♘ Peridot

[dramatispersonae]

[ You find yourself focusing on the maze, to the exclusion of everything else. It seems to almost be growing larger, the longer you look at it . . . ]



((OOC: It is impossible to do anything but move forward in the maze or decide to leave. Anything you leave "behind" will be returned after you leave endgame. This is not something that will be known IC, however.))

Comments

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

But I don't need to heal people. You need strong for that.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

[shakes his head] I can heal when I'm pretty badly hurt, I remember doing it.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

Ven... I just... it should be me.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

Cassie...why? I know you feel less pain. It's...fair, to let the person who hurts the least get hurt. But...

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

[her voice is low]

I... want to help. You get to heal people. Lelouch and Gil make food and clean... this is what I know how to do. It's what I can do to help. I don't know how to do other things. I know... people say I don't have to do things but... I don't feel like I help. I just... want to be useful.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

[looking kind of heartbroken for a moment, and then burying his face in his hands]

Cassie...I can't...I've never understood why you feel...you fit into Peridot, they love you, they respect you, they listen to you, they always have...I had to work for weeks to feel...

[voice low and almost shaking with intent] I'm...just trying...for the least pain. You'll feel it, Cassie, I remember when you got your foot crushed. I won't. Not one bit. If this was any other day, if I'd given up any other sense, it'd be different, but right here and now, I can give a pound of flesh without blinking, without you or Thorn or anyone else having to feel so much as a papercut. So that you don't have to hurt yourself because it's the only way you--

[catching his breath]

Cassie, I love you. We love you. Hurting for us...you don't have to right now. I'll make the sacrifice or I'll turn back.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

[sob tears]

I want to. I want to do this! It isn't fair!

[but there's a degree of resignation in her voice, too]

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

[oh no tears; flinching and looking pretty much miserable]

Cassie...i-is it...do you want to help, or do you want to get hurt?

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

I want to help, but... I don't care about being hurt. I don't mind.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

But...we do...

Cassie...you feel pain less, so you'll take a wound for a teammate, and that means a lot to you. I get that. Because I feel exactly the same right now.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[silentknight]

[wipes away some tears, frustrated]

Do what you choose.

Re: ♘ Bonus Round

[unionoftheheart]

[god, I am going to be hiding from you for so long after this]

[probably crying a little himself as he turns away, goes BEHIND A HEDGE so nobody has to watch, pulls off his shirt, summons his keyblade, cleanly lops off his left hand without a sound, wraps his shirt very tightly around the stump, and sinks to his knees, pale from blood loss, to wait for endgame, keyblade on hand in case he needs to heal himself]

[weakly] I sacrifice a pound of flesh, Green Knight.