him, drawing him to a small section of Frontier that once housed her extra body.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 06:45:38 UTC

That's better.

[She's moving on...to the delicate work. Subtle. Minute.]

The reasoning your Shadow did what it did...was around Ranka, wasn't it? You didn't want anyone else to have her.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 06:48:35 UTC

[A flash of confusion crosses his blank face as he considers that.

Was it? He didn't... couldn't remember. But... it had something to do with Ranka, yes.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 06:57:11 UTC

[Grace smiles, gently. Forgivingly. It wasn't his fault he was an incestuous freak. Ranshe... Ranshe would be rolling in her grave, had she been buried.]

You said you loved her. You remember that. How you told me all about it.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 06:59:51 UTC

[He... yes he remembers that. There was... something else in that conversation too though, wasn't there?

But he couldn't remember.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:10:20 UTC

How could you desire her that badly. She's your charge, Brera.

[Inwardly, she's smiling. Ranshe surely would be rolling over now.]

sternefacade February 19 2011, 07:13:48 UTC

[He's not even sure he can understand what that would mean. Desiring somebody. He... remembers something of what his shadow felt, but the emotions were almost entirely foreign to him.

He remembers feeling... something different about Ranka, though.

But he doesn't know what it really was. Or what it meant. And he doesn't understand it.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:18:50 UTC

Whatever you think you felt, whatever you think you remember, it doesn't matter.

I know how it happened. Do you really want to disobey me again?

[Her eyes close, she rubs at her forehead.]

i'm not sure you'd live through that.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 07:22:30 UTC

[Her question breaks him out of his confusion. Does he want to disobey her again?]

No.

[There may be the softest trace of bitterness there. It's not like he can disobey her again anyway.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:24:49 UTC

Ah, don't be bitter, Brera-kun.

[Her tone is soft, if it not were for the situation it might have been considered comforting.] This is for your own good.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 07:27:07 UTC

[He manages to look at her for a moment before lowering his gaze back to the floor.]

As you say.

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:36:32 UTC

[More. He could forget but, that's not good enough. That's not what he deserves. He deserves more.]

You're quite a catch, you know. [She eyes a chair, a humble desk chair, in the corner.] Take a seat.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 07:38:10 UTC

[He follows her gaze and obeys, walking over to the chair and sitting in it without ceremony.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:43:59 UTC

[She walks around him, sizing him up once again.] Bite your tongue; make it bleed.

sternefacade February 19 2011, 07:45:28 UTC

[He does so. He doesn't even wince at the pain, he's felt worse.]

implantsgrace February 19 2011, 07:53:01 UTC

Again.

[The pain alone is nothing.]

You know, even though you want her by your side, Brera? Ranka doesn't feel the same. She doesn't trust you.

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