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[myironeyes]

[Open spam in the greenhouse.]

[It's a peculiar sight, even moreso than Marsh on his own. The man with spikes for eyes is carrying a very small, ugly, excitable cockatiel chick, carefully transferring her from one flowerbed to the next, letting her waddle intrepidly through the greenery, meticulously watching over her and snatching her gently away from any drop-offs or sinister-looking creeper vines while frowning in terse disapproval.]

[Private to Zane]

I'd like to teach you the fast way to kill an Inquisitor.

[It's neither an instruction nor a question; it's a preference. He knows Zane is struggling with his own relationship with violence right now. Zane could refuse, if he wants to.]

Just in case.


[Private to Barbara]

What is your opinion on mercy killing?


[Private to Erik]

How are you getting along with Kelsier?


[Private separately to Ned and Lua]

If you had to trust someone on this ship to kill you, who would it be?


[Private to Ryan Hardy]

I am your warden. I am still not a metaphor for anything.

We should meet.

Comments

[surrenders]

[oh that's. quite a question right there. She doesn't know him quite well enough to guess why he asks, but has a guess, and will point it there.]

Never had to think about that before, never been that kind of sick or dangerous. Thought I needed killing, I... I'd do it myself, but if I didn't? You know Dean, right? Looks like that Ben kid except a few years older, lives a couple doors down from me. He's killed a lot of different kinds of things and doesn't think it's too much fun.

[myironeyes]

I met him.

[Marsh was baffled by him, mostly. But this is. Good to know.]

What kinds of things?

[surrenders]

Things that aren't human. That can do more than people can.

[myironeyes]

That's a fairly wide category.

[He supposes he qualifies.]

[surrenders]

There are a lot. He doesn't say much, but between here and back home...

I think it's more important that he doesn't like doing it.

[myironeyes]

Yes. That's...it matters.

Thank you.

[surrenders]

It's nothing.

You think there's a good chance of that, then. You not remembering who you are.

[myironeyes]

I am...at risk. Perhaps more than most.

[surrenders]

You think there's a way to get you back down without killing you?

[myironeyes]

If I cannot retain my mind - then no. Probably not.

[surrenders]

...he'll make it quick, at least. And when you wake up, if you still aren't you, you won't be able to do too much.

[myironeyes]

[Marsh nearly smiles.]

I couldn't ask for more.

[surrenders]

At least we got that much here. That we come back.