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[Game 18] Endgame
It's early morning by the time they tidy up the house and fix the windows—leaving it as neat as they'd entered it, Tristan promises—and head out. Tristan seems to be itching to just get away from the place, though they can't return to the church, and it's now New Year's Day—so they head back across the border to the house in New York. Even Sariel comes along—albeit reluctantly—at Tristan's suggestion.
"To my understanding," Tristan says, "the kid's with Sera right now, which I'm cool with. I was a bit rough on him, so he might be sleeping it off for another little while—and like you all said, he might be a bit freaked out to see a dozen people staring at him. So let's leave him there for now. I can send you all home." He pauses.
"But if you want to come back soon . . . I can bring you back. No agenda necessary. If you don't want to come—well, let me know, and I'll try not to bring you."
"To my understanding," Tristan says, "the kid's with Sera right now, which I'm cool with. I was a bit rough on him, so he might be sleeping it off for another little while—and like you all said, he might be a bit freaked out to see a dozen people staring at him. So let's leave him there for now. I can send you all home." He pauses.
"But if you want to come back soon . . . I can bring you back. No agenda necessary. If you don't want to come—well, let me know, and I'll try not to bring you."
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How fancy! How fancy!
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[seems a bit flustered]
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There's something dark in me, right?
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Obviously the one that sees everything sees something good in you.
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[shut up //////]
You mean you don't see stuff like that all the time? No special angel vision or some nonsense?
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I can sense life, of course. Ah, you're red.
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Am not.
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. . .
I wonder . . . who I think asked me to look after you. Madison, or Gabriel.
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I don't really....
I'll never be able to understand what Madison and Gabriel are going through existing like they do. Where one ends and the other begins. If it feels crowded and suffocating or if it's like fighting sleep afraid you'll never wake up...
But whatever it is and whoever told you. You're looking after me all the same. And maybe they're both happy with that.
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It's—I don't know why it frightens him so. It's—is it not just his calling? I don't understand. Those, like Raphael and his host, that choose to remain so separate. I am just Sariel. Hassan is also Sariel. We were chosen this way and have work to do.
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And Madison probably already felt a little lost and swallowed up by things by being a seer. I'm not surprised he's stubbornly clinging onto the identity he has when it feels like he already had a lot taken from him.
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What if you want to be normal? Go to school and come home to parents and play on your phone when you're not suppose to?
And everything is so complicated for you guys. Wars and frightening situations all the time.
And changing is scary. I don't want Madison to change. Does becoming one or whatever mean he'll feel differently about.... Things?
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Maybe he should do it but that doesn't make the situation right. It's unfair and cruel and....
Maybe you can't see that but it's all I can see. All I see is how much it's taking from him.
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[voice raising even louder than usual]
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It doesn't matter right now. It's all out our hands anyway.