KARLACHHHHH

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one day ill have images prepared

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[...]

... Yeah. I didn't exactly trust them when they said we still had time before the ritual, but... it's not a ritual if only one of the sacrifices is dead, is it?

[ablazement]

[a harsh huff of a laugh.]

No, I guess it doesn't fucking count if it's just one person at a time. Nice fucking loophole.

[bookpapers]

[he rubs at his face, grimacing]

...So what, is this gonna happen every night now? We get locked in no matter what and just wake up to someone else dead?

[ablazement]

[can you imagine how fucked up that'd be if that was actually how it was]

Might be. Don't know why they waited so long if they were going to do it this way, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is we have to put everything into making sure it doesn't happen again.

Can we lock the doors from the inside the buildings somehow? Make it so nothing can get in?

[bookpapers]

[it would be so fcked up and also SO funny

thinking...]

We can try barricading them. Windows will be harder. But the mortuary should be easy, since you've guys just got the door. You can use the coffins and borrow some of the pews.

We can try making traps too. Just not sure what kind with what we have now....

[WATER BALLOONS MAYBE?]

[ablazement]

If we could figure out a way to sharpen branches, we could use some of the trees.

[a pause, and then:]

I won't let the kids get put in the line of fire. You're on thin ice as is, as far as that goes. [since he is nineteen and she thinks that's baby] But you want to protect everybody as much as I do. So.

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[he looks surprised at this -- like he's just remembering that he is technically a kid, which is probably telling. unlike kanda, who'd huff and puff about it -- lavi thinks it's nice, that there are people who won't always think of the exorcists as tools first and foremost.

but he's still one of them, so he smiles -- briefly cheeky]

...'Appreciate it. [for caring, and also for acknowledging] We'll be more useful to you on the front anyway. Yuu's got his sword -- so he can help sharpen branches.

[ablazement]

[nudges him gently. friendly. that's maybe a problem they have in common, anyway - caring too much.]

Works for me, if you can convince him to work. I managed to get a spar out of him and that was about it. [...] I'm not concerned about use, you know. Just that you've got someone looking out for you.

[bookpapers]

...Yeah, I know.

And I also know you've already got friends you can rely on... but you've got us too. We'll watch your back.

[kanda can be there in spirit]

[ablazement]

[okay, he gets upgraded to a hair ruffle, because she's a sucker for this.]

I can always use more friends. [a little smile.] It'll be easier this way. Harder, too, in some ways, but not in ways I can't weather.

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Hey...

[A HAIR RUFFLE...! he makes a face like a big ole baby, and then he peers up at her, expression serious. then he nods]

...As long as you weather 'em, yeah? No matter what happens.

[ablazement]

No matter what.

[she agrees, softer.]

Don't talk like it's the end, soldier. We've got a ways to go.

[bookpapers]

[aND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT TRIAL]

Won't complain -- as long as the rest of us make it.