[Video]// backdated to the first liminal space

[neverfeltthatway]

...I found the King's sigil again.

[Armin projects a brief look around, so people can know where he is, and then looks down to a manhole cover in one of the underpasses - where, just as he said, the golden sigil sits. Uncharacteristically, his tone is short and abrupt.]

Avoid this place.


[Private to Leo]

I'm not sure the same protections will work here, with all the traffic. Any ideas?

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[purseownerisme]

Is he planning on doing that alone?

[neverfeltthatway]

As far as I know, he's the only one able to contain it. Naoto's coming to assist him with the skill she got from the grid, though, and there are several more of us who will be working to block and divert traffic so he can safely reach the sigil in the first place.

...I plan on learning the eldritch protections from him as soon as possible. It's too dangerous to rely on just one person for it.

[purseownerisme]

...sounds like a good idea.

[neverfeltthatway]

It's... not really something I'm looking forward to. [He could never learn another thing about the Great Old Ones, and it would still be too soon. But somebody has to stand up, or everyone is at risk.]

[purseownerisme]

More like a job that has to be done, right?

[neverfeltthatway]

...Yeah.

Ideally, at least a couple more people should learn as well. It'd still be too easy for both of us to vanish, or be infiltrating.

[purseownerisme]

I suppose you're right.

Is there anyone you trust to do it?

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[neverfeltthatway]

That's... difficult. There are a lot of people I would trust, but that I wouldn't want to get involved in this. [Dick, or Zatanna, or Mai, or Chizuru, or Sera. People too young or too innocent, or people still traumatized from what happened in Harrogate - people he wants to protect from this.] But for people I know can handle it, I suppose I'd trust Alcuin to do it, or Hijikata.

...Or you.

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[purseownerisme]

Me?

Why me?

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[neverfeltthatway]

Because I trust you. You're smart enough to learn it and do it right, driven enough not to give up or let down your guard, brave enough not to back down from what we're up against, and strong enough to fight it if you have to.

[His voice is quiet, but there's no hint of uncertainty or hesitation in what he's saying.]

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[purseownerisme]

You...believe in me that much?

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[neverfeltthatway]

I - I do. You were my leader once. I trusted you to look after us then, and you didn't let us down. Even if it wasn't exactly you, everything I've seen of you since then has told me the same.

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[purseownerisme]

...but it was still me wasn't it?