turbo heaven 🌼 fidelio

[outdistanced]

two tsuns walk into a bar

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w3, monday

[fending]

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the memory that plays across the mirrors this time is one that's both very personal and very painful, and feels all the more raw after last week's events. fidelio winces as soon as it starts, but lets it play as-is. ]

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[ my god. it's awful to see, naturally, and laurence wonders if he shouldn't be seeing it at all, but as terrible as it is, he doesn't look away. ]

People really can be awful.

[ hurting children like that. treating living people like nothing, less than they are. ]

...You guys - you always take care of each other that well?

[fending]

[ he takes a deep breath when it's over, then nods. ]

Most of our lives, each other was all we really had.

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Because you had to leave your friends behind, too, right?

[ friends that had been gracious enough to help them escape and find the help they needed. there could stand to be more people like that. ]

But you did say that's how good families are. At least you weren't totally alone.

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[ his memory of saying those words is a little hazy, but he stands by the sentiment... though he does wince at the part before that, about leaving their friends behind. ]

...Yeah. Wouldn't have lived nearly as long as we did otherwise.

[outdistanced]

[ winces as well. ]

You mentioned they were taking advantage of you before, but... I really had no idea how bad it was. It's seriously messed up that they'd pull shit like that.

[fending]

No reason for 'em not to when it's all sanctioned by the Crown Theocracy.

[ shakes his head. ]

At least that should be changing now, though whether it ends up changing for the better or worse remains to be seen.

[outdistanced]

For the better, I'd hope. And if not, someone still needs to step in to find a way to fix it.

[fending]

Well. Right now the options are more like, we get a king from a minority tribe who works on implementing changes, or we get one who sets a bunch of humans loose and razes the whole thing to the ground.

Technically both ways of achieving less discrimination. One a lot more insane than the other.

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[ it takes a second to parse what del means because “humans” still throws him off. ]

...There’s no way that’s really going to happen, though, right?

[ LIKE. WHAT. ]

[fending]

There's a real good chance of it, actually.

[outdistanced]

What the hell?! That sounds way too dangerous!