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[Filtered to anyone who cares about the whole Legato debacle]
The outpost in the dead zone is still intact, just saying, and I will remind everyone in general that the doors do lock. We could just stick Legato out there for a while and make sure he didn't get back into the castle zone. No powers, no forcing townspeople to kill each other and themselves. Of course the risk to him would be vengeance-seekers and he might attempt suicide, but it's a possibility.
[And of course, if Legato attempts suicide, it might be doing them all a favor.]
The outpost in the dead zone is still intact, just saying, and I will remind everyone in general that the doors do lock. We could just stick Legato out there for a while and make sure he didn't get back into the castle zone. No powers, no forcing townspeople to kill each other and themselves. Of course the risk to him would be vengeance-seekers and he might attempt suicide, but it's a possibility.
[And of course, if Legato attempts suicide, it might be doing them all a favor.]
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1/2 tl..... dr................ forever
It seems you were hard of hearing over the journal, so I thought you might do better listening very carefully face to face. [yes, he's condescending; it's a rare sort of irritation she's pricked and probably the first time she's seen him this way... it doesn't happen often.] You can hear me now, can't you? I imagine the answer is yes, so please do your best to listen.
Your plans for Legato are not my concern. You could have propose we hang him from his ankles in the lobby and it still would not be the reason I'm here at all. You're a smart girl, so stop being petulant and stubborn and listen.
I know you're angry. You're hurt, and angry, and you don't know what to do with it or yourself. Your efforts to put yourself into the plans for his captivity are more an attempt to acquire the sense of security Legato and people like him stole from you. I understand, Rin -- it's probably the same reason you decided to childishly taunt Zelman, as well. Right? You don't want to feel helpless so you lash out in hopes of making it better, to prove you're strong and unafraid. That it's okay.
But what are you going to do when you spit in the monster's eye, and the monster bites you back? What are you going to do when one of these days, you pick the wrong chord to strike and the prisoner you decided to carelessly badmouth is free and gunning for you? What will you rationalize if the next time you're kidnapped or hurt, you wake up two weeks later instead of outside the clinic or released when everything comes to a head?
What will you say to me then, Rin? Will you tell me it was all about doing what no one else would? Will that make it better? Will it have been worth it at all...?
Do you have so little faith in the people who care for you, that you think we would let Legato roam free...? Do you really believe I would ever let the people who did such horrible things get so much as a chance at ever doing anything like that again...?
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Do you have so little faith in the people in those memories you'd so carelessly throw away?
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Then what's your plan? What are you planning on doing with him, hm?
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he straightens, slowly, his hands falling away from her shoulders.]
...After everything... is that all you have to say to me, Rin?
Is that all that matters to you now?
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[he watches her a moment, a soft furrow at his brow.]
This isn't about Legato or... the plan. [are you listening to him at all, Rin? :(]
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... That's all this is about. [Everything she said here.] What's best to do with Legato, when there's been nothing done for months...
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...Why can't you look beyond it? You can't talk to me until you know how that will resolve? Legato's fate is not the end-all be-all of your world, so why? You haven't heard a word I've said and are focusing on him, instead.
Why?
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What?
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he shakes his head, a coil of some tight tension in his stomach, his voice dropped down to a murmur.]
...If Legato is... all that matters to you, then... maybe you were right.
Maybe you were better off on the loss having forgotten you care about anything at all.
[it doesn't feel like a stretch, right now.
he turns back for the door, moving to click it quietly shut behind him as he heads into the hall.]
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so, this time, he just keeps walking.]
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Well. That went all wrong. And yet. She feels terrible and burned clean and galvanized. Maybe that kind of burn was what she needed, she thinks? She doesn't know.
She'll drop a filter to him later. For now she lets him go.]