My sphere is a bit small, and the reason why I can't tell you is related to teams, otherwise I wouldn't mind sharing.
[but he won't go into further detail than that - soo-won is fine with abandoning personal loyalties in the name of the bigger picture, but that's unfortunately a difference between them.]
Then if you can.... don't spread it much further than this - at least, not until we collect the information that should've been generated this past weekend, and... whatever is generated from this week.
I don't want anyone to start killing out of some belief that they're saving people, but it'll only result in more lives being taken than necessary. Based on the current numbers of deaths so far, at least one team must have reached the threshold of two by now - but it's unclear which, because we don't have the teams of Yoshizawa's killer, Emet-Selch's, or Virid's. But with seven Thursday deaths, that's simply how the math manifests.
[if knowing who she heard about the message from wouldn't out their team to soo-won, she's not sure how knowing who he heard about it from would out their teams to her. she looks for a few moments like she wants to ask, but ultimately, she lets it go.
instead - ]
I wasn't planning to. I only brought it to you because we said we'd both be looking into the matter. [wow you can tell i need to sleep because i was just like "emet-selch isn't dead?? we know yona killed virid??] If I hear it from anyone else, and they tell me it's okay to say who I heard it from, I'll let you know.
[explaining it further will unfortunately just lead yona to an answer, and so.
here we are. he moves on easily enough!]
Mm, that's fine. While I haven't been able to confirm anything this week.... My belief is that aside from the assignments to handle the splintering nova, we'll likely need to ensure that each team commits at least one additional kill if they wish to revive members of their team. Not to say 'it is good that there have been two bodies since the beginning' but - at the very least, we are not particularly behind either.
I think that the nova splintering assignments have been progressing through the Team Leaders gradually as well. We can confirm that this week, hopefully.
It sounds like some teams are beginning to gather together as well.... so hopefully if they keep finding each other, it'll be easier to coordinate.
[she gestures for emphasis, and inadvertently pops a conveniently-placed memory bubble that's just drifting by.
they're in a palace. more specifically, yona is being carried through a palace over the shoulder of a dark-clad goon. she's struggling, but her ankles are shackled, so she's not able to kick out at the guy who has her as much as she'd like.
suddenly, there's a shout -
"Yo-nyan!!"
there's a man, down there. yona recognizes him. two men - she recognizes them both. so does the creepy-looking man in a cloak, who's directing the movements of the person who's carting yona over his shoulder like she's a sack of potatoes:
"Damn Kouren... to track us here! Hurry!"
her captor and the cloaked creep hurry down the hall, yona still struggling as she shouts - "Algira! Vold!" - but between their frantic rush to get away from the men pursuing them and her wriggling, a brazier is knocked over. with a fwoosh, the fire spreads, nearly causing algira to fall from where he's attempting to scale the side of the building.
"We came to save you! The dragons and Yoon, they're all free!" "Really?!" "Yeah! And now, we're all here to save you! Hak-nyan's come, too! He'll be right here! So... go home with him!"
yona's struggling begins anew - she fights harder, like she's been revitalized just by hearing that. aer captor snarls for her to stop fighting, then throws a dagger at Algira - who starts to fall, but is just barely caught by vold, who throws a whole sword into the back of the man holding her.
"Princess Yona... Please, run..."
vold's grip on the palace railing loosens, and he and algira both fall. the man with the sword in his back hits the ground, and yona falls with a thud.
she wants to run. she starts to move her feet, trying to get up - but she can't. the shackles around her ankles are too tight. she can't run anywhere like this.
it's warm, and smoky. she looks up - and is greeted with the sight of flames engulfing the palace. the fire is spreading, too quickly to outrun like this, and in front of her, there's the face of that cloaked man, looming, his lips stretched into a sick, deranged smile.
"Call the dragons."
yona grits her teeth.
"They'll come running to you, won't they? Princess Yona, you can't even stand. So you must hurry and all for help."
taken on their own, the words might sound concerned - if they were coming from anyone else. if they weren't spoken in that sickly obsessive tone of voice, more taunting than anything.
"Tell them to become dragons and come flying to your side, just like before! You must call them. You'll be burned to a crisp."
around them, the fire rages. the cloaked man pays it no mind, insistently continuing to speak.
"Now, hurry, hurry!! Hurry!!!" "I will not."
yona's voice sounds weak, and she can't raise her head. she doesn't have the strength.
"They can't fly to my side like you're saying. And even if they could, I wouldn't call them." "Why?!" "Even if I told you... you wouldn't understand."
her vision is going blurry. it's hard to breathe, hard to see. her hands are going numb, and...
I'm... losing consciousness...
...then, everything goes black. the memory ends there. her canonpoint is literally before she confessed to hak i won't fucking have it.
anyway, that might explain why she arrived here with burns!]
soo-won thinks about how he recognizes the face of that man - brief as their interaction had been. the insistence of the dragons didn't stop, did it? so that is the greed of those who crave having the holy and the divine solve all their problems.
against his own realization, his fingers curl inward, nails pressing sharply against his own palm.
should he have just removed that man earlier - permanently?
though he seems to realize the violence in his own thoughts - odd, the combination of yona in danger and the spite toward the divine truly is powerful, he thinks - and he immediately uncurls his fingers.]
... again, is it?
[voice soft.]
That is from your conflict - with the Tully tribe to the north.
she knows the memory has to be real (most of the others she's seen from the bubbles, she can recall, after all - but it's so strange, only recognizing it from having witnessed it like this. even now, the details are escaping her. they just don't seem to stick.]
...I never really have a good time when the Kai Empire is involved.
[the human trafficking in awa, hiyou's nadai suppliers, li hazara and his involvement with the previous fire tribe general, the soldiers in sen province...
[and her father just... let them have that influence, for years. if he'd ever done anything about it, couldn't it have been nipped in the bud before it ever got so bad?
...ah, she feels guilty for thinking that. but it's the truth. if she's been able to help cut off their influence, with her small group - how much more could her father have done, but simply chosen not to?]
I don't plan to let them keep having that kind of influence. [...] I'm sure you don't, either.
[and that much, he sounds certain about. there's a sigh.]
They've acted aggressively toward Kouka because they could, but it's evident that the land we'd given them in the past wasn't enough to control their pursuit of our resources or what they want from our people.
[or in some cases, what people they will literally take aboard ships]
So it's been a matter of bolstering our strength, so they do not think they could easily invade, and then how to demonstrate our strength against them without unnecessary sacrifice.
You'd think they'd have learned from Li Hazara's example.
[that stupid jerk tried enticing a general into being a traitor and it still didn't work out for them!
...well. maybe all that taught them was to rely on their own might.]
...but if I'm up north there, with them - I'm not going to let them do whatever they want to Kouka. Even if I can't remember it. I know that much about myself.
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My sphere is a bit small, and the reason why I can't tell you is related to teams, otherwise I wouldn't mind sharing.
[but he won't go into further detail than that - soo-won is fine with abandoning personal loyalties in the name of the bigger picture, but that's unfortunately a difference between them.]
Then if you can.... don't spread it much further than this - at least, not until we collect the information that should've been generated this past weekend, and... whatever is generated from this week.
I don't want anyone to start killing out of some belief that they're saving people, but it'll only result in more lives being taken than necessary. Based on the current numbers of deaths so far, at least one team must have reached the threshold of two by now - but it's unclear which, because we don't have the teams of Yoshizawa's killer, Emet-Selch's, or Virid's. But with seven Thursday deaths, that's simply how the math manifests.
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instead - ]
I wasn't planning to. I only brought it to you because we said we'd both be looking into the matter. [wow you can tell i need to sleep because i was just like "emet-selch isn't dead?? we know yona killed virid??] If I hear it from anyone else, and they tell me it's okay to say who I heard it from, I'll let you know.
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here we are. he moves on easily enough!]
Mm, that's fine. While I haven't been able to confirm anything this week.... My belief is that aside from the assignments to handle the splintering nova, we'll likely need to ensure that each team commits at least one additional kill if they wish to revive members of their team. Not to say 'it is good that there have been two bodies since the beginning' but - at the very least, we are not particularly behind either.
I think that the nova splintering assignments have been progressing through the Team Leaders gradually as well. We can confirm that this week, hopefully.
It sounds like some teams are beginning to gather together as well.... so hopefully if they keep finding each other, it'll be easier to coordinate.
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[she gestures for emphasis, and inadvertently pops a conveniently-placed memory bubble that's just drifting by.
they're in a palace. more specifically, yona is being carried through a palace over the shoulder of a dark-clad goon. she's struggling, but her ankles are shackled, so she's not able to kick out at the guy who has her as much as she'd like.
suddenly, there's a shout -
"Yo-nyan!!"
there's a man, down there. yona recognizes him. two men - she recognizes them both. so does the creepy-looking man in a cloak, who's directing the movements of the person who's carting yona over his shoulder like she's a sack of potatoes:
"Damn Kouren... to track us here! Hurry!"
her captor and the cloaked creep hurry down the hall, yona still struggling as she shouts - "Algira! Vold!" - but between their frantic rush to get away from the men pursuing them and her wriggling, a brazier is knocked over. with a fwoosh, the fire spreads, nearly causing algira to fall from where he's attempting to scale the side of the building.
"We came to save you! The dragons and Yoon, they're all free!"
"Really?!"
"Yeah! And now, we're all here to save you! Hak-nyan's come, too! He'll be right here! So... go home with him!"
yona's struggling begins anew - she fights harder, like she's been revitalized just by hearing that. aer captor snarls for her to stop fighting, then throws a dagger at Algira - who starts to fall, but is just barely caught by vold, who throws a whole sword into the back of the man holding her.
"Princess Yona... Please, run..."
vold's grip on the palace railing loosens, and he and algira both fall. the man with the sword in his back hits the ground, and yona falls with a thud.
she wants to run. she starts to move her feet, trying to get up - but she can't. the shackles around her ankles are too tight. she can't run anywhere like this.
it's warm, and smoky. she looks up - and is greeted with the sight of flames engulfing the palace. the fire is spreading, too quickly to outrun like this, and in front of her, there's the face of that cloaked man, looming, his lips stretched into a sick, deranged smile.
"Call the dragons."
yona grits her teeth.
"They'll come running to you, won't they? Princess Yona, you can't even stand. So you must hurry and all for help."
taken on their own, the words might sound concerned - if they were coming from anyone else. if they weren't spoken in that sickly obsessive tone of voice, more taunting than anything.
"Tell them to become dragons and come flying to your side, just like before! You must call them. You'll be burned to a crisp."
around them, the fire rages. the cloaked man pays it no mind, insistently continuing to speak.
"Now, hurry, hurry!! Hurry!!!"
"I will not."
yona's voice sounds weak, and she can't raise her head. she doesn't have the strength.
"They can't fly to my side like you're saying. And even if they could, I wouldn't call them."
"Why?!"
"Even if I told you... you wouldn't understand."
her vision is going blurry. it's hard to breathe, hard to see. her hands are going numb, and...
I'm... losing consciousness...
...then, everything goes black. the memory ends there. her canonpoint is literally before she confessed to hak i won't fucking have it.
anyway, that might explain why she arrived here with burns!]
...that memory again...
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that explains the burns, doesn't it?
soo-won thinks about how he recognizes the face of that man - brief as their interaction had been. the insistence of the dragons didn't stop, did it? so that is the greed of those who crave having the holy and the divine solve all their problems.
against his own realization, his fingers curl inward, nails pressing sharply against his own palm.
should he have just removed that man earlier - permanently?
though he seems to realize the violence in his own thoughts - odd, the combination of yona in danger and the spite toward the divine truly is powerful, he thinks - and he immediately uncurls his fingers.]
... again, is it?
[voice soft.]
That is from your conflict - with the Tully tribe to the north.
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she knows the memory has to be real (most of the others she's seen from the bubbles, she can recall, after all - but it's so strange, only recognizing it from having witnessed it like this. even now, the details are escaping her. they just don't seem to stick.]
...the Tully tribe?
[that
doesn't ring a bell at all.]
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... I see. So that's what you can't recall.
I simply saw the situation in which you received your burns - though you'll likely forget it soon.
It sounds like you had a difficult time in the Kai Empire but... it is ahead of my time, and so I do not know the details of it.
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...I never really have a good time when the Kai Empire is involved.
[the human trafficking in awa, hiyou's nadai suppliers, li hazara and his involvement with the previous fire tribe general, the soldiers in sen province...
ugh! just. ugh.]
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Mm. You wouldn't. Their influence in Kouka has rarely been a prosperous thing for our nation....
[and so it reminds him why he has to go back
what is left for him to handle, in the time that he has]
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[and her father just... let them have that influence, for years. if he'd ever done anything about it, couldn't it have been nipped in the bud before it ever got so bad?
...ah, she feels guilty for thinking that. but it's the truth. if she's been able to help cut off their influence, with her small group - how much more could her father have done, but simply chosen not to?]
I don't plan to let them keep having that kind of influence. [...] I'm sure you don't, either.
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I don't.
[and that much, he sounds certain about. there's a sigh.]
They've acted aggressively toward Kouka because they could, but it's evident that the land we'd given them in the past wasn't enough to control their pursuit of our resources or what they want from our people.
[or in some cases, what people they will literally take aboard ships]
So it's been a matter of bolstering our strength, so they do not think they could easily invade, and then how to demonstrate our strength against them without unnecessary sacrifice.
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[that stupid jerk tried enticing a general into being a traitor and it still didn't work out for them!
...well. maybe all that taught them was to rely on their own might.]
...but if I'm up north there, with them - I'm not going to let them do whatever they want to Kouka. Even if I can't remember it. I know that much about myself.