oo1 . voice/action

[forhishonor]

--Hey!

[ the sound of muffled footsteps, quick and light, can be heard, followed a scant second later by swearing. ]

GIVE MY SWORD BACK, YOU ASSHOLE!

[ language, young master nightray. ]

Ugh! Give me that back or I swear on my honor as a Nightray that I will make you pay!

[ and now, more rapid footsteps, this time much louder and clearer than the last set. if you're prowling around the streets of the city, it might be best to scurry out of the way lest you be slammed into by an angry little boy. ]

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[a_parting_word]

Elliot... Elliot, you haven't given up on the strength of my will, have you?

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[forhishonor]

[ and to think he calls this man his brother. ]

[forhishonor]

What part of Reveil is this anyway? It doesn't look like any place I've seen before.

[ just. gonna ignore that last question, okay. ]

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[a_parting_word]

Elliot...

[a_parting_word]

...Elliot...

[a_parting_word]

...Ellliooooooot...

[a_parting_word]

...Elli... oooooooot......

[a_parting_word]

...Elliiiiiiooooooooooootttt....

[a_parting_word]

.........Elllllllliiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooooooooooooooot...

[a_parting_word]

...Elli -

[a_parting_word]

done, I am mostly sorry : (

[a_parting_word]

It... it isn't. I'm sorry. I'm afraid it isn't. Take... take a seat, Elliot. If you can - if you'd like.

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[forhishonor]

I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!

[forhishonor]

And what do you mean, it isn't?

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[a_parting_word]

It - isn't.

You're not anywhere you know. I'm not - ... I said good afternoon, didn't I? Why couldn't you simply -

[a_parting_word]

[ all right, all right. time to - pull it together. ]

This isn't anywhere close to home. No - it's not the Abyss either. And I haven't... haven't touched any liquors today. It's more complicated than that. I thought... maybe it's the work of a foreign Chain. A new world it's made. Something like that. Break, Liam and I - for now, we can't make sense of it.

[forhishonor]

[ Elliot will just be quiet (for once!) as Gilbert attempts to explain all of this. ]

I don't remember arriving here at all.

[ the parade of names though...]

--Leo! Have you seen Leo?

[a_parting_word]

None of us do. Although you've... we've been here before. Apparently. I can't say I recall either, but there were portraits taken. Photographs. The kind of evidence Oscar Vessalius took when he -

[ ...ah. Leo. How to break this gently - ]

I'm sorry. Elliot, I'm - sorry.


[ - why, by not doing it at all, of course. ]

[forhishonor]

[ you do realize that phrase makes things sound 100x more grim than they ought to be, yes? ]

What happened to him?

[a_parting_word]

...he's fine, that I know of. Very fine.


[ Too fine, but that's not something you tell your startled brother. ]

But he's not here.

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[forhishonor]

Then why didn't you say that?!

[ dear lord, he almost had a heart attack ]

[forhishonor]

So it's just the four of us?

[a_parting_word]

[ lightly - ]

You can... skip your evening coat for dinner.

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[forhishonor]

[ ......dinner with Xerxes Break?? *A* ]

I will stop with these two-parters now, I swear.

[forhishonor]

It's not even close to dinner yet. And I still have to get my sword back.