mental link: day 34

[erbier]

[ It is actually quite late when Ilde's soft voice moves through the hosts, her scent of smoke and earth. She is at a club somewhere deep in the city, dazzled by noise and light, something you are free to establish if you look for it. ]

( It has been suggested to me by a hacker named Y that I throw a concert to lure our bombers out again. )

[ This part is forthright, a statement of fact with no value attachment to it. ]

( I believe she is questioning who I really am. If I refuse this idea, I may encourage that. )

[ This may not be strictly true, but it is how Ilde has perceived their conversation. ]

( She seems to know something, but is it worth losing my guise? If not, how am I to refuse this suggestion and maintain it. I do not know if she is a part of the group who contacted us before. She may already know I am false and this is all a game. )


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[deployed]

( Are you asking me to tell you why I'm a good pick? )

[erbier]

( No. )

[ Even more forceful. ]

( Why are you interested. )

[deployed]

( Because I think I could help. I don't want this to blow up in your face. There's no ulterior motive here. )

[erbier]

[ Her scrutiny is piercing, uncomfortable, buzzing in the link between them; sharp metal teeth. Y'know how Mara was like 'If Ilde trusts you' well... she doesn't. ]

( Thank you. I will be fine. )

[deployed]

( You don't know that. )

[ The point of contact between them shrinks, but doesn't snap. Bellamy wants to be away from that sensation. He doesn't like the sense of being examined so closely. He has too much he wants to hide. ]

[erbier]

( I will assure it. )

[ Best not to question her about that. ]

[deployed]

( How? )

[ immediately does the opposite of what's best, like a fool. ]

[erbier]

( However necessary. )

[ That has always been the way. ]

( And if I die I will have earned it for myself. )

[deployed]

( If you die, all of us have to feel it. )

[ aggressively stating the obvious. ]

( Take a team. I don't care if it includes me or not anymore. )

[ bellamy's not quite sure how to sever a connection entirely. but he retreats, walling himself off. dramatically storms away from this conversation. ]

[erbier]

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