He deserved exactly what he got for messing with Tuuri and Kon's lives like that, but I am with Harrow in that whoever killed him jumped the gun and put someone else in the firing line. [ a pause. ] And, yeah. It is exactly like him.
[ he gives the back of rynlan's head a rub. ]
Would've been kinder to poor Filbo, yeah. Enough of us had suspicions anyway. [ ... ] I was going to use the eye on him, but I wasn't sure if last week's murder was within the window of use for it to work.
Sure, but if we want to help the people we’ve lost [ all (looks at notes) like 15 of them. (“becks isn’t it 16?”) we don’t care about mephisto ] And the demons, then it’ll probably be harder.
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[ he gives the back of rynlan's head a rub. ]
Would've been kinder to poor Filbo, yeah. Enough of us had suspicions anyway. [ ... ] I was going to use the eye on him, but I wasn't sure if last week's murder was within the window of use for it to work.
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Might have been easier if it were him, today.
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It probably would've been.
[ there's also a distinct chance he'd have gone up there himself. or hana might've. but... they're here with what they were given. ]
... Even though we were right, it never feels like we did a good thing.
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It never is a good thing. That's how it is, with death.
[a light shrug of one shoulder.]
But you learn to live with it, in the cases where you need to.
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[he exhales a slow sigh.]
If it has to happen, no matter what, then you do it.
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Shit, isn't it?
[ ha. ]
And now we have to think about this party and how we're going to get out of here with as many of us in one piece as we can.
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