"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 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)