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[adventlead]

Look at what I got.

[Kadaj turns on the video to show the care package, lifting the camera up back to his face. In his other hand is a peach, which he takes a bite out of before talking.]

I'm guessing everyone else got one too? Oh, good. Forget everything else, as long as we can stay clean that makes everything better, doesn't it?

[He kicks

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[betrayedblade]

We must talk.

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[adventlead]

What?

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[betrayedblade]

About what happened.

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[adventlead]

Lots of things happened. You'll have to be more specific.

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[betrayedblade]

Last week is a little fuzzy. That's the point.

I want to know what you did. What happened when we...disagreed. When we fought.

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[adventlead]

You were knocked out like the fool you are. I couldn't let the monsters take you.

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[betrayedblade]

[He let's out a long breath as if perhaps he'd been holding it in. He's silent for a moment before responding.]

Why would you bother?

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[adventlead]

[Kadaj scoffs before trying to sound as apathetic as possible.]

Do I need a reason?

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[betrayedblade]

...No. But at the time you seemed very adamant in your distaste for the world, for people. I just want to make sense of why you would help me. Why not just leave me for dead?

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[adventlead]

Maybe I should have...

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[betrayedblade]

Do you really mean that? Or do you just say it because you think you should, as you always have before?

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[adventlead]

You probably wouldn't be asking me this if I had.

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[betrayedblade]

You intentions would be clearer that way. But I'm asking because I'm trying to figure you out. You seem to want or need the attention of others, but you claim to hate people and want to destroy everything. It's very contradicting. And confusing.

I would have helped, Kadaj. But I don't know what to do with you anymore.

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[adventlead]

What can I say? Always the lost cause.

I left you because I didn't want to kill you, but I wasn't going to let you kill me. Is that enough, or do you want to prod more for answers you won't find?

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[betrayedblade]

Only as long as you don't want to be found.

Just one: why wouldn't you want to kill me along with everyone else?

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[adventlead]

Because you haven't done anything wrong to me! Not yet. You probably will. Everyone does. So I'll do the favor for you.

Do you want to die that badly? I can give that to you. Or do you want me to take someone close to you? That sounds fun!