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This is Maketh Tua. State your business.

Date: 2017-05-21 11:49 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (all unaware)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
[The way she moves, that look on her face, disturbs Henry as he approaches. He frowns deeply and scrutinises her spread. The rifle is no surprise, but there are too many knives. The addition of a meat cleaver — a tool meant only for butchery — alerts him to the nature of her plan. The hammer only seals it.]

You would resort to torture...?! [A mix of rising shock and disgust colours his tone.] Where is your source of fire, to melt closed the open wound of his stumps? Will you splinter the bones of his hands and feet before you remove them? His knees and his elbows next? Do you intend to flay the flesh from each first? Shall you crush his hips and his spine for good measure?!

[Henry reaches out and takes hold of her shoulders. The confrontation in his voice vanishes, and he beseeches her.]

You cannot do this, Maketh.

[He does not care about Sato; he cares about her soul.]

Date: 2017-05-22 05:50 am (UTC)
hotspurred: (heart still beating)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
It is no solution. Did you learn naught from his assault on headquarters? His friend will simply kill him. Or perhaps he will find a means to kill himself. But not before showing Hadriel the evil that the Guard has inflicted upon him. At which point does his maligning of us become truth?

[Henry shifts his weight restlessly and shakes his head.]

Forget our reputation. Forget about Sato.

[He moves his hands from her shoulders to cup her face. He lowers his voice.]

You shall hate yourself for this. You are my sister; I will not stand back and watch you put this on your soul.

Date: 2017-05-22 02:01 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (confront alone)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
[Henry strokes his thumbs over Maketh's cheeks.]

I swore you an oath.

[He won't budge on this. Not when there is such a price to be paid.]

You are better than torture. We can find another way. One that you are not forced to shoulder alone.

Date: 2017-05-22 03:45 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (be it myself)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
Allow me to aid you, Maketh.

[He says, gently but resolutely.]

Date: 2017-05-22 10:05 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (closing in)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
[Henry bumps their foreheads together, a gesture Maketh normally initiates, then slowly draws his hands from her face, shifting the one she squeezes so that they remain joined.]

Come. Let us sit and talk.

Date: 2017-05-22 10:41 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (strength of will)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
[He leads Maketh to their living room sofa, and tugs her to sit with him at his side, away from the kitchen and her plans.]

You left Doctor Sweets cowering a floor below us. The fear in his voice was poorly disguised when he called me. If you have no more use for him, send him home.

Date: 2017-05-23 11:45 am (UTC)
hotspurred: (what say you?)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
I see. Perhaps he merely waited for me to arrive first.

[Henry falls quiet, then sighs heavily after a moment. He didn't think that Maketh and Shadow were so close that her desire for vengeance would be so furious.

So perhaps there is more to it. The conversation he had with Nick before coming here has made him question his doubts about the whole incident that started this.

He wishes he did not have to ask, and hates that he cannot be certain without doing so.]


...Maketh. Be there more to Sato's accusations than mere falsehood?

Date: 2017-05-23 02:50 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (truly value)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
[Henry bumps his thigh against hers.]

I believe you.

[Unfortunately he cannot leave it there. Part of him tires of how much goes on without his knowledge.]

What was your plan?

Date: 2017-05-23 03:22 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (the silent voice)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
Do you not see? The Guard's integrity would be forfeit. Irrevocably, without care for whether you resigned. It would shame us all.

[It's a good thing Lance saw fit to intervene. But more importantly, now that fate has been averted:]

Why must you insist on needlessly sacrificing yourself?

Date: 2017-05-23 09:28 pm (UTC)
hotspurred: (be not so arrogant)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
A what?

[The term puzzles him, but that does not change his opinion. He frowns, worry in the gaze that he rests upon her.]

Sacrifice should be one's absolute last resort. I am [he pauses, searching for the right word] dismayed by how hastily you turn to it at the expense of all other options. Your determination to act alone...

[Henry says it precisely because he loves her, and because she makes that same decision again and again. Even now she seems to think that she can keep the Guard safe only at cost to herself, rather than fighting alongside them.]

Date: 2017-05-24 02:03 am (UTC)
hotspurred: (constricting my chest)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
The Guard is strongest when we stand as a whole. Have you forgotten that fact?

[He squeezes her hand.]

You are a good woman, sister. Do right by yourself.

Date: 2017-05-24 11:21 am (UTC)
hotspurred: (strength of will)
From: [personal profile] hotspurred
We will put away your weapons together.

[To put the notion of torture to rest once and for all.

Henry raises his free hand to stroke his fingers over Maketh's hair.]


Lose not your heart.

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