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[psychedelica]

[ The main reason they're all together is because they have to figure out some sort of plan. Time is clearly running out, and, to be honest, so is Hikage's sanity. Feeling himself slowly chipped away is a chillingly familiar sensation, and he almost welcomes it for the escape from reality it offers.

But he doesn't, because he wants to be with them. And that's the other reason they're here in his and Steph's room. He's afraid that if he's away from them, he'll forget the way he felt when they first confided in him - the happiness he's trying so hard to preserve now.

That said, he looks considerably haggard, and he doesn't say anything right away; he simply looks between the two of them, waiting for someone to say something, anything that might give him a little bit of hope to hang onto. ]

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[psychedelica]

... I didn't say that.

[ maybe he is, though. why didn't he get to go!! he wants to go on cool adventures with her. ]

Take us next time.

[ he feels a little more normal again, talking to them like this... it's strange. ]

[axilium]

Um, how about no one here have any more cool-but-also-probably-deadly adventures?

[vigilantics]

[ she looks like she's about to respond, but then she stops. when she thinks about it, the two people she even went on those adventures with are fane and varian; one died this week and the other will tomorrow.

steph shakes her head to snap out of it. ]

They're not that bad.

[psychedelica]

[ ... Belph is right, really. Hikage's expression sombers somewhat - if it's possible for it to get more somber. ]

If they weren't that bad, I wouldn't have to nag you so much. [ just saying. ] ... Take your own advice, Belph. Don't put yourself in danger with this plan.

[axilium]

[things belph will not say out loud: if they can get someone to switch to the villain faction, it sure won't matter if he dies!!]

Don't worry. I intend to win this.

[vigilantics]

[ if he says that then she'd murder him!!! ]

We're going to win this.

[ she knows it might not have been a deliberate choice of words, but she also knows belph. ]

[psychedelica]

[ hikage would also murder him BELPH!!!

Hikage just silently nods in agreement, staring at him seriously. How many times does he have to offer his help to Belph before he'll accept it? ]

If you die in the process, we're not winning.

[axilium]

[he just smiles. ye of little faith, you two! gosh.]

[vigilantics]

... Belph, please don't do anything without telling me first.