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grabs by the throat ([personal profile] maladied) wrote2025-11-30 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] heartofcorundum 2025-12-04 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
---!

[He doesn't let his grip go, instead scrambling with bad hand and all to get a better grip on them. It's an impossibility, to pull them back. It's impossible, it's inevitable, but--]
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[personal profile] hymned 2025-12-04 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ A child's empty expression huh

hello PTSD my old friend, ]
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[personal profile] heartofcorundum 2025-12-04 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
No -- no--

[god. GOD.

He promised.

He can feel the tension unravelling between them, like the child will very well split in half. But his injured hand makes the choice for him, and his complete lack of grip starts to slip away faster and faster, until the inevitable pull from Magi will win out. He stumbles backwards with a fumbling attempt to try and grasp what's left of the child's outfit at the collar. But it's a losing battle.]
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[personal profile] heartofcorundum 2025-12-04 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
You--

[What little he has in words, Thancred makes up for in just how dark his emotions swirl, how obvious his hurt is in his posture and the way his eyes start to burn. Something he could hide with tone and a chance to step away, but never in the moment. Always obvious in the moment, always called out in the moment. As though your heart were to burst straight out of your chest--]

You have already taken quite enough. [His knuckles tighten white at his sides as he stumbles back from the empty spot where Finis once stood, teeth gritting.]

Let us out.
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[personal profile] heartofcorundum 2025-12-04 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yes--

[Caught in a pained seethe from his teeth. It's his injured left hand that she finds and snares herself around. But though he fights to stay grounded through the pain that advances up his arm, he doesn't pull that hand away.

If it gets the rest out. If it keeps any more casualties from piling. Erasure is not an option. So--]


Take your damned payment and let us leave.
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[personal profile] heartofcorundum 2025-12-04 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't believe her. He says nothing, but it is etched into every tension of muscle at her words.

Memory remembers a price, and does not trust the absence.

Even as the touch snakes up towards his elbow, he doesn't respond. Not to correct her, nor to acknowledge. He'd said all he wished.]