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voice; un: lowell
cw: grief, talk of death, suicidal thoughts, language
[ The feed clicks on to ragged breathing, too close to the Omni ]
Who the hell killed Flynn? Some guy with a light sword. Give me names.
[ Yuri's voice is low and rough, somehow both heated and emotionless. His emotional state has been degrading since Flynn's omen led him to Flynn's corpse. He growls and there's rustling over the Omni ]
If you killed him, be at the Gate at midnight.
[ The feed clicks on to ragged breathing, too close to the Omni ]
Who the hell killed Flynn? Some guy with a light sword. Give me names.
[ Yuri's voice is low and rough, somehow both heated and emotionless. His emotional state has been degrading since Flynn's omen led him to Flynn's corpse. He growls and there's rustling over the Omni ]
If you killed him, be at the Gate at midnight.
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[ He's more than sorry. He's furious, angry at Flynn, for fighting a fight he couldn't win, at himself for not being there, and mostly at this bastard who killed him. His hand curls into a fist so tight that it hurts, but that pain is grounding. It's grounding and he needs to focus, to find him ]
I don't know. I wasn't here, but a woman told me that a guy with a light sword killed him. There can't be that many of them.
[ Right? Well, if there are-- he'll deal with that when the moment comes. ]
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[Which it might not be,"light sword" is pretty broad, and this is a big city.]
...But going after them isn't a smart idea. If this is anything like the dream, they might not have even been in their right mind when they did it. And even if they were, what would attacking them solve? You kill them, they kill you, either way, there's an extra dead body- two if you somehow kill each other. It won't bring him back or undo any of this.
[Varian's all too familiar with revenge at this point, he doesn't want to encourage it now, especially not with the limited knowledge they have.]
There has to be a better solution than just adding to the body pile.
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It won't solve anything. Varian sounds a lot like Flynn here, says a lot of the things that Flynn would say, and it breaks through his thoughts for a moment. Maybe he shouldn't-- doesn't have to-- could be okay, without hurting anyone.
And he doesn't want to. He does, but ]
I want answers.
Why did he do it?
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[The why is the real question- one that could have any number of answers. Maul or Savage could just easily as kill someone because they felt like it, but the others? He doesn't know. He'd like to think Maul learned better after the last time this happened.]
I don't know. In the dream, sometimes our mental states were...altered. We- it'd turn us against friends, strangers- anyone. Honestly, the why might even be 'because the town made them do it'.
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That's not a damn good reason. He's, he's--
[ Yuri's voice breaks and he pulls the Omni away from himself for a long moment, trying to get himself under control. He hasn't cried in years, but it's there, just behind his eyes, and being angry is easier than being sad ]
He wouldn't go down like this. He can't.
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[He hears Yuri's voice break and his heart wrenches. This is never easy for anyone to go through. The fact nothing can fix this kind of thing is a hard lesson to learn. ]
I'm sorry. Really, I am. I don't know if... back in Deerington? We'd come back to life. I don't know if that works here or not. I don't...want to get your hopes up. But he might not stay dead.
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But he doesn't say that. He doesn't argue because it's pointless. Flynn is gone. ]
Yeah. Yeah, some guy said that, too. But he looks pretty damn dead. He's already-- [ He grits his teeth, wanting to punch something, anything ] he's already rotting. He's dead.
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Yeah, death happened a lot in the dream- we came back within-
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Um. What do you mean rotting? His- his body didn't vanish?
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[ It feels like a lifetime ago, now. ]
He's at our house. His omen disappeared. It's, it's, [ He doesn't know where he's going with this. Maybe he should hold a funeral or something. ]
We burn bodies, back home. I might, I should do that.
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Damnit.
[He blinks, looking back at the screen. Right, right.]
Okay that's- not what used to happen. It...look, before you do that, can you get in contact with a friend of mine? Eddie Kaspbrak. I'm not...not trying to stop you from grieving, but we've never had that happen to a body here before. Just- just to check. In case burning him might...uh stop him. Coming back.
[He doesn't know if it would or not. He has no damn clue, but he knows bodies are extremely out of his wheelhouse. He doesn't even know how much they are in Eddie's, but he has a far better chance of figuring out what the hell is going on than anyone else here.]
He'll be able to help you. He's a good guy.
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[ Yuri's voice sounds dead when he says it. It's not about Eddie. It's about the insurmountable task ahead of him: dealing with Flynn's body. Targeting his anger at someone let him forget that that was something he had to do. It's lying there in his house, waiting for him.
Maybe Eddie can deal with it, and Yuri can just... he doesn't know. Go fight some monsters or something. That'll help. Except that the monsters are people, and he doesn't want to kill people. Not if he's doing all this to honor Flynn's memory. If he's doing that, he has to do things right. ]
I'll do that.
[ He'd better come back. He'll come back. But if he doesn't, if he doesn't come back...
He can't think about it. ]
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Okay. I'm...I'm really sorry. Is there anything I can do to help?
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[ Descriptive. He doesn't want more people to die like this, doesn't want more people to have to suffer like this.
And if he doesn't kill the guy, and he kills someone else-- Yuri wouldn't forgive himself. ]
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[He's...not sure how to feel about that? Relief? A little guilt for considering it at all? Probably a mixture of both.]
Thanks, I'll keep clear. Uh... try to take it easy as you can, okay? The...waiting for them to come back is rough.
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[ That it isn't Maul. He'll figure out the guy's name, then. ]
Yeah. Sure. It's... [ What is it? He doesn't know. He doesn't know what to do or how to feel. He just knows that Flynn is gone, and all these people are being nice and that isn't really what he wants right now. He wants to punch something. ] Thanks.
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No problem. Uh...let me know if you need anything, okay? I... I don't know how much help I can be, but if I can, I'll do it.
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Yeah. I will.
[ And he has nothing left to say. He won't reach out, that's not the sort of person he is, but he'll try his best not to do something stupid, so he's still around if Flynn does come back.
With that, he cuts the feed. ]