trailofblood | (no subject)

Why? You want to live, don't you? Why put your life on the line if you don't have to?

Our offering will be enough, Wolfwood.

We don't know that. For all we know a bunch of others offered somethin' "better." I'm not gonna risk havin' a t- a friend die for my sake. You wanted us both to accept death from the start, well, we're in this shit together now.

What if I'm not risking it for your sake?

What if it's for my own?

What's that supposed to mean?

[we've both offered to die like multiple times throughout this conversation you'll have to clarify]

Dying... is probably really unpleasant. But it's like you said- we all come back, get better. I'm fine with that, so there's no point in you tying yourself up in knots for my sake.

But how do you think I'm gonna live with myself knowing I helped kill somebody who already said they don't want to die? Knowing I even agreed to the possibility?

I won't be able to get better from that. Probably not ever.

[opens his mouth to yell something at him]

[stops]

You're a real piece of work, you know that?

[ Here he half expected to get smacked again. ]

Yeah. So I'm learning.

Have it your way.

[ Exhales, long and slow. ]

Thank you.

[Our only alternative is to become demons. . .]

Yeah, whatever.

[ Merely words, after all. ]

[gonna sit over here against the wall and twirl that quill between his fingers]

[ So...

If he sits down next to you, how's that gonna go ]

[twirling continues]

[ ...... ]

We could play tic-tac-toe if that'll help any.

The game where Liter died, I carved my name into my arm with a quill like this one.

[sorry were you trying to lighten the mood]

[ Typical. ]

... Why? Was that part of the game?

A member of each team got put into this glass cylinder fillin' up with water. Each round more water got added, until. . . [you can imagine] Liter was ours.

So we had to do "tasks" to slow it down.

[ Deliberately flat, ]

Tasks like carving things onto your arms.

So... what determined who won and who lost?

Like that, yeah. And drinkin' poison. [eyes the ink bottle]

The ones whose teammates didn't die, I guess. I wasn't really payin' much attention to who won.

What I mean is...

If you did the tasks, why did he still have to die?

. . .

You also had one chance to send a round's water to another team.

We got hit in the first and third rounds. There was one last round after that, but he'd already drowned.

... So in other words, you could kill another team's hostage to protect yours.

[ jfc thanks for this heart-to-heart, he's feeling much more chipper now ]

[you're welcome]

Not everyone's like you, spikey.

'Least we can't get fucked over by anyone else in this game. If we lose, it's our own fault.