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[ablazement]

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[ablazement]

To go. To have that ended. I've got a partner, you know, so my choice was made for me.

That's fine. I didn't want to take them down with me.

[undread]

Well, I wouldn't get too down in the dumps about it. We all agreed to wait until after Sunday from now on!

[poor robin is still around, but poor robin is also... less of a direct threat.]

No one can force you to live if you don't want to, really.

[ablazement]

[thuds her head against the barrier.]

I got asked to.

[undread]

Asking isn't forcing. You can disappoint people sometimes.

[ablazement]

[she shakes her head.]

Not - not Vin. I already took so much.

[undread]

Vin is the one who demanded you live?

[that surprises her a little - vin is so pragmatic.]

[ablazement]

She didn't demand. She thought don't leave me because she'd never fucking ask me out loud.

[undread]

I see. [that makes more sense.] Then maybe she didn't demand because she knows it's too much to ask.

[ablazement]

I don't want to die.

[she says, finally, exhausted.]

I just... I think I don't want to live here.

[undread]

Yes... it isn't very nice, to be here and to still have to try. You have a kind and strong heart, Karlach. But even a strong heart will fail if you don't protect it.

[ablazement]

[silence, for a long moment.]

I think it's going to.

[fail, she means.]

[undread]

No wonder. All this strain.

[ablazement]

[a sigh.]

I don't... I don't know if I want to go out like that. [in another universe somewhere, she does - she sits on a pier and she burns out. but here, she thinks she has more choices.]

[undread]

Then will you make a different choice? I think that's fair.

[ablazement]

Yeah, I think so. One way or another.

[thankfully her boys agreed.]