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rafayel - scaredy cat
fiammetta - old lady
tokinaga - mr know it all

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[paenitete]

[ it's because the hair reminds you of soo-won doesn't it....

she stares at him. ]

[handfast]

[ IT'S RED? IT WOULD REMIND HIM OF YONA

he sees her staring at him. ]

What?

[paenitete]

[ its both of them... ]

Are you cursed?

[handfast]

[ HELLO ]

I just came out of the river. What would I be cursed with?

[ damn he's never being nice again ]

[paenitete]

I just didn't expect a compliment.

[ hm. ]

But... you've also been through a lot.

[handfast]

....You didn't have to check up on me.

[ this is his way of (badly) showing appreciation. ]

[paenitete]

Of course I did. You were bleeding all over the place. I didn't get to you in time to help.

[handfast]

[ stares at her........... ]

You really are a nice person, huh.

[paenitete]

[ ... GLARES AT HIM ]

You didn't think I was until now? You sure you don't want to tell me you're cursed?

[handfast]

[ that is my favorite icon

anyway he doesn't say what he's thinking. ]

I'm fine. So you don't have to worry anymore.

[paenitete]

[ i get so much mileage out of that icon

he doesn't have to say it but you should tell me anyway ]

Do you think telling someone that has ever made them stop worrying?

...I won't make you talk about what happened if you don't want to.

[handfast]

[ he was just going to say he thought she was a nag.....but you knew that already

but he does also think of hien, who'd pretty much said the same thing. ]

......Guess not. [ fine!! she can worry. ] And none of it was real anyway.

[ or was it..... ]

[paenitete]

I don't think that matters either.

[ fia doesn't say anything but her chest clenches a little. you didn't read masses travels val but there is a specific thing about dreams in there... ]

Even dreams can still affect people when they're awake.

[handfast]

[ tears up in long ak events written in text for ants. hak leans back a little, staring up at the branches up above. ]

I remembered the person in my shard. [ ... ] She killed me.

[paenitete]

[ fiammetta's eyes go wide. before she can think: ]

Yona?

[handfast]

Yeah. I deserved it.

[ in that life, at least. ]

[paenitete]

How? What happened?

[handfast]

We were taking people and selling them. We tried to pass it off as a trade for a new medicine but...

[ well. that sort of thing can only be covered up for so long. ]

[paenitete]

Wait, so... human trafficking?

[ THIS IS SO FUNNY.... ]

Who was running it?

[handfast]

[ another long pause. ]

I don't know. [ he never figured out that lore. ] But all four of us were involved.

[paenitete]

[ so she can't be sure it's the same as lucien's life. still, last week some of the people here went to terra... it's not far out of the realm of possibility. ]

They forced you into doing that? How? That's just...

[ she doesn't know hak that well, but he wouldn't do that. ]

[handfast]

[ he sits back up, frowning. ]

I wasn't....me. Or I was, but I remember being someone else too. Someone who'd been doing that for a long time.

[paenitete]

So it was some kind of brainwashing. And Yona found you.

[handfast]

[ when will any of them learn what an isekai is ]

She— [ hm. how does he untangle any of this. ] Some of it was how I remember. We still grew up together. Me, her, and Soo-won. She was supposed to marry Soo-won but I guess something happened and she ended up with me instead.

[ why is he making this sound like a soap opera.... ]

[paenitete]

[ help me ]

Were they arranged to be married in your childhood too?