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[bloodandbrass]

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[bloodandbrass]

you steal her shit, i don't give a fuck. just don't get drunk on my property after.

[hardlydead]

Can't promise that.

[bloodandbrass]

so you can't promise you won't start texting me for action again, either.

[hardlydead]

I'd say it's pretty unlikely.

[bloodandbrass]

sure.

[ he kept that last text, for what it's worth. just because ]

kick her shit in and i might ignore the next time you steal something.

[hardlydead]

If she starts something, I'll finish it, but I'm not gonna go starting fights just to curry a little favour with you.

[bloodandbrass]

your call. just keep in mind you're a dead man if i find you passed out drunk in the mines.

[hardlydead]

Considering you'd try and kill me if you found me awake and sober down there, feels like that much goes without saying.

[bloodandbrass]

just a reminder, since you keep showing up. makes that death wish look real obvious.

[hardlydead]

I don't have a death wish.

[bloodandbrass]

bullshit you don't.

[hardlydead]

Got no interest in dying. Pretty sure you'd have an easier time of it if I did.

[bloodandbrass]

half of you maggots go running straight at the first trap you see just to get my attention and you think that ain't a death wish?

[hardlydead]

My job to get as many of them out of a trial as possible, course I'm gonna come for your attention straight off.

[ he can't speak for the others. some of them are like him, some of them are... not very aware of their surroundings. ]

[bloodandbrass]

but not yourself?

sounds like a death wish to me.

[hardlydead]

Just because you don't know what it's like to give a shit about other people doesn't mean I'm out here chasing death.

[bloodandbrass]

[ that'd hurt more if he actually thought about it. ]

keep telling yourself that. looks the same to me.

[hardlydead]

Course it does, you heartless fuck. Doesn't mean it is.

[bloodandbrass]

until there's nothing left of you to protect them.

[ this brief moment of awareness of their surroundings brought to you by the chill wind of the entity saying trial time. ]

[hardlydead]

We're all on borrowed time here. Doing what I can with what I've got.

[ he's already painfully aware he's probably going to burn out and get tossed long before anyone else, thanks. ]

[bloodandbrass]

that make you feel better about it all?

[hardlydead]

Why do you care?

[bloodandbrass]

i don't.

just seen this happen before.

[hardlydead]

Bullshit you don't. Wouldn't be asking me all these questions if you didn't. Not exactly known for being a chatterbox, are you?

I know how shit goes for me here. Don't need you dredging it up to entertain yourself.

[bloodandbrass]

this shit doesn't 'entertain' anybody but the ghost.

you've all got a death wish. you're just too dumb to realize it.

[ any other replies will have to get a clap back when he's done with the trial, because that's when the entity snatches him up, leaving the whole estate empty and only partly protected again. at least for a while. ]