"No. I didnt care one way or another." Corvo is a private man, but he understands the inevitability of secrets getting out. "He would rather get it out of me piece by piece, I think."
"Mostly we either have pleasant conversations about nothing or we argue
about my life choices," Astarion says, shrugging again, bigger this time.
"I'm not sure what part of it constitutes 'wardening'."
"I don't love being on the Barge and I don't especially want to be dead. If
graduation is the only other option, then I suppose so, but I'm not
hugely wed to the idea."
"Well, if I graduate, then for one, I'm going to have to work out
somewhere else to go back to. My city isn't exactly hospitable to the
likes of me. For all the little quirks of this place, sometimes it's
better the devil you know."
"Because I'm certain graduation involves something along the lines of my feeling remorseful for what I did. And I don't. And cannot imagine a time when I might," he explains. "I did what was necessary. No more. No less."
"What are your current plans for the future?" Corvo's are simply to give up and expire because he's feeling particularly dramatic, but that usually fades.
"I thought so too," Astarion says briskly. "Unfortunately, burning him
right out of my city is also going to mean killing my 'siblings'. The
others he's turned. I don't relish the idea, but - needs must."
"Oh, I don't think so. Maybe I'm supposed to just go scuttling back into the shadows again, or - find some perfect third option where only the wicked need suffer."
"Well, my friend, for what little my opinion is worth, you're not wrong." He gestures around them. "It's simple to judge our choices when they aren't the ones who have lived the reasons."
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Date: 2024-05-27 10:16 am (UTC)"Hm. Did you ask him not to read your file, or - well, I'm fairly sure he can read."
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Date: 2024-05-27 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 11:30 am (UTC)Astarion chuckles, quiet and grim.
"Hells, that's exactly why I allowed my warden to read my file. Not that he's ever really mentioned it since."
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Date: 2024-05-27 11:33 am (UTC)He wouldn't just as rather they didn't exist.
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Date: 2024-05-27 11:59 am (UTC)"One more thing for insecure wardens to hold over the heads of their inmates?"
Astarion shrugs.
"Your guess is as good as mine, darling."
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 12:17 pm (UTC)"Mostly we either have pleasant conversations about nothing or we argue about my life choices," Astarion says, shrugging again, bigger this time. "I'm not sure what part of it constitutes 'wardening'."
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:20 pm (UTC)He knows there are inmates who don't care. He was one of them, for a while.
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:25 pm (UTC)"I don't love being on the Barge and I don't especially want to be dead. If graduation is the only other option, then I suppose so, but I'm not hugely wed to the idea."
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:27 pm (UTC)Corvo knows why he isn't - he hates himself and doesn't think he deserves a second chance! He does know this might not apply to everyone.
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:38 pm (UTC)"Well, if I graduate, then for one, I'm going to have to work out somewhere else to go back to. My city isn't exactly hospitable to the likes of me. For all the little quirks of this place, sometimes it's better the devil you know."
He glances at Corvo.
"What about you?"
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:42 pm (UTC)Which is as far into that concept as he's ever really gone.
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:53 pm (UTC)Astarion tilts his head thoughtfully and then bounces his own question back at him:
"Why not?"
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Date: 2024-05-27 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 02:28 pm (UTC)"Ah, yes. I'm probably in the same boat - no pun intended. Remorse for the past and some very different plans for the future."
He rolls his eyes.
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Date: 2024-05-27 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 02:33 pm (UTC)"Oh, going home and destroying the fetid nest of the man who made me a vampire and destroyed my life," Astarion says lightly.
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Date: 2024-05-27 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 03:54 pm (UTC)"I thought so too," Astarion says briskly. "Unfortunately, burning him right out of my city is also going to mean killing my 'siblings'. The others he's turned. I don't relish the idea, but - needs must."
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Date: 2024-05-27 03:57 pm (UTC)"Does that make it better? That you don't want to?"
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Date: 2024-05-27 04:27 pm (UTC)"Oh, I don't think so. Maybe I'm supposed to just go scuttling back into the shadows again, or - find some perfect third option where only the wicked need suffer."
He's rolling his eyes even as he says it.
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Date: 2024-05-27 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-27 04:33 pm (UTC)"Precisely. And frankly, I'm a little sick of being the one on the altar," Astarion says, sourly.
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Date: 2024-05-27 04:36 pm (UTC)