ambiography | [pcs] beau

[she's fiddling with her phone when lucretia catches up to her, but she stops! and grins.]

Oh, hey Lucretia. Sure, what's up?

How familiar are you with staff combat?

[there's very brief hesitance here, before she holds her staff a little more tightly.]

I have the barrier now, but-- well, to be honest with you, I've mostly just relied on my spellcasting ability before. A little self defense might not be out of order.

[ah... yeah. beau shoves her phone in her pocket, sobering a little.]

I use a bo staff at home usually. So pretty familiar. I can help you practice, if you want. [...] We've got a couple of wizards with that same problem, which sucks.

... I'd appreciate it, if you don't mind. I'm not completely unfamiliar, but it isn't something I've often actually needed to practice.

[there sure are multiple wizards, though, and she sighs at the thought.]

I know others have been offering the same for swordsmanship, but I don't think that's necessarily the best sort of weapon for us to go with.

Not exactly. [y'all ain't proficient in swords so much]

But sure - actually, me and Caiman were thinking about doing a self defense class in general. I'm down for private lessons just so people get caught off guard, though. Element of surprise.

We can figure it out. Sooner the better, right?

Exactly. I don't think we have much time to waste, seeing as this is likely to continue-- and you're right about it being a good plan to keep it more private. Consider having at least three people there, though, for a witness in case of injuries.

[nodding.]

Maybe like, me, you and Yamato? I've been teaching him how to punch better. He could use some staff training too. [a beat.] Or like, me, you and Caleb. I guess that'd make sense, but I don't know how much he cares to learn how to use a staff.

If he does care to, then I certainly wouldn't object to it-- but I wouldn't have a problem if it were Yamato, either.

I can ask both of them. Might as well make sure we're all protected.

When do you wanna start?

As soon as possible, ideally-- but only if you're not already busy.

I got some classes and things like that I gotta do still, but... Thursday, maybe? If people don't come stumbling out of some fucked up thing, anyway.

I think that should work, yes. With any luck, we won't have a repeat of the situation.

[flurry i swear to god if you just mentioned this because beau is on a cyoa.]

[c:]

Yeah. Yeah, hopefully. Let's plan on it, then.

[and then it was SIZ who was the traitor.]

In the meantime- what do you make of that message, from earlier?

[I WILL KILL SIZ]

Which -- oh. The regrets one? Fucking stupid.

I think that about covers it, yes.

[it's absolutely fucking stupid.]

But I assume we won't be let off that easily if we ignore it.

... Probably not. [sigh.]

Did you wanna... like, trade, I guess?

[she-- really has to think about that one, for several moments. ideally she wouldn't share a word of it with anyone, but... well.

the thing is, she has absolutely zero trust this place won't make the consequences worse than it would be to just deal with this. it just means she has to both be careful who she picks and what exactly she says, and beau is already one of the very few people who know about the barrier.]

Only if you're comfortable enough with it.

It's whatever. Just don't get mad at me.

I won't get mad at you, Beauregard.

[somehow that just makes her think of caleb and her instinct is to scowl

a beat.]

You go first.

...all right, then.

[damn, what did she even say. she considers for several more moments, though, debating, before she exhales a sigh.]

I don't know how serious they are about the whispering bit, but-- I think it's better not to test our luck.

[and it's touch week anyway, so closeness is fine. she just leans in, voice lowered, a hand resting on beau's arm for a moment while they're in close enough proximity for that to kick in.]

I regret helping to create the very same dangers within our world that I've been trying to stop.

[ahhh, she sees.

there's a long pause while she absorbs that, and then:]

Yeah? [...] Making up for past wrongs then.

Yes. We didn't-- at the time, we had no idea of just what was going to happen. We knew it would be dangerous, but the extent of it, the actual capabilities of what we put into the world... what we did was a mistake, no matter our intentions at the time. In trying to save our world, we endangered it more than we ever anticipated.

[she watches lucretia for a second, like she's trying to figure that out, run it through, a few times.]

... Shit like that happens. You can't foresee damage you're gonna do like that. [a beat.] You said you guys are fixing it though, right? Are you close?

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