On finishing his AU timeline.

[bloodlined]

Took you long enough. A bit overdramatic at the end there, but at least it's done.

Now, why don't we try to keep our momentum going?

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[relinquishing]

I didn't mean the consequences for her.

[If your heart is really set on something, Riten, who knows what kind of trouble you'll be getting into.]

[bloodlined]

I'm wounded that you'd think so lowly of me. You think I'm some bloodthirsty animal, is that it?

[Only when there are redheads involved.]

[relinquishing]

Not in so many words.

["Snake" would be a better term. He was never a person for carnal urges to begin with. To wait and watch and strike when is best - that hadn't changed much, had it?]

[bloodlined]

[The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as it were.]

Look--do I really need to spell this out for you? No Score, no problem. [See? He can behave. Probably.]

[relinquishing]

And just how do you plan on doing that?

[It's true that being shackled by the Score is a sickening idea. But getting rid of the Score would't change what may happen in the future or what's happened in the past. It would only change how people view both and made decisions accordingly.

And it certainly isn't guaranteeing the problems of Auldrant would go away. Replica world or whatever else Van had planned to erase that possibility wasn't the solution.]

[bloodlined]

I don't--that's my point, or did you miss it? If she's sending me somewhere without a Score, then there's really no danger, is there.

[He knows how well it turned out for him in his own timeline, and even though he still espouses those ideals, he's not out to fix things if they aren't broken.]