Palace Game 6/5

[fujimaru]

The Dreamer In The Grand Temple
Humanity Foundation Value: ????

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

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[survivaltricks]

. . .

I'm glad for that. She deserves that support.

[said quietly, but earnestly. and then, with an exhale—]

If I manage to find this Beast I, do you have any advice on how to deal with him?

[fujimaru]

"Don't fight him," she says firmly. "Not that I don't think you're weak or anything. But he's not the sort of thing that's meant to be fought by a single person. I don't care what your pride says, if you think it's a wise idea to die in this place, I'd have to knock you out right here."

[survivaltricks]

[a wry laugh, his lips curving upwards]

Based on what you've told me, I don't think I'd want to fight him, anyway.

. . . he may be the embodiment of humanity's sin, but even he has a right to exist.

[fujimaru]

She huffs a little, smiling as she does, then reaches to pat his cheek fondly again.

"No wonder she likes you," she says. "That's the sort of thing she'd say."

[survivaltricks]

[oH NO HE GOT MOMMED AGAIN. blinks a few times, but then huffs in that slightly-exasperated-but-not-really-all-that-bothered teenager way]

Mmm. . . maybe we're more alike than either of us think.

[polishing off the curry and placing his utensil aside, fingers linked and hands stretched in front of him]

Thank you for the food-- and the help. It was delicious.

The-- ah. The curry, not the help.

[fujimaru]

Unfortunately for him, you cannot escape Boudica motherhenning. But she laughs at his correction, waving a hand.

"Come back some other time! When things are a bit less what they are right now. You can meet some of the others."

[survivaltricks]

[standing up now, and giving her another polite bow of his head]

I will; I promise.

[AND THEN HE IS LEAVING, through a door that he didn't enter from]

[fujimaru]

Out in the stairwell, the only apparent way to go is up.