[redactable] catchall for virid

[dawnblushed]

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[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.

[favourable]

[...

he doesn't know what to say to that.]

[dawnblushed]

...sorry.

[maybe she shouldn't have said that.]

[favourable]

... Why are you apologizing?

[dawnblushed]

[...she doesn't know, exactly.

for not being able to figure it out sooner? for not being able to help him? he probably burned a lot of bridges with what happened with pikachu - if she'd been a little faster, maybe she could have prevented that. maybe it would be easier for people to accept what he was saying, if they were to hear that what he did was supposed to help.

but maybe, also for...]

I'm sorry that you felt like you were alone.