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too intimately familiar with the effects of the border, matias knows his time here is limited, prolonging it would only increase the risks which he has no intentions of doing anymore.

with his arcanine leading the way, tongue slopping out of its mouth as it bounces left and right, they make their way through the border, making sure to avoid the areas he's been to before; areas that he knows hold danger.

but in doing so, he ends up down another path that leads him to the same thing anyways. or arguably worse, perhaps.

"florist."

his voice cuts through the mist.

"you're not who i was looking for."

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The dead ought to stay dead. They ought to, but Hoenn didn't respect the permanence of such things.[break][break]

She'd seen it firsthand with ALEXANDER STONE. Half of her expected to see it with kyle lopez, now.[break][break]

Wo-chien slithered by her side, blending easily into familiar hazy surroundings as its Avatar searched the strange liminal space for the man she'd killed. What better bait was there than this -- the presence of his murderer -- to tempt him into revealing herself?[break][break]

The answer to that question revealed itself all too suddenly, manifesting first as an Arcanine and then as a man she'd done everything in her power to avoid despite the machinations of THEO BECKETT and others like him.[break][break]

Panic caught fire in her lungs, but she fought it down, the cutting tenor of his voice confirming her deepest darkest fears.[break][break]

"Then turn around and go back." The sharpness of her own voice surprised her. "You go your way, and I go mine."[break][break]

Thorny tendrils snaked upwards from the ground, dancing through the mist like shadowy whips prepared to strike.

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his arcanine senses the shift in the air, the sudden drop in tonality that threatens to drag them all down into the mist. he will not allow that to happen, naturally, as a soft grin graces his features.

"it would be easier that way, wouldn't it?"

if only she deserved that, but elisabeth is the last person who deserves mercy after everything she's done.

his eyebrow raises at snaking thorny tendrils, though he does not move from where he stands. his arcanine, having been trained by kyle lopez, prepares for the worst as embers dance across its fur, casting shades of orange and red across the scene.

"don't tell me you're scared of me."

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"It's not fear. It's pragmatism."[break][break]

kyle lopez was a liar. MATIAS SILPH would never forgive her for what she'd done.[break][break]

Elisabeth had seen a universe where she'd killed Kyle before, and had witnessed the storm of grief that had enveloped that world's Matias with violence and despair.[break][break]

She'd died in that world, too, though that factor hadn't mattered much to her mind. Her death didn't cancel out Kyle's.[break][break]

Murder was murder, with or without the presence of the murderer to pay the price for it.[break][break]

"Besides," she continued, the embers shimmering across his Arcanine's fur catching her attention, "violence was the language you always understood best."[break][break]

She'd learned that much on Mt. Chimney, the first and the last time they'd met.

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"if i wanted you dead, elisa, you already would be."

if he truly was the unforgiving monster she made him out to be, he would've announced his presence with an EARTH SPIKE through her ankles to stop her from fleeing. then, he'd press forward, goading and toying with her to make her pay for what she'd done.

instead, he raises a hand and runs it along arcanine's fur, stifling the embers that quickly fade. the fire-type nudges its nose into matias' palm, then nods.

after smiling down at his arcanine, he looks back at the underboss.

"can we talk?"

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"So you say," she said uncertainly, watching him with mounting suspicion as he ran his hand over his Arcanine's fur.[break][break]

This shift in his demeanor proved difficult to decipher. Shock and numb from grief, she figured, or playing at indifference to conceal ulterior motives.[break][break]

She didn't trust her instincts, not after being fooled so many times in the past by her senses.[break][break]

She didn't believe he could be gentle. Not with her.[break][break]

"Aren't we talking now?" The thicket of thorns subtly stretched outwards through the mist, curling about her like a protective cage. "I can't imagine there's much left to say."

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it's almost sad to see how futile her defenses are should he actually be here to claim his revenge. the thicket of thorns that stretch out to keep her safe would be her undoing. he'd burnt through bryan delarosa's all the same when there were far fewer stakes.

"i'd argue the opposite."

there's too much left unsaid. but now, with the mist binding them in place, there's nowhere left to run.

"did you know?" he questions but he does not accuse.

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"That kyle lopez would die for you? No. I didn't."[break][break]

This was true enough, though perhaps her time with Father Winter should have warned her otherwise.[break][break]

The twisting thorns tightened and curled like a fist as she hesitated, attempting to find words that didn't come.[break][break]

"But I always knew you'd suffer a fate like this if you pursued me. One way or another."[break][break]

To be disappointed. To be ruined. To hate her for what she inevitably always would be.[break][break]

"I warned you of that from the beginning. You just didn't listen."

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his grin lingers through the chuckle he exhales not out of disbelief — her responses do little to surprise him, falling in line with what he has come to expect from her — but out of relief, almost, that nothing seems to have changed. there's some sort of comfort to find in that.

"no, i listened. i just didn't care."

the primal markings that taint his body run the side of his neck and across his face, now appearing smoother than they did previously.

"i guess this means you knew the red shard was corrupted."

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An unspoken tension lingered between them, unexpectedly dissipating as he chuckled at her reply with seeming relief.[break][break]

Confusion flashed across her features at this, and her frown deepened as she stepped back, the mist tugging insistently at her clothing as if to deny her escape.[break][break]

So she held her ground, stubborn as she'd always been.[break][break]

"You weren't supposed to survive," she said bluntly. "Walsh had his own plans for you. The fact you did, and that you weren't severed from Groudon like Kyogre and Dross? That wasn't planned."[break][break]

Wo-chien had noticed the change in him first, slinking behind her with a low hiss of warning.[break][break]

His grudges didn't lie thick on the air, not like they ought to for a man so wronged with grief.[break][break]

They tasted weaker than they should have been.

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perhaps his resentments aren't there at all, muted under grief and guilt where he would've once misplaced them. he eyes WO-CHIEN behind her, though pays it no other attention besides the occasional glance to meet its gaze.

"you can blame kyle for that. but you did achieve one thing."

his arcanine sits, still tall enough to have its head petted by its trainer. his fingers tap against the fire-type's head, bouncing in repetition as he speaks.

"my ties to groudon have been severed."

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Her eyes wandered over the primal markings on his skin, glaring in their tie to the earthen deity. Despite herself, she still remembered how they felt against her skin, warm and radiant with power. She hated it, how well she remembered those things.[break][break]

"Have they severed fully?" she questioned him instead, her doubt palpable. "The League guards its darkest secrets well, then. Imagine the pandemonium if civilians knew you'd faced the same fate as your brother."[break][break]

He's lying. He has to be, she thought desperately, though only one shred of evidence pushed against that theory.[break][break]

She tried to ignore how calm he seemed, until she couldn't any longer.[break][break]

"...Is your mind quiet now, then?"

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the pandemonium would feel insurmountable, he imagines, not only for the league but for what remains of the silph brothers. once avatars torn asunder by team rocket. by the same person, in fact. the realization makes him chuckle.

at her question, he bows like a showman, showing little to no effort as his arms are raised to his side.

"i'd show you if i could."

he follows it with a nod.

"but yes, it is."

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She didn't know what to make of him when he was like this. She suspected that his showmanship had a mocking undertone, hinting at some cruel joke only he knew.[break][break]

"You must be happier, then," she said with a trace of bitterness. "Freed from the grips of insanity at last."[break][break]

Her arms wound about herself protectively, the thorns receding ever-so-slightly as she fixed him with a wary gaze. The mist rippled with the movement, trembling in place like specks of dust kicked up by a breeze.[break][break]

"Would be a happy ending, I suppose, if it weren't for the high cost that came with it."[break][break]

Despite the sheer hypocrisy of it all, resentment crawled out with her every word.

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