-5 Degrees ❅ [Video]

[and_my_pickaxe]

[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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[and_my_pickaxe]

[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!

[1mistress_nomaster]

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.

[Private]

[and_my_pickaxe]

[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.

[Private]

[1mistress_nomaster]

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.]