Jaune and I talked. We didn't get into specifics. I'm aware I was working with Salem at least for a while. Vengeance will make you do very stupid things, and we'll leave it at that if that's ok.
I know that you guys wouldn't leave us high and dry. I just am not as comfortable trying to pretend that I haven't tried to stab most of you to death at some point. Ruby thinks of it as a work in progress, and it is. It's just a much longer work than I think it is with Emerald.
She needed you guys more than she realized when she got here.
[ For nearly as long as he has recruited allies, she has done the same. He has met all kinds in her service, and those driven by revenge are often chief among them. She finds them easiest to move around the board, perhaps. He has never truly faulted those who, given half a chance, might turn away. He knows what it is like to follow her.
We'll leave it at that shall be a kindness to them both. For now, at least. ]
[Admittedly, unlike Hazel, nobody had really ever gotten her to sign any dotted lines and Salem had promptly ignored her existence. But she wasn't wrong. It was a powerful motivator to doing really dumb things and not caring about the consequences.]
I'm pretty glad myself too. Emerald and I barely had time together back home to know each other. And I doubt very much that I would ever have enough time to actually talk with Red.
[Don't know about that, Neo. Might have a LOT of that soon, not that you know it yet.]
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I'm aware I was working with Salem at least for a while.
Vengeance will make you do very stupid things, and we'll leave it at that if that's ok.
I know that you guys wouldn't leave us high and dry.
I just am not as comfortable trying to pretend that I haven't tried to stab most of you to death at some point.
Ruby thinks of it as a work in progress, and it is.
It's just a much longer work than I think it is with Emerald.
She needed you guys more than she realized when she got here.
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[ For nearly as long as he has recruited allies, she has done the same. He has met all kinds in her service, and those driven by revenge are often chief among them. She finds them easiest to move around the board, perhaps. He has never truly faulted those who, given half a chance, might turn away. He knows what it is like to follow her.
We'll leave it at that shall be a kindness to them both. For now, at least. ]
I am glad things can be as they are here.
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I'm pretty glad myself too.
Emerald and I barely had time together back home to know each other.
And I doubt very much that I would ever have enough time to actually talk with Red.
[Don't know about that, Neo. Might have a LOT of that soon, not that you know it yet.]