julius kresnik

[chromatized]

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[hymned]

[ ... well, if it's already been done... ]

... I figured it would make it easier for you.

[chromatized]

Just because I killed you doesn't mean I can't mourn you, Julius. If anything, I'd say it's the opposite.

[ maybe it's all terrible and Ludger just feels bad, and only time will heal that! ]

[hymned]

Probably would be better for you if you didn't, really. But I know just saying it like that isn't going to actually do anything.

[ Well. Here they are, now. Having a conversation that wasn't ever supposed to happen. ]

... How's Elle doing?

[chromatized]

[ Ludger narrows his eyes a little at those first statements, but lets it go. For Now. ]

... She's okay. Well- she will be okay. She just... needs time.

[hymned]

I'll bet, after all of what she's been through. But that's good to hear.

[ If she's really going to be fine, then maybe everything was worth it, somehow. Elle surviving implies they caught up to Bisley in time ... implies they might have done something, at the Gates of Judgment. ]

... So. What now?

[chromatized]

What do you mean? We've got a whole bunch of... things happening.

[ they're here, they're (presumably) itemless and broke, they're trying to get a bunch of mannequins to trust them. ]

[hymned]

[ ... ]

It's that simple, is it.

[ Not necessarily. If this is like a fractured dimension then it'll end, sooner rather than later.

But for now... a soft laugh. ]

All right. "Things"— sure, that's one way to put it.

[chromatized]

[ it is Not that simple, Julius, but he won't correct you. ]

Do you have a better way to describe it? Kidnapping? Mass hallucination?

[hymned]

Why don't we go with 'shared mass hallucination.' Considering that it sounds like I very much shouldn't be here, from your perspective, and I'd ... really rather you weren't wherever it is I ended up anyway.

[chromatized]

Saying things like that just makes me worry more...

[ why are you like this ]

Just because you are here doesn't mean I'm unhappy to see you. It's just- unexpected.

[hymned]

Unexpected is definitely a word for it. Not that I'm not happy to see you too, but ...

Forgive me if I don't find it particularly reassuring that we're somehow in the same place after you've apparently already killed me.

[chromatized]

[ ... ]

I just wish we knew if this meant something. But I guess we're all in the dark.

[ looks back 3 weeks later, lol. lmao. ]

[hymned]

... Guess we are. Unless you understood that feeling of ... hunger, I suppose, from right before we woke up here any more than I did.

[ hunger, grief — in a different context, it'd almost be like wanting, yearning.

but also lmaos from 3 weeks later ]

[chromatized]

No, sorry.

[ though speaking of hunger... Ludger's stomach grumbles a bit. ]

... Do you want anything for dinner?

[hymned]

... Why don't you surprise me? You already know what I like, but I can't just make the same request all the time.

[ and if Ludger uses this opportunity to make an eggplant dish, bro, why,,,,,,, ]

[chromatized]

[ roasted eggplant with eggplant sauce and eggplant- ]

Says the guy who asked for the same lunch for a month.

[ but Ludger waves a hand in acknowledgement and heads off. Julius gets to have......................... stew later. ]

[hymned]

H-hey, can you blame me? It's convenient and easy to eat up in the department offices.

[ Savor a delicious home cooked meal with one hand while wrangling the fallout of a bad code push someone pushed into prod when they really shouldn't have with the other! ]