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[bellare]

( 𝐮𝐧:𝐭𝐡𝐞.𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 ) 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭, 𝐞𝐭𝐜.

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un: killjoy

[motivation]

remember me?

[bellare]

[ his heart leaps into his throat. ]

Kind of hard to forget. [ half joke, half blind panic. ]

[motivation]

never know, in this place

[ remember how they both forgot that they weren't married and didn't live in a bloody village all their lives? yeah ]

[bellare]

[ no one gets his shitty jokes :( ]

True. Do you have any lingering effects?

[motivation]

none i've noticed
you?

[bellare]

I'm fine if that's what you're asking.

[motivation]

you asked first

[ so what did he mean? ]

[bellare]

You messaged first.

[ so what does she want? ]

[motivation]

just checking in

[bellare]

I appreciate that.

[motivation]

do you?

[ not everyone's happy to be reminded of a fake relationship ]

[bellare]

I said I did. [ it wasn't sarcasm, just like this isn't true defensiveness as it may come across. a part of him had just assumed they would go their separate ways and she'd never want to see him again so the message had been a shock. ] Are you okay? [ he doesn't just mean physically this time. ]

[motivation]

always am
are you?

[bellare]

[ that gets a smile, hearing her voice through the words on his screen, though it's gone just as quick. ]

Same.
I've been getting a lot of messages to help from the different regions.

[ initially he thinks she'll be able to tell him if that's usual, but then he realizes it almost sounds like he's asking her to tag along. ]

[motivation]

yeah?

[ it does sound a little like he's asking her to tag along ]

what are you gonna do about it?

[bellare]

That's what we're here for, isn't it?

[ it's not rhetorical, he really wants to know her opinion. ]

[motivation]

honestly?
i think we're here because the orbiters need soldiers, but that's just my guess

[bellare]

So you think this whole script to get us here is a ploy?

[motivation]

maybe it is, maybe it isn't
but i don't think they saved us out of the sheer goodness of their hearts or some shit like that

[bellare]

No. They need us in one capacity or another, I agree.

For now I'm still playing nice. Do you think that's the wrong move?

[motivation]

[ dutch has been playing along, mainly because there are people she cares about in stasis. bargaining chips. she hates that, but it keeps her in line. ]

no

[bellare]

As long as we're play acting, might as well knock something off the list right?

[ that one was a genuine offer, help him help some losers? ]

[motivation]

why the hells not
what've you got in mind?

[bellare]

A little light cartography? If you're up to the challenge.

[motivation]

up to it? i'd like to see you keep up