🔥 kate

[ablazement]

shitpost incoming

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[ablazement]

[a little smile.]

I've run into worse, I bet - but that's smart. You can plan it out, I trust your lead. Especially since you know the layout and climate better than me.

[sootprints]

... Thank you. You don't know what that means to me. It's... been an uphill battle, finding allies.

[ablazement]

Bet you have. Not everybody is strong enough to stand up to shit like that.

I've got a little bit of experience taking down tyrants, is all.

[which - slides in a last second return memshare for fun and profit]

[sootprints]

Karlach...

[ aaaaaa

well, now there's a lot more smoke. ]

... your heart...?

[ she could gather that much, that karlach doesn't think she has long to live. ]

[ablazement]

[nooooo not the smoke!!!]

Fuuuuh. [a beat.]

Yeah. My heart. [she should probably explain, but she feels bad about telling kate this right after she promised to help.]

[sootprints]

... Is it... is something wrong with it? The engine?

[ she can put two and two together. ]

[ablazement]

It's too hot. [she says reluctantly.] It can't take it out here, in a place other than the Hells, and my body can't take that forever.

[sootprints]

That's...

... I'm sorry, Karlach. That's terrible.

[ablazement]

I'm taking advantage of what I've got. So - thank you. But it's alright.

[a little smile.]

I've got some time left! I can dance and laugh and eat with all of you. So that's what I'll do.

[sootprints]

But... you'd be okay if you went back, right?

[ablazement]

Back where?

[sootprints]

To... a place where it can "take it"...

[ hesitant... ]

[ablazement]

... Yeah, but I'm not going. I won't go back the Hells. Death is better than that.

[firmly.]

[sootprints]

... Oh...

[ worry. ]

What about... using a wish?

[ablazement]

That's a possibility.

[... sigh.]

But I'd have to find my partner first. And I'm not even sure I want to do that.

[sootprints]

Are you worried about the risks?

[ablazement]

Just don't want to take someone down with me. That's all.