BRILITH

[voidbreaker]

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[voidbreaker]

Sort of. Into "definitely take", "maybe take", and "trash enough to leave at the mercy of all these fuckers who keep burning books".

[ S M I L E. ]

[infire]

[ CLOSES. HER EYES. in a flat voice, she says: ]

If he does that again, I'll kill him myself.

[voidbreaker]

Don't tell me that I need some kind of plausible deniability.

[ Brilith, please. ]

[infire]

No, you'll be fine. He knows exactly how I feel, and I'd gladly own up to it.

[voidbreaker]

Alright. I probably wouldn't vote for you, if that were the case.

[ hey. sit down, enjoy the books with him. book club meeting, start ]

[infire]

[ she will, thank you. ]

At the very least, he did say those books were mostly erotica. We haven't lost anything that valuable.

[ BRILITH HAS

OPINIONS ]

[voidbreaker]

[ wow. ]

Hey, nothing wrong with a little raunchy literature every now and again.

[infire]

[ agree to disagree!!! ]

Whether or not that's... to your taste, [ gross ] it's hardly valuable literature. Books on magic or astronomy or things like that... those are different story.

[voidbreaker]

No books are a waste.

[ He sets another one down in one of the undefined piles, eyes sliding sideways to look at Brilith. ]

Even if they end up being a pile of trash, there's still something to learn from them.

[infire]

I don't even want to know what you think you'd learn from books like that. I'd rather focus on something more constructive.

[ she currently has a book on basic first aid, for one thing. ]

[voidbreaker]

Not just soft-core pornography, Bril. Any book, any topic. It's usually worth the time to read it - even if it's just for you to realise that's not the genre you want to read.

[ He flicks through one on edible plants, before popping it on the right hand pile. ]

[infire]

I'm not disagreeing with you, Ash, just saying that I know where my limits are. Besides, a priestess reading pornography wouldn't be tolerated. It's bad enough that everyone already thinks that Agni and I are lovers.

[ please don't talk to a priestess about porn. ]

[voidbreaker]

[ Brilith, let your horny energy free. ]

Seems waaaay more complicated that just that.

[infire]

[ looks up



squints ]

What do you mean?

[voidbreaker]

[ He just looks at her. ]

You seem kinda ticked off at him a lot of the time, but you were angry and worried when he was at risk of being voted for executed. [ That sounds complicated, full stop. ]

[infire]

...He is my friend. [ she speaks slowly, as if still deciding how to respond. ] Of course I'd be worried about him. Especially when I'm the one who asked him to handle Meltryllis in the first place.

But that isn't why I was angry. If it comes down to it, I will vote for him.

[voidbreaker]

That so. [ For a moment, it might sound like he's talking about the whole relationship thing, but then he adds -- ]

Guess that was my own unertainty that let someone get to her first. [ ... Honestly he's not sure if he wanted to kill Meltryllis or not. But leaving her to run around like she was wasn't an option. ]

[infire]

[ for a second she thinks someone else is going to accuse her of dating babo kim, but thankfully that isn't the case. she sighs - whether in relief or just general emotional fatigue, who knows. ]

There's no point in dwelling on it now that it's over. It's probably for the best that it was him, since he had that... skull.

[voidbreaker]

[ sometimes the world throws you a bone, Brilith. Not a skull shaped one though. ]

... what was that thing anyway? Akira just whipped one out of nowhere. So they both had one, and that panicking guy from Jingles’ world too?

[infire]

[ brilith just screaming for eternity ]

It was the first I've heard of it. [ certain people never tell her anything. ] They said it was meant to protect them from a critical wound. So my understanding was that, without it, there was a good chance that Babo Kim would have died fighting her.

[voidbreaker]

...

He got super lucky then. Wonder where they got them from — same sort of place that the Gun got the antidote from, maybe?

[infire]

They said it was a reward for finishing those tasks we were given a few weeks ago. That's where my knife came from, too, but if it has any qualities like that, I haven't been told of them.

If there's another chance like that you should try to participate. It's worth it for something so valuable.

[voidbreaker]

Noted. You gonna do another one if it crops up?

[ a knife, huh? ] What does it do? That you do know of. Other than work well for stabbing, obviously.

[infire]

I plan to, yes.

[ shrug! ]

As far as I know, it's just a knife. The only notable thing about it is that the blood won't come off.

[voidbreaker]

Hmm. [ becks will not be on a train becks is a FREE ELF ] Shout if you do. I don’t want to overlook a chance to screw this place over, if I can.

[ ....... uh. ]

You did a whole task and all you got was a perma-bloody knife? That’s kind of a raw deal.