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[erbier]

Shame on us; doomed from the start.

May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts.

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[erbier]

[ She turns her head and really looks, hand inching the rest of the way into his. ]

I am afraid of what it will do. If it will drive me mad, or if it is a beacon for the creature to find me again. It has already been here on the Barge once, what if there is no one here to beat it back?

I was... so certain it had come again, that it had turned the Barge into that corrupted place.

[crowned_clown]

I don't know.

But I think that if it comes here... there will always be people who'll try to fight it back.

[erbier]

I don't want to be its herald.

[crowned_clown]

Then you shouldn't be.

[It's often not simple, but sometimes he wishes it could be made such through pure force of will.]

[erbier]

Hm. [ A familiar small noise of agreement. ] I thought I might be safe on the Barge, that if I had to live this might be the only place to hide.

[ Then it appeared, and it's no wonder she had a paranoia freakout as the madness and fog rolled in. ]

[crowned_clown]

I don't know how safe the Barge is, but I think it can grant safety.

That's why I'm here. To erase the Fourteenth, so I don't have to hide from everyone.

[erbier]

I hope you get your wish.

[crowned_clown]

I will, unless I die first.

[A statement of fact. He's not going to stop trying. He shifts to look directly at Ilde.]

If it would take a wish to banish whatever demon might want you for a herald, I'd stay for that too.

[erbier]

I would never ask that of you.

[crowned_clown]

No, but I'd want to.

[erbier]

[ A frown, so stubborn... ]

You should rest first.

[crowned_clown]

[He's stubborn enough to have remained himself, no matter what. He's even more determined when it comes to his friends.

He smiles at her.] It's good to rest when you can.

[erbier]

I used to sleep on the ground in the garden. This is the first real bed I have ever had. The first room that I was allowed to claim as my own and share with no one.

[crowned_clown]

And you've made a really nice room.

[erbier]

It was empty, at first.

[ Because nowhere had even been a home, and she had been presented with a blank slate to make her own. ]

But it became this way after I requested more plants. The warden and the Admiral were very generous in their planning.

[crowned_clown]

[He nods.]

You've made it into a good place.

[One she's built, with the help of others.]

[erbier]

I like it...

[ Her little bastion of selfishness. ]

This is all I really want from the Admiral.

[crowned_clown]

A place here?

[erbier]

Mm. That's all.