contacting misa had been a deliberate choice. not because he thinks she's stupid, or that he'd expect her to act against the kenoma's interests; but because he does know her heart. he does understand her. and, in a weird way, that means he extends some faint kind of trust to her. expecting anything more detailed than this answer would've been a fool's errand. but she doesn't play games with him, and she doesn't lie to him. she isn't lording the information over his head. this is as much as he could've asked for.
what do you think? — she's right, he does know. and it's terrible to think of abel and himeka alone in achamoth, pain being inflicted on them, but he can't help a faint spark of hope that they're alive. that they haven't been turned to the shadow, not that those two of all people would. (that the regent has limits in their ability to break people to their will.)
the next thing she says is troubling, in different ways. so she saw some of it? so their capture isn't a secret, which he hadn't imagined it would be, but there is...something. it's not just that abel and himeka were taken directly to the depths of some dungeon and left there. (or if they were, does he think misa would go visit them? he doesn't think he does. she'd only gone to see him out of necessity, and that'd been some distance from the regent's eyes.) but also: if she saw anything, then maybe they really are in achamoth, not carted off to light knows what secret place. what a complication that would've been. ]
I remember you telling me that Abel is your friend.[ back in venera, what's already starting to feel like a lifetime ago. this could sound like an accusation, but his tone is more like that conversation they'd had in his cell: just two people talking about how fundamentally different their choices in this world is. ]But...that's not more important to you than saving the person you love. Is that right?
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contacting misa had been a deliberate choice. not because he thinks she's stupid, or that he'd expect her to act against the kenoma's interests; but because he does know her heart. he does understand her. and, in a weird way, that means he extends some faint kind of trust to her. expecting anything more detailed than this answer would've been a fool's errand. but she doesn't play games with him, and she doesn't lie to him. she isn't lording the information over his head. this is as much as he could've asked for.
what do you think? — she's right, he does know. and it's terrible to think of abel and himeka alone in achamoth, pain being inflicted on them, but he can't help a faint spark of hope that they're alive. that they haven't been turned to the shadow, not that those two of all people would. (that the regent has limits in their ability to break people to their will.)
the next thing she says is troubling, in different ways. so she saw some of it? so their capture isn't a secret, which he hadn't imagined it would be, but there is...something. it's not just that abel and himeka were taken directly to the depths of some dungeon and left there. (or if they were, does he think misa would go visit them? he doesn't think he does. she'd only gone to see him out of necessity, and that'd been some distance from the regent's eyes.) but also: if she saw anything, then maybe they really are in achamoth, not carted off to light knows what secret place. what a complication that would've been. ]
I remember you telling me that Abel is your friend. [ back in venera, what's already starting to feel like a lifetime ago. this could sound like an accusation, but his tone is more like that conversation they'd had in his cell: just two people talking about how fundamentally different their choices in this world is. ] But...that's not more important to you than saving the person you love. Is that right?