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Thank you for giving me another chance. Your graciousness does not go unnoticed.

[ He won't say so, but he thinks it's more than he deserves at the moment. He's kind of fucked up a few times already, after all. ]

You have every reason to be wary-- I won't deny that. Far be it for me to tell you how to feel, but I swear I will not fail you. This time, I swear it. Forgive me my transgression, but I have only been quiet over the last few days for your sake. With your health waning, I thought it best you focus on healing and adjusting to your altered lifestyle, rather than on me. Perhaps that was not my place, but I only want the best for you.

Please send me to the city guarded by the plague doctors. I understand your hesitance; betrayal is difficult to overcome. If you cannot yet trust me wholeheartedly, allow me to prove my mettle there. Our friends and allies will be patient with us both. The City of Pandora will be going through many changes soon and I know you're looking forward to that as much as I am. I will not run in cowardice again. I intend to see this through. A holiday is coming up for you, isn't it? That's a prime opportunity to find people free for discussion. If we work together, perhaps we can convince more friends to come with us.

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Huh. You're awfully understanding.

She doesn't trust me to continue speaking loudly enough over a long period. That's my fault.

[ The matter is pretty clear cause-and-effect to him. ]

Still, you've got to be the first person I've met around here who'd own up to it.

[ He can't help smirking a little at that. ]

Perhaps you should be more particular about who you choose to speak with.

I don't exactly get a choice sometimes.

Isn't this a voluntary forum, though?

Only so far as they're concerned.

[ Ah, well, that explains the issue. ]

Were you forced to talk to me?

Nah. You looked interesting.

Because I'm so understanding?

It's certainly different.

...you want to go somewhere? Tch! Idiot.

[ Lancer doesn't even bother to dignify that with a verbal response. Instead, he just looks at him as though to say, "Care to elaborate on that?" ]

[No, he wouldn't particularly care to elaborate, but since he's here, and he ought to enlighten idiots...]

Anywhere that they want to send us? It's somewhere we won't like. Somewhere where things go wrong. Somewhere away from the things we need to do! If you want to go somewhere like that? Then you're an idiot. It's simple.

[ Hm. Lancer is a little impressed with how presumptuous he dares to be. Everything he just said is really presumptuous, considering Lancer is, as his old Master put it, just a ghost given form. ]

What makes you think I have better things to do? If you're afraid of facing challenges, that makes you a coward-- not anyone else an idiot simply because they do not share your perspective.

[ And anyway, his life has always been a thing where "things go wrong" so, really, he'd rather things go south on his and his mun's terms rather than on anyone else's. Lancer prefers to put more trust than he probably should in those who have authority over him in favor of making progress. ]

So you're saying you don't have better things to do?

[That gets an eyebrow lift. The last man he found that didn't have better things to do looked a whole lot more like a hobo than this guy.

That last guy also turned out to have a lot more things happening beneath the surface, too.]

I'm not afraid of challenges. I have enough challenges, and the idea of having more? It pisses me off!

[ Lancer only shrugs. ]

Then you shouldn't pass judgement on others who don't mind the extra weight on their shoulders.

I'll pass all the judgement that I want! You're dumb enough to want to suffer. You're dumber still for not even doing it for yourself.

[His head quirks in an oddly bird-like motion.]

Is someone waiting for you?

And what does it matter to you? Haven't you already made up your mind about me?

[ He declines from correcting the other man, despite how wrong he is. He wouldn't be practically begging his mun to take him somewhere if he wasn't doing it for himself. It's arguable that everything he's done as a Servant has been for himself, really. He answered Kayneth's summons because he wanted to do what he could not do in life-- serve a lord unconditionally. ]

It doesn't. But hero-types like you, they'll have someone they want to be foolish for. Usually.

[With a grin and a shrug he finds himself a spot where he can sit back and lounge. He could be wrong... and he might be fine with being wrong. Stupid heroes wanting to be heroes for the sake of it... They needed mocking, but they weren't so bad.]

And maybe it matters because my mun is getting itchy about having me go somewhere...

[With a sour expression.]

It seems my Writer has taken a certain amount of amusement in your title, for reasons beyond me. [She doesn't find it funny at all.

~~Come on Art, don't look at me like that...~~]

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Late and inane comment, I'm so sorry.