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-5 Degrees ❅ [Video]

[In the middle of the night, your peaceful sleep may have been interrupted by the screamings of a pissed off lawyer.]

Hey!

[Lin had been comparatively easy to get along with lately, but, well... it doesn't seem like she's willing to be reasonable tonight.]

I was reading over that thing again-

[The newcomer's document. When she said she read it the first time, it was more like a... skim through. And the section about returning home never concerned her until now.]

Who says when you go back to where you came from, it's to the exact same place?! That's bullshit! Can any of you actually prove that?!

So how many of you have gotten out of here before, huh?! Answer me!

[Her lip twitches; she's having a hard time hiding just how upset she is.]

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[she doesn't want to snap, but oh she wants to.]

I returned for well, no more than a week? To resume my duties, and I was still in the same place I left. Nothing had changed. I truly had never left to my court.

[which is a good thing to her, because she can't just leave her position for the months she has been gone here.]

[Lin grits her teeth, her expression darkens into a glare.]

You're lying. You were here for months and not a single second had passed?!

Tell me the truth!

[Elizabeth doesn't react to the glare. She's rather mellow about everything now.]

I speak no lies. Not one second. When I left, I was kneeling in a church, and it was to that exact moment I returned to. In the same dress, even.

[Lin's bottom lip starts to quiver, but she bites down on it hard and focuses on keeping up her glare.]

Of course you'd say that. You've had it in for me ever since I got here! Forget it! I'll ask someone else!

I never 'had it in for you', you silly woman. When I 'have it in for people' they end up executed. [and she's not unaware of how much they like her here. But that was because she worked to be liked and loved, the same as ever.]

But I am telling no lies, I don't appreciate being called a liar either. I don't enjoy watching you suffer.

[As Lin is in an extraordinarily foul mood, there's a sarcastic look of enlightenment on her face as Elizabeth speaks.]

Of course! I forgot that only you had permission to murder.

[But the truth is Lin cannot tell whether or not Elizabeth is telling the truth or not. Part of her paranoid mind still believes the Queen was happy to see such a harsh punishment enacted on someone who had arrived barely alive to begin with, but now she isn't convinced. Ever since their conversation on the train, she hasn't been sure. Perhaps it was only her ugly boyfriend to blame- No, she shouldn't give the woman so much credit.

Something inside her snaps. Well, if she is doing this to laugh at her, Lin won't let it be fun! She takes a moment to turn the conversation to Private before straightening up and smiling.]

Since you so enjoy making my life unpleasant, I'll have you know that, according to you, once I'm pulled out of this god-forsaken rock, I'm back to being worm food! Dead as a doornail! All that God crap? Heaven, damnation? Never happened for me! Everything goes black, and... well, that's it!

I guess I shouldn't fret. Being dead isn't so bad. It's no worse than being unborn - or never existing at all.

What fun to think about, hmm? I think I'll leave you to bask in your satisfaction now.

Edited 2012-10-13 02:59 (UTC)

I never would actively seek to murder another here, I've said it many times, we are all we each other has -- and even if that means nothing to you, it means something to me.

And if you do not trust me, trust that no other would hurt you here, and would stop me.

[She grit her teeth at the words, but then her face falls at the rest of it. The shock is obvious, and there's not laughter, no smug satisfaction. She never truly wished anyone dead, not even Norfolk, not Mary of Guise who had tried to take hers.

She didn't wish Lin dead, just not so vile all the time to her.]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Mistress Lin. Truly. I take no satisfaction from your pain, I never have.

[and she doesn't have anything to say. So many that she truly cared about had already been taken, and it's not the first time she's heard this either. Shisui had told her much the same about where he was going back to.]

Maybe, maybe not. A lot of it depends on a certain person's mood.

[trolling? why yes.]

[Mayuzumi stops her crying long enough to reply back.]

What do you mean...?

Exactly what I mean. Leaving or not depends on a certain person's mood. Maybe mine, maybe someone else's. It's a 50/50 chance.

[None of this makes sense to her, but it's her only shot..]

Please tell me. What kind of "mood?" Which people...?

I said it. Maybe mine or maybe someone else's. I might be bored enough to try it.

["To try it?" Could there be a way?]

Just tell it to me straight! What do I need to do to go back HOME?

[Not to the Emergency Shelter, but home. Or at least back to the Shelter during any season that isn't Winter.]

Edited 2012-10-13 03:02 (UTC)

Just like last time, answer this question: What would you do if provided a way back home, even if it had a horrible outcome for everyone else? You wouldn't mind putting yourself over everyone here?

I haven't experienced it personally except when I went back for like ten minutes during one of Libitina's play-times. She put me right back where I was, same conditions and injuries, no time passes at home while we're here.

[Finally, someone she'd believe...]

She was only playing with you, though. It's not like you were one of those people who disappears at random and never comes back.

...Right?

[She speaks with a tone that makes it clear she expects him to agree with her.]

[Ahahahaha.]

...Not sure. I've been missing three months at home for everyone else.

Do you have to yell?!

[She looks a bit taken aback - is it that time already? She hadn't realized how late it was...]

Sorry! Sorry.

[It's early even for him, and he gets up at 4am 8(a GOD LIN.]

Tch. The hell's with you, you couldn't even wait until morning to ask?

I haven't experienced it, so I can't speak to that. I don't think anyone is likely to be able to "prove" it to your satisfaction, Mayuzumi-san.

It obviously bothers you a lot though...and I'm a good listener. I really have nothing to gain from anything you tell me, and I'm offering for nothing in return, that if you ever want to talk about it, and discuss your concerns, I'll listen.

[Blunt and blah-honest as ever. Oh Rae can read all the signs of the distress, even without Empathy.]

[There's a long sigh, that Lin tries to pass off as annoyed, but has a very distinctly upset rattle to it.]

You don't need to act like we're friends, but thank you.

It doesn't make sense at all that we'd return to the same place after so much time passes here! And if we forget everything, what was the point of being brought here?! I don't buy it...!

[Rather, she doesn't want to believe it.]

[Oh Rae knows, and is good at ignoring it.]

I didn't say we were friends--I wouldn't presume such with you Mayuzumi-san, unless you gave me an indication it were true. But I have always tried to be blunt and open with you on these things.

The point, given what we know of our captor, might be as simple as this---to her-we are toys. Beyond that, all we have is speculation.

[Still being blunt and honest here.]

The offer stands, for now and future though.

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