Unless you can send us home, then anything short of killing us here will only delay the inevitable.
[ The sight of a distressed child brings her no pleasure, but her sympathies are coming up short after the tower's trials, especially if she's to think on just everything the boy has been responsible for so far. If he means to make her forget as soon as she sees the citadel, to unwind it all, to continue thinking of them as mere dolls...he is a danger, whether or not he means to be.
If anything, she ought to take his threat seriously, and she does, but she isn't able to concede. It's just impossible. The concept of him just magicking her away, or him disappearing in turn, is shunned. She needs to know more first.
Before she can risk him actually completing a countdown, Vanessa knocks the umbrella aside, leaning forward to reach for his wrist with a weakened grip. She doesn't know if it will keep him from disappearing anyone, but if she can grab hold for even a moment, perhaps in that moment of contact she can reach into him and see something real in his psyche; something that led to any of this happening, something that made him this way. ]
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[ The sight of a distressed child brings her no pleasure, but her sympathies are coming up short after the tower's trials, especially if she's to think on just everything the boy has been responsible for so far. If he means to make her forget as soon as she sees the citadel, to unwind it all, to continue thinking of them as mere dolls...he is a danger, whether or not he means to be.
If anything, she ought to take his threat seriously, and she does, but she isn't able to concede. It's just impossible. The concept of him just magicking her away, or him disappearing in turn, is shunned. She needs to know more first.
Before she can risk him actually completing a countdown, Vanessa knocks the umbrella aside, leaning forward to reach for his wrist with a weakened grip. She doesn't know if it will keep him from disappearing anyone, but if she can grab hold for even a moment, perhaps in that moment of contact she can reach into him and see something real in his psyche; something that led to any of this happening, something that made him this way. ]