ablazement | 🔥 astarion

[hooray hand!]

No, not with me, but it's because I made sure he couldn't sneak off from us. [she rubs her face.] Stupid. I can't believe the other me didn't see it. Didn't notice.

...

Even I picked up on it. Had to talk him down from it, regardless, but I still noticed.

[ what WERE the other them doing? ]

Ugh. I hate that we didn't, where he came from. I don't like thinking that I wouldn't have done everything I could in every timeline.

Maybe he was just better at hiding it. It sounds like in his version, he was the one… leading everyone, essentially. In mine, I was. And I suspect in yours, you were.

It’s a lot easier to hide something when people are turning to you, rather than you turning to them.

Yeah - yeah, it was me leading the charge where I'm from.

[they discover they are all origins]

... That's true, I guess. If he was moving us along, we wouldn't have had the chance. Ugh. [...] How'd leading our pack of idiots go for you, huh?

[ our origins babies. ]

Mm. If he were doing the proverbial cat herding, we'd all be looking to him and I don't think he'd have had much of a chance to sit down and talk about his thoughts on it in great detail. [ which is... annoying. ]

Oh, like proverbial cat herding. [ DON'T SAY THAT AGAIN. ] None of you have mutinied, so that's a pleasant surprise.

[she laughs a little at the last bit.]

Aww. It's almost like we like you. A little like adopting a feral cat off the street and appointing it in charge of finances.