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halcyon days
[So, things were going fine- they were planning to counter this strange contest Esme had dropped in their laps. Kingslayer was willing, at least little, to talk to him again. He had recently been cleaned up by Ruin so no longer looked (or smelled) quite so feral. Lion was doing okay.
Lion is no longer doing okay. And can be found pacing the Executor House like his namesake. Occasionally stopping to write frantically on a piece of paper on the dining room table but never sitting down for long.
If anyone pauses to read it he won't stop them: it's three lists of names, each under an animal-based title: Blue Lions, Black Eagels, Golden Deer. Next to the Lions list, he has an arrow- Source of my name???? and more arrows pointed to the House Leader slot of both the Lions (`me`) and the Eagles ('other House Leader, can't remember them. Why? I can remember Claude but not them...`) and at the end of the Lions list (`4 others here, but can't remember them??? One was a retainer to me I think? And the other three are in a lot of memories- we were close???`)
And above all the lists, underlined and circled: Professor Byleth Eisner
He's having a bad time]
Lion is no longer doing okay. And can be found pacing the Executor House like his namesake. Occasionally stopping to write frantically on a piece of paper on the dining room table but never sitting down for long.
If anyone pauses to read it he won't stop them: it's three lists of names, each under an animal-based title: Blue Lions, Black Eagels, Golden Deer. Next to the Lions list, he has an arrow- Source of my name???? and more arrows pointed to the House Leader slot of both the Lions (`me`) and the Eagles ('other House Leader, can't remember them. Why? I can remember Claude but not them...`) and at the end of the Lions list (`4 others here, but can't remember them??? One was a retainer to me I think? And the other three are in a lot of memories- we were close???`)
And above all the lists, underlined and circled: Professor Byleth Eisner
He's having a bad time]
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[where did you get that from --]
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Yes.
[He doesn't remember the Flame Emperor's identity yet- but he knows now that Duscur was a plot of some sort, and that rage that took years to boil in his life has now returned in moments]
Not only that, but I have seen atrocities committed on others. Things no decent human being could see and not be overcome with rage. But we can't afford me remembering such things mid-battle and attacking wildly. Not after all the planning everyone has worked so hard on.
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Of course. We have to be calm and think about this, not rush in swinging. [hypocrisy, thy name is Wolfsbane] Though I must admit you're right, it'll probably come to blows eventually. Esme... She's got to have a power of her own, as the ruler of this level. Probably stronger than the average Executor.
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Part of me hopes she surrenders once he cut her off from her power but... someone willing to murder as brutally as she has is unlikely to do so.
...and part of me also hopes she doesn't for exactly that reason.
[He won't feel an ounce of guilt in taking her head]
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...in moderation.
[She's killed, but she isn't as detestable as the monsters he's just remembered- but it's a close thing]
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[Something doesn't sit right with her, but she just sighs and thinks.]
I'd rather make somebody suffer if they hurt me. It's something in here, something intense, and at times I don't know if it's what I truly feel or ought to.
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But I know that it's not 'proper' and it makes me feel guilty. But if that's true shouldn't thinking about it at all make me feel that way? I'm not sure. In that at least you're not alone.
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[Wolfsbane shakes her head.]
I shouldn't be discussing this anyway, it isn't as if it matters. We should be taking her down, and anyone else like her. And whatever Ernesta did to me, whyever I started to hate her so much it burned, and whatever happened in your life, that's the same too, isn't it?
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If you hated this Ernesta so much, she must have done some horrific crime against you- such rage never comes from nothing.
[You sure, Lion, you sure]
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