[ rune doesn't reply for a while, at least an hour, but it's mostly because he's making arrangements to meet the person he'd come to see. after, he scrolls through their conversation and sighs. ]
you can't change it. sofija's memories have been destroyed. you'll never beat the unseelie court at their own game. and i won't risk mika's life for you to have the chance to show off.
do you want me to miss you? do you ever have the desire for anyone to think of you that way?
what do you want me to do? try to get out of my contract? make my way back to faerie? renege on this deal? and when mika suffers for it, what then? you don't care about her. you don't even care about me. this is entirely about you.
will that make you feel fulfilled and important? you're so desperate to chase after approval and you don't even know it.
she'll grow up as i did. it will be hard. but it will make her strong. and when she comes of age she can choose to do as she wishes. i'm not here to coddle her. i'm here to make sure she stays alive. in faerie she has a chance to fight. here, she would already be dead.
the same people that drove you to my home in unbearable pain?
i did not drug you. you were in terrible pain and i gave you a very common fae remedy for it. apparently i should have left you to bleed out in the grass.
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Should I come rescue you?
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you miss me, don't you?
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Do you miss me?
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it's a short list, though.
even you're on it.
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Are you going to answer me or not?
[ he means about saving him. ]
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even if you think you're helping.
i think it bothers you when you feel helpless.
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I was asking to be nice.
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i'm not sure you know what true kindness is.
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I'm sure you know exactly what true kindness is, right?
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and yes. i do know it. i had a wonderful example in my wife.
[ might as well tell him he's married. ]
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[ he doesn't care about lynx or his wife or his daughter. frankly, he doesn't care about this conversation. ]
Why do you keep talking to me?
Because you want to insult me?
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what happened to them was because i was selfish.
i wanted to do what i wanted to do.
i was talking to you because i missed you.
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Crying about it all the time is just as selfish.
You don't miss me, Lynx.
You just don't have anyone else.
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and i won't risk mika's life for you to have the chance to show off.
do you want me to miss you?
do you ever have the desire for anyone to think of you that way?
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Can't is something a quitter says.
I guess I thought differently about you.
I don't want you to miss me.
I want you to need me.
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try to get out of my contract? make my way back to faerie? renege on this deal?
and when mika suffers for it, what then?
you don't care about her.
you don't even care about me.
this is entirely about you.
will that make you feel fulfilled and important?
you're so desperate to chase after approval and you don't even know it.
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It's never been about me.
You could do more with your life than waste it.
But clearly I know nothing about that.
You don't understand me at all.
I don't need your approval or anyone else's.
I'm going to prove them all wrong.
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not if it means keeping my daughter safe.
prove to who?
no one's looking at you, witch.
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How is that not a waste?
Wrong. I don't want them to see.
Otherwise, I'd be dead.
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but it will make her strong. and when she comes of age she can choose to do as she wishes.
i'm not here to coddle her. i'm here to make sure she stays alive.
in faerie she has a chance to fight.
here, she would already be dead.
the same people that drove you to my home in unbearable pain?
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Those still sound like excuses.
Something like that.
I'm sure I told you all about it while you had me drugged.
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you wouldn't understand.
you're not fae.
i did not drug you.
you were in terrible pain and i gave you a very common fae remedy for it.
apparently i should have left you to bleed out in the grass.
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I could say the same about you.
You're not a witch. You wouldn't understand.
Don't talk to me about remedies.
But I suppose I should thank you for helping me.
I wouldn't have made it too long without you.
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well, since you now owe me your life, i demand my seafood platter the next time i have the distinct displeasure of seeing you.
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And I don't owe you anything.
You forget you owed me and I collected.
We're even.
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