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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

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[explosivecombat]

Well, I should hope not - I'm certainly never going to forget yours, after all.

[doitrockapella]

I suspect that has more to do with your memory than my memorability, but my ego is more than happy to accept the flattery anyway.

[explosivecombat]

Who said it can't be both?

[doitrockapella]

What kind of flowers?

[explosivecombat]

Lotuses. Red ones.

They have a certain importance to me.

[doitrockapella]

Is that a hint to wear red?

[explosivecombat]

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Do what suits you.

[doitrockapella]

What suits me isn't always what's best for me, you know.

[explosivecombat]

You never did explain what you meant by that, you know.

[doitrockapella]

Oh, I know.

I didn't feel like interrupting an important discussion just for the sake of talking about myself, earlier.

[explosivecombat]

Consider it appreciated - but that doesn't mean you can avoid it now, however.

[doitrockapella]

Growing up, I spent a great deal of time around evil men. I told you about the one who used to tell me riddles, who...would've called me his student. He was far from the only one. But he was the one who played the game best of all. He...sometimes, he talked to me the way you do. Sometimes it's like talking to him all over again.

I understand rivalries. Danger. The game. It's easier than the alternative. The challenge makes the alternative more rewarding in the long run, but...even when I'm changed by the people around me, some things stay constant. That...fascination...stays constant.

I like the chase. I like to be chased. That's how I know I'm important. Sometimes that means that to some people, the wrong person, I end up...too important.

What's good for me left, months ago. You...you're more like a bad habit I can't break. The latest manifestation of an addiction I can never seem to decide if I even want to overcome.

[explosivecombat]

One of them decided he was in love with you, didn't he? At least, that's what your wording implies - was it the one who would have considered you his student, or someone else entirely?

[doitrockapella]

I don't think those were the words he would've used.

There were two. My two great rivals. One the teacher, and the other my...student. Of sorts.

[explosivecombat]

I take it neither incident ended well.

[doitrockapella]

You remember when I asked you if you had any particular desire to kill me?

Their answers wouldn't have been as considerate as yours was.

[explosivecombat]

...you certainly do know how to pick winners, don't you?

[doitrockapella]

Believe me, you've been a refreshingly safe change of pace.

[explosivecombat]

Do tell me your significant other here wasn't that student you mentioned.

[doitrockapella]

My significant other was a magnificent exception to the trend. His sense of justice and honor was...unparalleled.

But something's going to happen to him, I think. Whatever it was he returned to, it wasn't good.

[explosivecombat]

What sort of "something"? Do you know?

[doitrockapella]

It's complicated. Too complicated to explain accurately, and he wasn't particularly forthcoming about some of it — out of some desire to protect me, I think.

He was present for several of those strange weekends while he was here, the three-day blackouts. He always had the sense that there was a sort of...escalation, to them. There was something he was afraid of, and during those times, he seemed to think it had gotten in temporarily. That, among other things, it would target me.

I think he went back and had a confrontation with it. And I think he lost.

[explosivecombat]

...the world often isn't kind to those of us that leave, is it.

You have my condolences either way.

[doitrockapella]

The wolf I dream of is him, not you.

So I suppose that trend you spotted holds true, even there.

[explosivecombat]

Now that I know about that...there's someone from my world who's capable of possessing others and using them as vessels. Obviously, that wouldn't be anything he's capable of here; just the same, I wouldn't want you to strike up any sort of running dialogue with him and find that out about him later.

I'll tell you if I see him; he's been here once before, briefly.