mental link | morning of day :039

[perroquet]

[ The ever present mental music that plays from the bard's end of the connection grows invasively louder sometime after breakfast, and it is rather anxious. The morning has been heavy enough already with packing getting underway, but this is due to something different. While the music in him is clear as ever, his thoughts stumble across the connection sloppily and desperately. ]

( I require a detective... I think. Oh dear, this is quite dire… )

[ He knows of several, but with the situation being as dire as he claims, well... he may need as much help as possible. All hands on deck. ]

( I believe someone has discovered that I am not Carbauschian, and... has poisoned me. )

[ The pauses between coherent thought are more than a bit dramatic, but he's being quite serious. ]

Comments

1/2, brief skating past some triggery shit

[whereabout]

[ For a long moment, he's not sure what to think, let alone what to say. Not that he's exactly the expert on protecting people here, he'd be the first to admit - he didn't know how to protect the Brights beyond getting away from them before they got dragged into something, and that still didn't work because he should've realized that Estelle was just going to chase him down.

So, okay. Bakugo probably knows more about that particular topic.

Even so. Despite the many moral and philosophical things that Joshua's wholeheartedly rejected since he left Ouroboros (the practical skills, not so much), there's one very cold-blooded truth that he can't picture himself ever changing his mind on: some people are so evil, and cause so much suffering, that killing them is the only way to deal with them. Weissmann. The people who'd run the brothel where he found Renne (the sheer nerve of calling it Paradise, with what they put her through). Whichever Erebonian noble had been willing to order the rape and massacre of one of their own villages, for no better reason than giving them an excuse to declare war.

He'd trust nothing less than death to keep any of them from a repeat performance (and honestly, he's not sure Weissmann would stay dead even then).

So despite his own lack of expertise on the matter of protection - ]

( That's the most naive thing I've heard in weeks. )