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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 14:48:37 GMT
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She found herself with little more that she could say—only because she felt aware that everything else might sound insane. About the idea of time travel, and ‘fixes’ like that… it wasn’t like it was on the schedule anymore, anyways.

Theo seemed to be okay, as though he’d come to terms with his actions. Made peace with it, if he’d ever needed to in the past.

So, would a man like him go back in time if he could?

“Do you have any regrets?”

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 14:55:02 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]theo continues to answer honestly.

"a few. but nothing good can come from them."

he finishes what's left of his drink before reaching for the bottle, refilling both their glasses.

"do you?"

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 15:12:57 GMT
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Her answers were, perhaps, more carefully calculated. They took a moment. She was timid, wary.

“A few.” A lot. Try: everything.

How does one grieve the death of someone who had loved them so violently? Far in the past, Rinc’s life had sounded so much more difficult than her own. She’d not been hit by an angry father, or even thrown into a glass table as Cillian had been. She had justified her lover's behavior with thoughts that she deserved it, if only to balance the suffering of the world.

How far back into existence might one have to travel in order to rectify these things? How many thousands of years?

Her regrets spanned killing to living and everything in between, and after. Not dying, even, all the times that she should have. Why the fuck not?

“Don’t regrets remind you not to make the same mistakes again?”

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 16:30:04 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]theo shakes his head as he places the bottle back down. her glass is gently extended over to her.

"i find that i don't really need the reminder. once is more than enough."

and after a pause, he asks:

"what do you regret?"

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 16:43:15 GMT
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Oh.

She sighed, wondering what that meant about her thought process.

Her response was the first thing that came to mind this time.

“Fucking  .”

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 17:13:35 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]"of course."

he sips.

she doesn't really need the reminder, and yet, due to their conversation, he thinks it best to give her one.

"don't do it again."

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 17:31:00 GMT
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Her face scrunched in an unpleasant way.

“Ew.”

Of course not. Never in a million years.

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 17:50:02 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]whatever happens to her face makes him laugh.

"good."

he downs the rest of his drink, then sinks lower to rest the back of his head against the platform.

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 18:14:21 GMT
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Her eyes rested on him a bit easier. His laughter prickled her skin like the flush from the water.

Good.

“I regret running.”

From Galar.

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 18:21:44 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]running from what exactly, he can only assume. regardless, it means little in dissuading him on commenting.

"you're not running anymore."

his head lazily tilts over to peer at her.

"are you?"

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 18:35:33 GMT
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She’d killed all of them that had followed her, presumably. All except for @emi , and she’d popped up far too late to prevent the damages that had been done by the assumption that she’d not made it.

“No.”

Not from the same things, at least.

Then, she looked back, daring to ask with more interest than she typically offered people.

“What do you regret?”

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 18:52:39 GMT
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[attr="class","beck"]"i regret pushing raziel away."

it's likely not a name she's heard of but it's one of significant importance to him.

for years, raziel had been his tether to whatever little humanity remained in him. perhaps knowing what he knows now, he could've prevented things from ending the way they did.

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POSTED ON Aug 25, 2021 19:15:01 GMT
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Boy, it was pretty hot. It was getting uncomfortable. She felt a bit light-headed.

But the conversation kept her in the water for the moment, intrigued. It wasn’t the answer she’d been expected. For some reason, she’d expected to at least hear a name she was familiar with. Why, she wasn’t so sure. It occurred to her, then, that she knew practically nothing about Theo.

Most everything was an assumption.

“Who’s Raziel?”

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[attr="class","beck"]"one of pryde's kids. he was smart. bright. worked in the labs for us. but they pushed him towards field work."

raziel pushed himself, really, but even now theo refuses to see him as nothing more than an innocent kid.

"he defected a while ago."

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POSTED ON Aug 26, 2021 11:51:58 GMT
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had kids? Multiple, even? She hadn’t been aware.

“Oh.”

Why did Theo care so much about Pryde’s spawn? She was curious, but it felt intrusive to ask further. Pryde was her colleague, and she didn’t feel a need to know that much about his personal life.

“Fuck. Too hot.”

Finally, she rose, towel clinging from water and sweat. With a sigh of relief at the breeze, she stepped out—but didn’t leave yet. After eyeing down a moment, she instead sat at the edge, only dangling her inked legs into the steam.

Then, she poured his sake, and extended it towards him.