un: absterge

[downswing]

A child failed in Ke-Waihu. Again, in Serthica.

Here, young Princess Cle-Florens, convinced of duty as sacrifice. We cannot abandon.

Elsewise: beware the Wards, the Gut's Bind. Death wanders.

If you have come possessed or hell-tainted, speak.

Comments

[somebadnews]

Or you could get her now and worry about that after. If she's so set on being a sacrifice, you're not going to change her entire set of beliefs in an afternoon.

[downswing]

Children can learn.

[somebadnews]

[ It's like he has a filter in his brain that blocks out any logic from getting to him. ]

What's your plan, then?

[downswing]

Some say we entrust her with decision.

[somebadnews]

So you'll leave her alone if she asks you to?

1/2

[downswing]

( ...ah. )

[downswing]

'Do not lie.'

[somebadnews]

Uh-huh. You just like giving the illusion that you’ll take advice?

[downswing]

Ill-informed children should not choose destruction.

[somebadnews]

Good. You’ve made a decision then.

[downswing]

It is ever so simple for you.

[somebadnews]

Either she lives or she dies, it doesn't get much simpler.

[downswing]

Are you not at all moved?

[somebadnews]

I’m not stopping you, am I?

[downswing]

Inability or unwillingness?

[somebadnews]

[ Mostly knowing how stubborn Wangji is, but still. ]

Do you think I’d want the kid to die?

[downswing]

You would not care, irrespectively.

[somebadnews]

There are a lot of kids who are going to die if the gate breaks.