[At the admission of failure, her shoulders slump, like the cord holding her anger together just snapped. Her anger dissipates, replaced with... Not despair, exactly. Lamentation, sympathy, regret.]
Then as one failure to another, will you not heed my advice? I have led everyone I have loved to their deaths, but yours wished to save you. That is something to honor.
... And if all it is is amends, then you should be asking her what she wants. If nothing else, you have been given this time to do whatever you wish with. If you wish to woo her, that is your right. If you wish to ignore her to seek other paths, then I won't help you, but you are allowed.
Or you could train with her, instead. Perhaps if she becomes stronger here, she can overcome whatever killed her. Perhaps if you tell her her fate, she can avoid it. Perhaps if you become stronger here, you can go back with her and do something.
[His voice is small, all the frustration he's felt directed inward. He just sounds defeated. He can't meet her eyes, focusing on the ground and hugging his arm again.]
Weiss said the same thing. It's not... She deserves better. What I want doesn't matter.
[He's silent for a moment. It still takes a lot of effort to talk about what happened.] I think part of her already figured it out. We're almost from the same time. [Finally he does meet her eyes, hesitant and scared asking will lead to the same answers.] Would that work if we asked Crepe to help?
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Then as one failure to another, will you not heed my advice? I have led everyone I have loved to their deaths, but yours wished to save you. That is something to honor.
... And if all it is is amends, then you should be asking her what she wants. If nothing else, you have been given this time to do whatever you wish with. If you wish to woo her, that is your right. If you wish to ignore her to seek other paths, then I won't help you, but you are allowed.
Or you could train with her, instead. Perhaps if she becomes stronger here, she can overcome whatever killed her. Perhaps if you tell her her fate, she can avoid it. Perhaps if you become stronger here, you can go back with her and do something.
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[His voice is small, all the frustration he's felt directed inward. He just sounds defeated. He can't meet her eyes, focusing on the ground and hugging his arm again.]
Weiss said the same thing. It's not... She deserves better. What I want doesn't matter.
[He's silent for a moment. It still takes a lot of effort to talk about what happened.] I think part of her already figured it out. We're almost from the same time. [Finally he does meet her eyes, hesitant and scared asking will lead to the same answers.] Would that work if we asked Crepe to help?
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[Caster doesn't believe a fucking word of it, though.]
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Why can't she control them? Maybe if they would stop treating us like we're less important, we could help her train to control them.
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[She's about to comment on how the books said dangerous, out of control powers usually got their owners executed, but probably a bad idea.]
Crepe's library has more information.
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[He pauses, looking uncertain.]
Or I can, if you don't want to. [He was just a jerk.]
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I've read everything relevant in there already. And taking some time to read and cool your head would likely do wonders for you.
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I understand.