Argenti's Palace

[beautifulknight]

The stage is set they say;
They don their masks and shields,
Shadows creep and cover their minds;
Now, what beautiful role shall they play?

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮


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[bloodandstars]

[ Maika considers, for at least a moment or five, the potential attack strategy of just knocking this version of Argenti the fuck out with the foulest language she can muster.

...She's keeping that option in her back pocket. For now. ]

We find strength in unexpected places when we need it. He didn't make it this far without that.

[ People like Argenti, like Maika, who'd walked out of ruins like the ones she saw in that memory. She'll talk whatever shit she likes about Argenti, but hell if she's letting this empty reflection do it. ]

When you have something to fight for, it drives you forward. It reaches out and pulls you back from the darkest places a mind can fall into. What are you fighting for?

[beautifulknight]

[ The potential attack strategy being diverted for now is a mercy.

Argenti seems to tense at hearing this, as if somehow her words are agitating him further, or perhaps he is just simply deciding that he is ready to reject them at this point in time.

To the point that he immediately has decided that it is unacceptable to exchange any further word with her. ]

Enough.

If you wish for your words to have some substance, your only choice will be to meet me in battle!

[ After that, he will refuse to say anything else to her until the start of the battle. Incredible... ]

[bloodandstars]

You better fucking believe I was never leaving here without that.

[ Even — especially — if he'd snapped back to his sparkly self after just words. It's never that easy, is it? She didn't drag everyone across all of Golga because words were enough. ]

And that I came here prepared to do whatever it takes.

[ However distasteful.

Possibly... even hugging. Disgusting. ]