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[cactusy]

... Huh.

If this is fake and you only exist to mess with me, I think they're giving us common backstory elements on purpose.

[ichoosefight]

Listen.

[ Her tone gets serious now, if also tired and a little sad. ]

I get that you can't just flip a switch and wholeheartedly believe in magic or whatever. But can you at least appreciate that it's real for me?

There will be other people too. There are times when you just... don't dismiss someone's life.

[cactusy]

-- Yeah. Okay.

[ichoosefight]

Thank you.

[ ... ]

I'm sorry you got fired. If it sucked for you as much as it did for me.

[cactusy]

I was pissed off at the time. It's, uh-- been a while, though. Had a lot of different jobs since. Including taking orders and not asking questions.

Can't really picture you even trying to do that.

[ichoosefight]

It mattered a lot to me. More than it should have.

But yeah, I'm not really about that kind of one-sided partnership anymore.

[cactusy]

[Honestly, being kicked out of her residency had mattered a lot to Shaw too, in its own way: even now, there's a part of her that still internalizes the idea that she isn't truly fit to save people. But it's not an easy thing to voice, and so she doesn't try.]

So what now? Freelance?

[ichoosefight]

Mmm, not exactly.

[ How does she explain this without actually explaining anything? ]

I came back and got a higher position.

[ Yeah, that works. ]

[cactusy]

Did you... stage a hostile takeover?

[ichoosefight]

Uh... no? Is that what you did?

[cactusy]

Not my thing. Seemed like it might kinda be your thing, though.

[ichoosefight]

Wow, I guess I really came on too strong, huh. Not sure if I'm more proud or embarassed by that.

[cactusy]

I mean, you also came on kinda stupid.

[ichoosefight]

Well, thinking I was gonna get myself killed was the only thing that seemed to get through to you.

[cactusy]

Not sure I'd call any of this "getting through to me". If anything, I got through to you and got you to calm the hell down.

[ichoosefight]

Yeah, funny story, I was never going on a suicide mission. You were definitely hanging up on me, though, and like I said, I'm not okay with that when you have a gun and I don't know how you're going to use it.

[cactusy]

You weren't, huh.

[ichoosefight]

I don't have to go without food or sleep to track you down. By the time I found you I would've been too weak to sneak up on you anyway.

[cactusy]

Assuming you found me at all, which wouldn't've been a guarantee.

[ichoosefight]

It would've taken a while. Which is one reason I was so annoyed.

[cactusy]

Why be annoyed about something you were only bluffing about doing?

[ichoosefight]

Oh I was gonna do that part. I just wasn't going to kill myself doing it.

[cactusy]

Oh, god.

[ichoosefight]

Let me guess: I'm a reckless idiot, and there's no way I know how to track a person in the forest without getting myself killed by either nature or our mysterious archers.

[cactusy]

You're a reckless idiot, and even if you're a good tracker, this place is big.