scary: karlach

[turbulency]

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w4, FRIDAY

[ablazement]

[where is geto she is coming to find him

i'm sorry it very clearly looks like she's been crying and she doesn't even bother hiding it.]

[turbulency]

[ He's probably sitting by the lake at the camp, but he'll glance up when he hears her. He looks the same as always, just wearied. ]

Karlach.

[ablazement]

Hey, Suguru.

[she comes to sit next to him, pulling her knees to her chest, hiding her face. she doesn't have any hopeful words today, which. is maybe telling.]

[turbulency]

[ He leans against her, quiet. ]

Did you... see anything?

[ablazement]

No.

[she carefully rests her head against his.]

Didn't see anything at all.

[turbulency]

Neither did I.

[ . . . ]

It's tiring.

[ablazement]

[exhausted.]

We've got more to do tomorrow. [...] Another day of watching all our friends lose their minds to a monster.

[turbulency]

I really don't want to. Catching killers doesn't make anything better.

But I guess people will want to know what happened.

[ablazement]

It makes it so they don't have to do it again.

[her voice breaks a little there.]

... But yeah. Closure isn't always worth it.

[turbulency]

[ Looking at her, thoughtful. ]

True. But they might still have a while before they do again.

[ablazement]

And then they've got to live with it.

Sort of cruel, if you ask me.

[turbulency]

[ . . . ]

It can be cruel.

But I'd rather that be their punishment than death.

[ablazement]

[she glances at him.]

Even if that's not what they want?

[turbulency]

Karlach.

Do you know something?

[ablazement]

No, of course I don't. [...] I've just talked to Camille.

[turbulency]

And she wishes that she hadn't been brought back?

[ablazement]

Yeah. Not that I care about her opinion on it, I want her here.

But it just makes me think about the other ones that have had to.

[turbulency]

... It's a terrible thing to live with.

But you just said you'd rather have Camille here. All we can do is try to make being alive less shitty for them.

[ablazement]

[silence, for a moment.]

Yeah. Tall fucking task.

[turbulency]

[ Okay, just straight up, ] Karlach, did you kill someone?

[ablazement]

[startles??? hello???

she blinks at him.]

No? What the fuck.

[turbulency]

[ Blinks back at her. ]

Sorry, you were freaking me out a little. [ ... ] I mean, not because you're down. I wasn't trying to be insensitive.

[ablazement]

[help me]

It's - it's fine. [...] No, I just...

[deep breath.]

It's just all been on my mind. I talked to Rondo a lot about it, and... [now he's gone.]

[turbulency]

[ imagine talking to a teenager and they're like why are you so sad is it because you KILLED SOMEONE? ]

... Was he like that, after Camille? Heavy with the guilt of it.

[ablazement]

[HE'S SO FUNNY really just jumpscaring her with murder accusations on a friday because she's a sad sack about her bestie dying]

Mmhm. [...] He and I wanted to save everybody, but - he was struggling with the fact that he had to hurt her to do it.