the noose. [for errantknights]
For all its bizarre multiversal clatter, the Nexus does occasionally present itself as a conveniently private place, or at least certain avenues thereof! The AVF, it should be said, also holds a certain appeal for a certain quasi-mad scientist on a certain day - today - which is less quasi-mad than it is wholly and irrevocably so.
( overcome and completely silent now; i'm more than just a little curious how you're planning to go about making your amends to the dead. recalling the deeds as if they're someone else's atrocious stories, your halo slipping down to choke you now, to pull you to the ground. )
( overcome and completely silent now; i'm more than just a little curious how you're planning to go about making your amends to the dead. recalling the deeds as if they're someone else's atrocious stories, your halo slipping down to choke you now, to pull you to the ground. )
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When Martel gets the message, he's cloistered with his work and it takes him nearly a full minute to discern what the hell that noise is and why he should care - when he reads it he rolls his sleeves down, washes his hands and leaves immediately. In light of how Henry looks and feels right now - Martel has witnessed hellish recreationals, and he can say with authority Henry does look sort of like the aftermath - his own overworked dishevelment will probably go conveniently unnoticed.
There are more pressing things than how much time he didn't feel like wasting to get here.
"You look terrible," he says, upon arrival.
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Interestingly what passes through him at Martel's own state is a ripple of longing, because he knows that look as well as Martel knows his, and he misses that- when what he was doing was exhausting but clean. But the time for such things is past, pleasantries assumed, formalities dispensed with, etc. "I haven't got much time, and so I'll be brief: there's something I have to ask, and in all likelihood I'll never be able to repay you, nor anything like return the favor. Although-" that wince again, "that's probably best."
Since ....who the fuck wants to return the favor in question, I ask you.
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Beyond how Henry looks (terrible) and sounds (unstable), the beginnings of a solution to the puzzle that's been plaguing him has started to prick at the edges of Martel's awareness, some other sense roused into a state of attention. He's preoccupied with what's immediately in front of him, for now, but it can only build for so long until he pays heed to what his own mind is trying to tell him ( ... )
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Somehow. "And in the circumstance where it becomes necessary, I will have become too dangerous to be allowed to live."
MAYBE that is a sentence that should have been very delicately built up to, with a lot of explanation, but he just absolutely does not have that kind of time. It would be easier if he could even count on anything but 'very little,' - Hyde comes and goes as he likes, though. They say it's not the landing that kills you, but in this case it's not even the fall, it's living constantly with the possibility of a push. "My intention is to take care of this myself, but if that becomes impossible, I need someone who won't blink."
It's ...actually a compliment.
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