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ellis ginsberg. ([personal profile] heorte) wrote2019-09-10 03:02 pm
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-24 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's worth remembering, of course, that venatori power is very different than it'd been in the dreams; that was, allegedly, the point of them. he remembers other things, too. richard, eyes glittering in the firelight, as he calmly laid out the assertion that rifters were a poison to a dying world. petrana, by a different campfire, reminding him in no uncertain terms that this war is for them as much for theodosians. he remembers the conviction he'd felt in the dream, the determination not to let any of it come to pass.

he breathes out, slow. ]


I'd like to take a look at those letters, [ he says instead of anything else. is there anything else to say? ellis is obviously right. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-24 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'll look into it, [ said after a thoughtful sound. ] It's good to know that something in the dreams has basis in the real world after all.

[ and if one thing does, that means so can others. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-24 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I could tell, [ and maybe there's an edge of bitterness, ] that was the idea.

[ i am sorry that you—so many of you—have suffered. that was not my wish. well, she got her goddamned point across, and that can't be denied. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-26 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't, he thinks, need to ask why ellis would want to. ]

I'd appreciate it. If I do, it wouldn't be a one-man job.

[ and it'd be worth, too, having people there who aren't shard-bearers. he pauses, long, before going on. ]

There's a favor I want to ask you.
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-26 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ he thinks of amos, in the dream. all carefully kept cave, complete with a goddamn goat, i was supposed to get you out. he thinks, more recently, of naomi. all bright smiles, snow in her hair and her hands, the confession, i've missed you.

when he speaks, it's slow, but certain. ]


If anything happens to me, [ and god knows, it's not just about venatori or the war; rifters can vanish without warning, him just as easily as anyone, ] there's people I want you to look out for.

[ maybe he should be more concerned about ellis's absence in the dream, where he'd gone, what that means for him and for a promise like this. and he is; he is. but this is a selfishness, one that feels right in this moment. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-26 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there are a lot of things he could say. but what he does say is, ]

Because I trust you to do it. [ then, not without amusement, ] Is that a no?
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1/2

[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-26 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ dryly, ]

If something happens to you first, you can consider yourself off the hook.
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-02-26 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but then, more seriously, ]

I could ask someone else. I'm not trying to make you do anything. They both have friends here, or they will.

[ and one another, for that matter; he's made a request like this to naomi, before. but that was home, not in thedas, a different place with different rules and a very different status assigned to them. which — they'd also have the organization of riftwatch, for that matter. this isn't a request coming from a place of rationality. ]

It'd just make me feel better, [ and the words twist, self-deprecating, this is a selfishness, ] to know someone else would keep an eye on them.

[ and maybe, goes un-admitted, some of his faith in riftwatch has gone shaken after the dream; at least concerning rifter's interests. ellis might've been absent for a lot of the dream, but that also meant he wasn't part of certain decisions they both hate. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-03-02 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's a pause before he answers, long enough for a person to breathe out with some measure of relief, cover his face briefly. but he only says — ]

Thank you.
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-03-03 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Amos. [ agreed. and: ] Naomi Nagata. She's a new arrival; you'll meet her sooner rather than later.

[ he knows amos AND holden, and everyone in research basically, he's going to meet her. ]
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-03-03 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's because this is ellis, and the magnitude of what he just asked for, that he says, ]

I can do that. What do you need?
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-03-03 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ he remembers: i was attending to warden business. and, only a moment ago: wardens aren't known for their longevity.

readily, ]


Of course.
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[personal profile] acreage 2021-03-03 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ that awkward pause after you've swapped promises to protect people if one of you dies, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, everything here is fine. he considers adding, with my life, or, i promise.

instead, ]


If I find a lead worth following, you'll be the first to know.

[ from the letters. ]

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