scary: laudna

[turbulency]

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[undread]

[another awkward smile.]

I do.

[turbulency]

[ okay ]

Friend of yours?

[undread]

It's complicated.

[but it doesn't sound like it is, exactly.]

I've known her for a very long time. She isn't very nice, much of the time. I suppose she wasn't for you.

[turbulency]

She tried to use us to escape death.

Is that what she's doing with you?

[undread]

[smiling...]

She's quite clever at that. She always has a plan.

[turbulency]

[ hm ]

Would you hate us, if we killed her?

[undread]

[lacing her fingers together and peering at him.]

How would you propose to do that?

[turbulency]

[ laudna please answer a question ]

I'm not. I doubt we did, if she's as clever as you say, but we tried.

[undread]

[okay. the smile stays.]

I doubt you did away with her forever. My friends killed her once, too. But... no, I wouldn't hate you for that.

[turbulency]

So you don't care for her.

[undread]

[hmm. sort of a complicated expression, but mostly angry.]

No. I don't care for her.

[turbulency]

[ ah ]

But you're trapped with her. In some way.

[undread]

[ah.]

Yes. I'm trapped with her and she is trapped with me, and it seems neither of us can exist without the other.

[turbulency]

And that's what you want?

Or does that not matter.