aubins | SHI QING XUAN

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.

At least it's over now.

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

[ 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?

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.

...

[ 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.

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

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.

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

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

[ ... ]

It's really annoying, actually.

[she chuckles]

Annoying? Because they make so many things look effortless?

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. ]

Edited 2021-02-22 16:17 (UTC)