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ZANE . house venture ([personal profile] godsays) wrote2013-08-14 03:56 pm

private . 19th metal

[ private to anya ]

I think I need help.

[ private to kelsier ]

I want to ask you to keep Vin away from me, but I don't trust you to put my safety over her comfort.

[ Bald and honest. He cares about Kelsier, and Marsh, and it is unbelievably painful to understand that he would be betrayed. ]

[ private to iris ]

You've been killed before. By people here.

[ private to morgana ]

How did you die?

[ a couple days later, private to Cassel ]

I'm sorry I've been so afraid.
onlysurvivor: (9th metal)

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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-08-14 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Not exactly what he meant but he'll go with it.]

I would be where you are now. That wasn't the change I meant, unless wanted that sort of company.

[But that does get Kelsier on a new thought. One he's not even sure he wants to voice.] I know what I would need.

What do you need?
routemistress: (monochrome)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Be glad you missed it, she did a cock-awful job. But you know she were a warden when that 'appened and that's why she's not now.

This woman's come 'ere because one, the Admiral trusts that she's capable of doing this job, and two, there's summat she needs badly enough to agree to it. I love this boat enough to work without a deal but I'm a minority. Either way, Zane, that adds up to someone who's capable of putting old grudges to one side. Don't you think?

...What's 'er name, anyway? I'd like to talk to 'er.
onlysurvivor: (13th metal)

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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-08-14 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Because of what you might do or what you might otherwise. I will talk to her.

Is there anything else?
routemistress: (ya rly)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
In a place where murdering someone only gives 'em a week-long 'eadache? Most people 'ave to sooner or later. It's kind of the point.

[She has to giggle a bit at that.]

Bet you I don't.
routemistress: (monochrome)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
...Zane, 'ave you met me? 'Ave you looked at the sort of people I fall in love with?

All right, Babs is an exception, granted, but she's Babs. Listen to me. I love you. You and I 'ave worked 'ard for that and no bloody hero can take it away. That's a promise.
routemistress: (face)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, and so will you. Cassel doesn't love you any less because 'e's finding 'is right place. You've 'elped 'im get there.
routemistress: i nicked this off Tumblr (graphic)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
So it'll need a bit more work. That's not a new thing, my love. Loving people always needs work. You're worth it to us.

Besides, you'll catch up. He were younger than you and that makes 'im grow faster. 'E's bendier.
routemistress: (profile 2)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Then 'e won't. Cassel's as trustworthy as I am. Which is to say not at all, but I don't make a promise without I know I can keep it.
routemistress: (o rly)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
'E's not in charge of 'ow fast 'e grows. 'E is in charge of whether 'e's there for you, and 'e won't let you down on that score. No matter what.
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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
No, 'e'll be better. Zane, nothing alive ever stops changing; you'll only break your 'eart over and over if you make your love conditional on it. Look 'ow much you've changed already. You won't lose Cassel and you won't lose me. No matter what. The likes of him and me, we don't break promises.
routemistress: (face)

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[personal profile] routemistress 2013-08-14 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Just keep breathing and stay in touch, you plonker. Cassel loves you too. 'E won't let go of you.
youwillgotohell: ("I'll be cruel")

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[personal profile] youwillgotohell 2013-08-14 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She can't answer right away; something about the timing is too strangely perfect, too ironic, and she laughs alone in her room. She has to get it out before she talks to him, because it's not Zane she's laughing at.]

My destiny and my doom caught up with me.

Why?
fridgetothefire: (yeah I totally believe that)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-14 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you have a skewed perspective. You could probably still break me in half without trying very hard, for instance.

[By skewed perspective, of course, she means: he thinks of his powers as the default, he relies on them overmuch. This is not entirely fair of her, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a point.]

On the flip side, no amount of godlike power prevents someone from being helpless in every circumstance. No one can control every variable. We are all weaker than someone, we all die.

[She's musing rather than lecturing, almost idly. There are rustling sounds as she moves around her room, gathers a notebook and a pen, settles back into her seat.]
wedonot: (Well this can't possibly end well.)

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[personal profile] wedonot 2013-08-14 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[It turns out Charles doesn't have to find out a way to break the news to Zane, because Zane's apparently found out before he has a chance to tell it to him. The spike of emotion makes Charles race to find him, using the connection Zane had insisted on as a sort of homing beacon to find the Mistborn, and he waits until he finds him before saying anything. He's not sure if he's ever going to be comfortable talking inside his head.]

Are you alright? [It's probably not the best thing to ask, but it's his first priority, because he has no idea how Zane's going to react to this.]

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