[redactable] catchall for virid

[dawnblushed]

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[favourable]

[a scoff.]

Who would I want to help back home? They can all die too, for all I care.

[dawnblushed]

[hm.]

...so you wanted to help someone here.

[favourable]

[he doesn't say anything.]

[dawnblushed]

...how was that helping, Virid?

[favourable]

[he shakes his head, slowly.]

... Saying too much might make them a target. [and even virid can feel some sense of loyalty.] But I don't disagree with their idea of justice.

[...]

You should be careful, Yona. It doesn't matter if it's the Leaders or the other participants--even if most of them are telling the truth, it only takes one of them to be lying for everything to go wrong. And I don't mean just me.

[dawnblushed]

...

[is that so. yona falls silent, thinking that over, but eventually, she looks up again and meets his eyes.]

What would you have done, if you weren't caught? Would you have... helped... again?

[favourable]

Well, not getting caught was the idea. A lot of you really came close to getting rid of that man with the pointy ears instead.

[virid framed poor rufus and never bothered to learn his name.]

I don't know. Maybe if they'd asked it of me again.

[dawnblushed]

[Virid please. Yona's expression flickers a little at that.]

His name is Rufus.

[...but she's trying really, really hard to keep herself calm, so she takes a breath so she doesn't snap at him again. Virid was her friend, too.

Or at least, she thought so.]

Can you tell me... since they won't be able to ask you again, do you think they'll... ask someone else?

[favourable]

This is exactly why I don't want to say who they are--you're assuming they're the enemy, but they might not be.

[dawnblushed]

I'm not assuming that. I just want to know what to expect.

[favourable]

[he shrugs.]

If they weren't lying to me, then they should be okay now. But if they were telling the truth, then someone else will probably strike.

[dawnblushed]

...so, the person who asked you for help shouldn't need help again, but someone else might?

[just to make sure i'm parsing this correctly]

[favourable]

Well, I don't know anything about what might motivate the others.

But the one counting on me did.

[dawnblushed]

[...well that's

concerning.]

I see. ...can I ask what it was that motivated you? Did you... just want to be helpful, or was it something else?

[favourable]

They expected something of me, and just me. [and that means something to him.] And it's not like I had much to lose. I didn't want to be caught, but it doesn't really change anything even if I die.

[dawnblushed]

Yes, it does!

[that comes out a little more sharply than she intends.]

If you die, you won't be here anymore!

[favourable]

And?

[dawnblushed]

Your friends will miss you...

[favourable]

[he scoffs.]

What friends?

[dawnblushed]

[oh.]

...I'll miss you.

[1/2]

[favourable]

[...]

[favourable]

[he looks away.]

You'd be one of the only ones.

[dawnblushed]

[damn it. she looks away, too, and wipes at her eyes. she was trying to stay calm, but she's never been very good at that.]

That won't make me miss you any less.

[favourable]

[...

honestly, virid didn't think there would be anyone who would cry over him—not back home, and not here.]

... You don't even know me.

[dawnblushed]

Not as well as I would have liked.

[she can admit that.]

But I wanted to.