... You can stay in here for a little while. If you think you need to.
[ Not that hiding is going to solve the problem but hey! Yuuri solved all her problems for a year and a half by stubbornly pretending they didn't exist! It's fine! ]
He's going to find out eventually and there isn't much we can do about that, but I just... I don't want to see him kill you.
[ as much as she hates to admit it, it's not like he doesn't have a point. She doesn't know for sure just how Ardyn is going to react to Izunia being here but she can't help but shudder at the thought of what he might do were he ever to find out that Yuuri had been actively hiding him.
As heartless as it might make her, Yuuri doesn't particularly want to die for Izunia Lucia Caelum. He isn't the king she's kin and glaive to. ]
Then... how about this? There might be somewhere you can stay that'll be a little safer for you both if you don't mind the conditions.
There's another island out in the ocean here where a few people set up camp a little while ago -- in a desert. It's not the perfect place to stay but if you don't mind the sun and the sand, it should be safer. I'm not sure what it is about that island but being in the desert... It makes people better, somehow. Or at least less terrible.
[ she gives a shaky laugh, not that such a bad joke deserves it, but then stops for a moment and gives him a look of dead seriousness. ]
But don't ever, ever go over to the jungle. Especially if he's on the island too. It's... dangerous.
yuuri are you sending him straight into ardyn's lap right now
I'll see about taking you there myself, just to make sure.
[ make no mistake, Yuuri is going to do her best not to lose any sleep over Izunia Lucis Caelum but she can't pretend she wouldn't feel a little bad if he ran into trouble or the pointed ends of many, many swords on his first day here. ]
Please don't tell anyone any of what I've just told you. But especially not him.
[ she's been holding all her secrets so close to her chest since getting here. None of them know who she is, not really, and only a tiny handful of people know the kind of world she came from. It's only the fact that she feels Izunia, of all people, has the right to know them. ]
I'm sorry to ask you to lie for me like this. But I just... I don't think I can make myself answer any of the questions it would bring up.
[ It doesn't feel right for the first thing he does now, the first time he's Izunia again in so long, to be a lie of omission, even if it's for the better. ]
I might not have a choice eventually -- if anyone from home ever comes here, I'm sure it might come out. But for the time being, it's definitely less complicated this way.
[Girl you say that like he probably wouldn't have just gone right on introducing himself as Ardyn if she hadn't called his ass out and then told him an actual Ardyn was here.]
It's far from the worst thing I've done for the sake of family.
[ I can imagine, she almost says, but swallows the barb back. She's certainly not happy with him by any stretch of the word, but that seems pointlessly cruel and she can't make herself land a low blow like that. He already knows what mistakes he's made. And besides, he's probably going to do enough making up for it as soon as Ardyn gets within arms reach of him.
So instead she just nods and gives him a grim smile. ]
Then all I can really say is "good luck", isn't it? At the very least, he shouldn't be able to cause too much damage while we're here...
[Even if he can put it off for some time, a confrontation with the Ardyn here is inevitable eventually. Their fates and fuck-ups are too deeply intertwined.]
If he sees me, I'll try to draw him off, but if I can't... Focus on getting yourself and others out of danger. I used to call him 'Ardyn Lucis Collateral Damage' when we were about your age, and I can't imagine he's gotten any better.
You say that like I'm not going to be three islands away the instant I have reason to suspect the two of you are even on the same half of the island.
[ she enjoys being ALIVE, thank you very much.
but the grim little smile on her face sobers up a little as she carries on. ]
You don't have to worry. I'm not going to let anyone else get hurt by him, if I have anything to do with it. I'm not going to go out of my way to put myself in danger but I'm not going to just stand back and let him... happen to people if I can stop it.
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[ that is not even remotely a consolation and Yuuri does, to her credit, look a little embarrassed to have let that fall out of her mouth. ]
Not. Not that it makes dying like that any better, but at the very least you...
[ She trails off and just covers her face again. ]
I'm sorry...! I'm usually so much better at this but this is all... it's a bit much.
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[He's enough of a parent to spend a moment putting his own worries aside for a moment to reassure her.]
And... Honestly, that knowledge isn't particularly comforting. All it does is make me think of 'an eye for an eye.'
[Or a string of over the top executions for a string of over the top murders, more accurately.]
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[ Not that hiding is going to solve the problem but hey! Yuuri solved all her problems for a year and a half by stubbornly pretending they didn't exist! It's fine! ]
He's going to find out eventually and there isn't much we can do about that, but I just... I don't want to see him kill you.
[ blunt, and to the point. ]
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[He is probably more capable of defending himself than she is, after all.]
I don't especially want to die, either, but... What will be will be.
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[ as much as she hates to admit it, it's not like he doesn't have a point. She doesn't know for sure just how Ardyn is going to react to Izunia being here but she can't help but shudder at the thought of what he might do were he ever to find out that Yuuri had been actively hiding him.
As heartless as it might make her, Yuuri doesn't particularly want to die for Izunia Lucia Caelum. He isn't the king she's kin and glaive to. ]
Then... how about this? There might be somewhere you can stay that'll be a little safer for you both if you don't mind the conditions.
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Oh? I'd appreciate it, if that's the case.
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[ she gives a shaky laugh, not that such a bad joke deserves it, but then stops for a moment and gives him a look of dead seriousness. ]
But don't ever, ever go over to the jungle. Especially if he's on the island too. It's... dangerous.
yuuri are you sending him straight into ardyn's lap right now
[As though there's anything he can do, other than a) avoid him, b) get his ass soundly kicked.]
I'll definitely take a look at it, though.
she's doing her best you be nice to her
I'll see about taking you there myself, just to make sure.
[ make no mistake, Yuuri is going to do her best not to lose any sleep over Izunia Lucis Caelum but she can't pretend she wouldn't feel a little bad if he ran into trouble or the pointed ends of many, many swords on his first day here. ]
... just. Promise me something first, will you?
god NAO GET IN HERE
Re: god NAO GET IN HERE
[ she's been holding all her secrets so close to her chest since getting here. None of them know who she is, not really, and only a tiny handful of people know the kind of world she came from. It's only the fact that she feels Izunia, of all people, has the right to know them. ]
I'm sorry to ask you to lie for me like this. But I just... I don't think I can make myself answer any of the questions it would bring up.
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[You are family therefore you get first name basis now! Deal w/ it.]
This small omission will give me no difficulty, I assure you.
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[ It doesn't feel right for the first thing he does now, the first time he's Izunia again in so long, to be a lie of omission, even if it's for the better. ]
I might not have a choice eventually -- if anyone from home ever comes here, I'm sure it might come out. But for the time being, it's definitely less complicated this way.
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It's far from the worst thing I've done for the sake of family.
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So instead she just nods and gives him a grim smile. ]
Then all I can really say is "good luck", isn't it? At the very least, he shouldn't be able to cause too much damage while we're here...
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[Even if he can put it off for some time, a confrontation with the Ardyn here is inevitable eventually. Their fates and fuck-ups are too deeply intertwined.]
If he sees me, I'll try to draw him off, but if I can't... Focus on getting yourself and others out of danger. I used to call him 'Ardyn Lucis Collateral Damage' when we were about your age, and I can't imagine he's gotten any better.
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[ she enjoys being ALIVE, thank you very much.
but the grim little smile on her face sobers up a little as she carries on. ]
You don't have to worry. I'm not going to let anyone else get hurt by him, if I have anything to do with it. I'm not going to go out of my way to put myself in danger but I'm not going to just stand back and let him... happen to people if I can stop it.
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He rather is like a force of nature sometimes. 'Happen' is hardly the wrong word.
[He's smiling, faintly. What a good niece.]