On the poly_chromatic app his mun is working on

[likehim_likeme]

Do you think sending me to that place will change anything? You may send me as far from Paris as I may go, and all I will leave behind is the scandal born of my own choices. It will remain as I told him; however pure a soul is, I will corrupt it.

I could call it the manifestation of the sin of my birth; I could lay it all at Mother's feet for making me what I am. Yet it all comes down to my choices, does it not?

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[onlydancing]

Jean-Paul...

[likehim_likeme]

Lilith...

I won't let you disappear again.

[onlydancing]

I'm sorry, Jean-Paul, but... I had to leave Paris. Since I was only a burden... to you... and to Mother.

[likehim_likeme]

[A quiet scoff.] Mother... [Really, when have they not been a 'burden' on their mother?]

You would not have been a burden.

[onlydancing]

Losing my eyesight, it made me worthless. Good for nothing, because I couldn't dance with you anymore. Couldn't dance like Mother should have done...

[likehim_likeme]

Lilith...

We will still dance, Lilith. In that place, I will help you learn to dance without sight. You will see that you are not worthless, not good for nothing.

[onlydancing]

Jean-Paul...

Your hands -- [She reaches for him, for his hands, her own searching her nearest vicinity.] -- Let me feel your hands.

[likehim_likeme]

[He touches her hands, wrapping his fingers lightly around hers. Light enough that if she wants to feel his hands over, she can.]

[onlydancing]

These hands. [She frees one hand and runs her fingers over the back of his, gently.] These hands will help me learn how to dance again. We'll find the light again, won't we? Jean-Paul?

[tenshinohikari]

It always comes down to choices.

Perhaps you should stop making poor ones.

[likehim_likeme]

Can Man ever truly stop making poor choices?

[tenshinohikari]

Are you seriously asking me that?

[likehim_likeme]

Eh, call it a rhetorical question.

[tenshinohikari]

[A sardonic laugh]

You're learning.

[likehim_likeme]

I had an effective lesson.

...I may have just wanted to use this icon

[tenshinohikari]

I've been told I can... offer good lessons.

Wording + Icon = DYING OVER HERE

[likehim_likeme]

[A short but derisive laugh.]

Good, hm?

[longestfall]

With or without my influence, you remain as tasteless as ever.

[likehim_likeme]

Ah, a bright side appears. I won't have to see you.

[longestfall]

I may be going there too, Jean-Paul. With the both of you.

[likehim_likeme]

[Someone who is not Jean-Paul is reaching greedily for this.]

Somehow, I find myself expecting that despite your reaction to Lilith when she died, you will continue to be the rude and cold woman I have always known.

[longestfall]

Aren't you the rude one? Creating travesty time and again...

[likehim_likeme]

As I've said, you did make me what I am. Mother.

[longestfall]

I gave birth to you, nothing more. And nothing less!

[likehim_likeme]

Nothing more? I didn't realize cursing my existence was 'nothing more'.