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Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

I do want it back, when you don't need it anymore. It's special to me.

But I've got the feathers under control enough now -- I think you'll benefit more from it right this moment. Especially while you tinker with dangerous stuff.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

[exhales and accepts it]

Thanks, bro. I’ll keep it in good shape.

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

Good. I'll kick your ass if you lose it.

[ He sprawls on his bed, staring at the ceiling ]

... Do you know what you're gonna do once we dock?

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

[he sits on the edge]

I was gonna finish up a couple things. It’ll all go a lot faster with full shop resources and tools.

Other than that, probably check out the site where Lea and I were found and see if there were any clues left there.

You?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

...

I need you to... not do that.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

Um…

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

[ Lets out a breath ]

You've heard of the Cordionna, right?

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

[hedges]

A bit?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

We were raised by them.

They killed our parents.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

[jolts right back up to standing, the vines trying madly to writhe in containment]

Bro?!

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

[ His vines drop to Eriks's arm and he considers stopping.

Takes a breath, continuing ]

When we get back to Port Manteau, they'll be wanting me dead too. It's likely they'll send you to be the one to do it.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

I—

[twists his fingers in one of his coats]

—knew that. Part.

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

...

Is that why you came back?

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

I got into a couple of burner emails months after — whatever happened. Not that long before we got the invites to the ship.

There were orders to investigate, intervene, terminate if necessary. I—want to think I thought it’d never get to the third step, you know?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

You know it'll be a test of loyalty, right?

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

Why’d I have those orders, Ace?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

Why do you think, Eriks?

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

Who’d you kill?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

The man who ordered the kill on our parents. The man who raised us, if you could call it 'raising.'

He decided the flower you have branded onto your back.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

Fuck.

[he just cannot muster the same level of intensity even hearing that. he just looks sad.]

Okay, go on. You need me not to show my face onshore, I can do that. Birds live everywhere.

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

You can't do that forever.

...

I'm going to let them think they won.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

What does that mean?

Re: Day 249

[featherduster]

We can't die, but I don't think they know that. So they just need to find a body.

Re: Day 249

[liveslaughsloves]

Can I…help? With that…?