SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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week 1, sunday post execution

[aubins]

[ hey. britt.

yuri is just sat outside the medbay. he's been sat here for... well. a long time actually. not willing to move in case he misses shi qingxuan. how're you doing, hero of hour? ]

[shiftingwinds]

[he's been sitting for three hours and however long it took ming yi to let her walk outside of the medbay alone. anyway.

when she comes out, she's... not injured at all? the only thing that looks strange about her is her hand, which is still very much a yaoihand. hate that for her. she's moving a little slowly, but it's probably fine.

when she spots yuri just outside, she pauses.]

...Yuri?

[aubins]

[ it's fine, he hasn't had anywhere else to go. ]

Hey.

Guess we don't have to plan a systematic take down of a robot, seeing as you jumped the gun on me.

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha... that wasn't entirely my choice [she. she had no idea she was going to be heading in there? in fact, yesterday, she was pretty sure it wouldn't be her.] but I'm glad he won't be able to hurt anyone else.

[aubins]

I figured.

You gave us quite a scare there, you know. I'm glad you're okay. [ YAOI HAND NOT WITHSTANDING. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Sorry... I really didn't mean to scare anyone.

[...]

But I'm not sorry he's gone.

[aubins]

[ he just points at her. ]

Do not apologise for that. If anything had gone wrong, he wouldn't have made it out of the conference room anyway.

But that doesn't matter, because it worked out.

[shiftingwinds]

[she smiles at that]

Ming-xiong said something like that too - that there were enough people who were ready to finish the job if he was the one to walk out there. I'm glad... I was really worried about that.

[she very much did not want hk-47 to live.]

[aubins]

If there hadn’t been, I don’t doubt for a moment someone wouldn’t have taken it down before the end of next week.

[ ... ]

I guess this was just the quickest way to the inevitable goal. Even if it was probably the most dangerous.

[shiftingwinds]

At least it's over now.

[they've just got, uh, two more killers out there to deal with.]

[aubins]

[ it's fine.

he almost wants to say "for now" but this really isn't the time. ]

Yeah. And we got a good outcome out of it, even if it was very on edge the whole time.

[ ... then he looks at her yaoi hand. ]

So. Stuck with that for a while, are you?

[shiftingwinds]

That seems to be the case.

[SIGHS HEAVILY.]

I'm of half a mind to see if Gluttony can fix it. The power seems to have come from them in the first place, right? Since it was given to those of us that were aligned with their sin.

[aubins]

...

[ hm. ]

I would not. Gluttony's interesting to talk to, but I'm not sure I want to do anything that would put me anywhere near being in debt to them.

[shiftingwinds]

...ahaha, did they say something strange to you, too?

[aubins]

You might need to narrow down the strange things, but... turns out trying to find out what they're not actually good at can lead to some interesting conversations.

[shiftingwinds]

Well, now I'm just curious. Is there anything they're not good at?

[aubins]

I might've caught them on a technicality, but I'm actually not sure.

[ ... ]

It's really annoying, actually.

[shiftingwinds]

[she chuckles]

Annoying? Because they make so many things look effortless?

[aubins]

More because no one is perfect at everything, but everything I suggest is just "oh yes I am really rather adept at that particular skill set". [ he may be pitching his voice a little more gluttony like.

sqx nearly died, but here they are. grumbling about gluttony. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[



sorry she's just bursting into giggles at yuri's gluttony impression.]

[aubins]

[ hey, he tried. ]

You know that's exactly what they're like.

[shiftingwinds]

Ask them to bring along one of their cats next time you talk. You'll see a completely different side of them.

[aubins]

Like the one that showed up in trial? How many of them do they have?

[shiftingwinds]

At least two, but it sounded like more, from what I heard. The one from trial is named Judas - the other I met is named Cain.

[aubins]

[ ... sighs. ]

Interesting names.