audience: ashlyn

[mygod]

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[mygod]

[ there is probably no one who loves the npcs more than mathis so probably not him ] Wanna punch me?

[killies]

[ that's fair actually. ]

Not especially, but I could. How are you at dodging?

[mygod]

It's my specialty, actually! [ ]

[killies]

Then we're good. I'm pretty used to sparring with my friends, so I know how to go easy and keep it realistic.

[ does she actually go easy on her friends. probably not. but she believes this. ]

[mygod]

[ she holds her hand out. ] Pleasure to deal business with you!

[killies]

[ shakes her hand but with an aura of ??? ]

Mm. We could do it next Tuesday, maybe? That tends to be when everyone gathers for stupid reasons, anyway.

[mygod]

That works. I will just... show up.

[killies]

You usually do anyway.

[mygod]

Only because people ask us to!

[killies]

We're a team, after all.

[mygod]

... yeah. You guys are all pretty great.

[killies]

No, we're kind of a disaster.

Like the fact that we're killing each other faster than the cult that wants to sacrifice us all seems like a bad sign about our general competence.

[mygod]

Well. I meant your personalities.

[killies]

... There are... some good people here.

[ she doesn't hate to admit this she just feels awkward about saying it. ]

[mygod]

[ ashlyn..... ]

Made lots of friends?

[killies]

... Maybe?

[ she's sincerely not sure if she should call them that, in most cases. ]

But a lot of them have died.

[mygod]

Yeah. That's the difficult part. Making connections only for them to be severed.

[ she peers at her. ]

But friends are still friends.

[killies]

... We're friends of circumstance. When we get out of here, we part ways.

[mygod]

Isn't that all friendship? People you meet in school, who you would have never ran into if you went elsewhere. People you meet because you just happened to decide to pick up a hobby. You went to a store and ran into them.

Circumstance is what creates all our encounters and relationships. Parting is not an end to things, it is simply another path in life.

[killies]

I guess I'd just never had friends until recently, so I don't know what it's like when it's over.

[mygod]

It's very sad. And you'll feel alone. But it's still worth the effort.

[killies]

I don't mind being alone. I like it more.

[mygod]

Really? But do you like it always? You're never lonely?

[killies]

Lonely... isn't a word I'd use, no.

[mygod]

Then... how would you describe it?