[Text: Marlene]

[taking_names]

[more artifacts from week 32 sorry!]

So I assume by now you heard what I did and think I am the worst person on the continent.

If that is somehow not the case please let me know, otherwise my plan is to hide from you forever if that's all right.

Comments

[marleneonthewall]

It's probably best if you just let her be. Getting killed isn't the sort of thing you forgive easy.

Don't forgive yourself for it easy, either. That was a monstrous thing to do to someone.

[taking_names]

Should I be angrier at myself?

[is that voluntary?]

[marleneonthewall]

Yeah, for being a bloody idiot!

Honestly, you haven't got to KILL someone to beat them at something.

[taking_names]

That became very obvious to me afterward.

[marleneonthewall]

Good! Cause if you do it again I'm not going to feel even a little bad for you.

[taking_names]

[trying to beat himself up over it sounds difficult... and pointless

he regrets it, and he still doesn't quite understand why he did it, but it never quite becomes guilt

but this seems like a bad thing to point out]

Thank you for not hating me for it.

If you don't, that is.

[marleneonthewall]

Oi, does Duncan know it was you?

[taking_names]

Who's that?

[marleneonthewall]

Her brother. Heimdall.

[she just thinks he doesn't know Heimdall's real name, or forgot it]

[taking_names]

Oh-- yes, he knows. He killed me and brought me back, that's why I'm so much calmer and full of perspective now.

[marleneonthewall]

You're joking!

He didn't tell me that part either!

[taking_names]

I guess he's been busy curing diseases and such.

[marleneonthewall]

I was with him for the whole first night and all he ever told me was the parts about his sister dying and him resurrecting her!

That bloody bastard, was he scared of how I'd react?

[taking_names]

He is a mystery to me.

I thought he would tell you right away so you'd know I was awful and you should avoid me.

[marleneonthewall]

Maybe he didn't tell me so I could make up my own mind, then...?

[taking_names]

You can't make up your mind without knowing what happened!


How should he know that would be a good idea? I could have told you all kinds of lies!

[marleneonthewall]

You're right.

More likely he just didn't want to talk about it right then and then forgot.

[taking_names]

He's turning out surprisingly human.

[marleneonthewall]

Cor, it's like he's been human all this time.

[taking_names]

I know, right!

[marleneonthewall]

He really killed you, though?

That's difficult to imagine.

[taking_names]

I challenged him to a swordfight and at the end he used a paralysis potion and then shot me.

If I had met him under other conditions I think I'd have trouble picturing it too.

[marleneonthewall]

[oh.]

[she...gave him a lot of sword advice. including helping him buy one. :(;;; ]

[wait though if nova challenged him to a swordfight...]

Were you hoping to kill him too?

[taking_names]

The other way around. That was my other terrible idea that day. I got over it before I actually made it to the Dark.

[marleneonthewall]

Why?