[Ah. Tools will never be discarded so long as there's a use for them, especially rare ones capable of incredible feats. (Is it coincidence or as designed, that it always tends to veer towards one's capacity for destruction?) Sinners have no right to rest anyway, no rest for the wicked as the age-old saying goes.
It won't be quiet, and it won't be peaceful.
She did confess as much, and it's the truth. They just met, hardly know a thing about each other. Will Horos be worse than what Carmine went through before, or better? As much as the question itself is merely splitting semantics, the only insurance about this world and its Pleroma vs Kenoma conflict is that it will continue raging. And as long as there will be war, as long as they must continue fighting...]
Would you like to sit up and get dressed, first?
[The question is soft, quiet. She's... stalling, isn't she. Of all the things... Ciel's hold on the other woman is no less careful, as if she's handling something so fragile it could break without a moment's notice. In a way, it's not far from the truth. She doesn't think about how this may be the first embrace she's willingly given since awakening to these strange lands. She doesn't think about how it's been four or five months she's been here, and all the lies she's been telling others including herself have only continued piling up. She doesn't think of the blood and the resentment she's further accumulated either, a few more drops of it all into the bucket would easily blend in with all the rest anyway.
She is going to lie to this woman. She is going to make her suffer more than she's already had. And filing it under "just Kenoma work" would be nothing more than a shallow excuse: she's fully conscious of her actions, she's doing this out of her own free will.
There's no point thinking too hard about it. Only a few more steps, now. She'll... work harder, stay at Carmine's side once they get back for as long as needed, also fetch Charles and introduce him to her. So that after the Kenoma's essence settles, she can at least go meet the children right away. It's the least that she can do, once the toll of giving in to despair has been fully paid.]
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It won't be quiet, and it won't be peaceful.
She did confess as much, and it's the truth. They just met, hardly know a thing about each other. Will Horos be worse than what Carmine went through before, or better? As much as the question itself is merely splitting semantics, the only insurance about this world and its Pleroma vs Kenoma conflict is that it will continue raging. And as long as there will be war, as long as they must continue fighting...]
Would you like to sit up and get dressed, first?
[The question is soft, quiet. She's... stalling, isn't she. Of all the things... Ciel's hold on the other woman is no less careful, as if she's handling something so fragile it could break without a moment's notice. In a way, it's not far from the truth. She doesn't think about how this may be the first embrace she's willingly given since awakening to these strange lands. She doesn't think about how it's been four or five months she's been here, and all the lies she's been telling others including herself have only continued piling up. She doesn't think of the blood and the resentment she's further accumulated either, a few more drops of it all into the bucket would easily blend in with all the rest anyway.
She is going to lie to this woman. She is going to make her suffer more than she's already had. And filing it under "just Kenoma work" would be nothing more than a shallow excuse: she's fully conscious of her actions, she's doing this out of her own free will.
There's no point thinking too hard about it. Only a few more steps, now. She'll... work harder, stay at Carmine's side once they get back for as long as needed, also fetch Charles and introduce him to her. So that after the Kenoma's essence settles, she can at least go meet the children right away. It's the least that she can do, once the toll of giving in to despair has been fully paid.]