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brokenboar

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From:

flamecursed

[ HEY don't say she failed anything. ]

Because I did not try! I would have succeeded if that had been my goal!

From:

brokenboar

[his brain: so what you're saying is I'M RIGHT]

So you do mean to kill me!

From:

flamecursed

No I do not! And especially not in a way that lands me on the dirty floor!

From:

brokenboar

[he sneers,]

The floor? This place is practically pristine.

[the tiles are nice and cool! and he's not sleeping in mud! by all accounts he's moving up in life!]

From:

flamecursed

I've always enjoyed debating you, but perhaps not on the matter of floor cleanliness.

From:

brokenboar

[she enjoyed it...?]

Of all the things to lie about. There's no point in lauding those arguments.

Edited Date: 2025-12-18 07:01 am (UTC)

From:

flamecursed

Why would I lie? They told me that you had a sharp mind, and a strong heart. I learned the most of people when they would stand up for what they believed in.

And now here I am, arguing about our arguments.

From:

brokenboar

Because I know that's not what you really think!

You think I am a delusional lunatic. A weak-hearted man not fit to lead.

From:

flamecursed

You are delusional, but you are also quite intelligent. Perhaps that sharp mind was also a double-edged sword.

[ starting there. that's the easier one. ]

From:

brokenboar

[he scoffs,]

Do not flatter. You mistook a lack of arrogance for intellect. There was never anything special about my mind, save for its persistence.

From:

flamecursed

I am not trying to flatter you.

From:

brokenboar

Then stop mincing words.

From:

flamecursed

[ she's starting to get up now, though her previously-stabbed leg wobbles as she puts her weight on it.

men. MEN. STUBBORN MEN. ]

I am speaking plainly, you're just refusing to hear me. Persistent indeed.

From:

brokenboar

One may speak plain and still obfuscate.

Even back at the academy, you thought me naive, and my strategies transparent. All that time evaluating everyone... did you not think I watched you also?

From:

flamecursed

[ a small frown. ]

And what did you see?

From:

brokenboar

[there is an uncharacteristic pause. a crinkling sound, as a can of beans is crushed in his hand.]

A girl who had closed off her heart... whose every word would break mine if I did not hide it.

From:

flamecursed

[ a hand hovers at her side momentarily, before dropping back. ]

I do wish that I had remembered. Even if it had changed nothing in the end.

From:

brokenboar

[bitterly,]

You would wish such things, and still think yourself not cruel?

From:

flamecursed

When I kissed you, I knew that I had to be.

[ it's you who isn't cruel! ]

From:

brokenboar

[quietly,]

Do not speak of that.

From:

flamecursed

[ she does not like being told what not to talk about but. she will grant him this small mercy. ]

Then I'll say this instead. You and your gift to me were the only reason I survived my return to the empire.

[ to which she imagines he will take as a THEN I SHOULD HAVE LET YOU DIE moment. ]

From:

brokenboar

[it's tempting. but his tempestuous mood is as black bile instead of fire right now, and he spits his words out as though they were poison instead.]

Am I to feel glad about that? That it was an act of kindness, done without thought, that doomed all I love?

From:

flamecursed

No, because that was my fault, not yours.

From:

brokenboar

[he scoffs, seemingly incapable of taking any alm provided that could let him hate himself less.]

I doomed them regardless. Faerghus is as good as gone.

From:

flamecursed

You're hardly alone in that blame, then. I know my actions have had dire consequences, and I know better than anyone else that there was always a dark party weaving their machinations behind the scenes.