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[maddest]

I'm setting up communal clotheslines here, for anyone whose bedding is waterlogged. Bring as much strong wire or string as you can if you can find it.

We work best when we aid one another.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Only one a night.

[thelightbringer]

Xerxes. [The most serious of tones.] If you're looking for restraint, I'm not someone you should be around.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That's what you have me for!

[thelightbringer]

To restrain me? [Deeply amused.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

To teach you how to survive in a place like this.

[thelightbringer]

[There's a slight chill to the air that wasn't there before.]

This isn't the worst place I could be.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I know. I imagine you've lived through horrors that I couldn't even dream of.

But I know how to live in Adstringendum and be happy.

[thelightbringer]

I don't think I'm capable of it now, Xerxes.

[Not said with any regret--just a sort of resignation. 'I lost my hand', 'I can't walk', 'I can't be happy'.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Maybe. But you're not too afraid to try, are you?

[thelightbringer]

Oh, I have been. This whole war has been about happiness.

[He brings a knee up, and rests an arm on it.]

But this place is the closest I've come. Without Hell and Heaven to think about, there are other things....

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Gabriel, Raphael, Michael.

[He recalls, licking fruit juice off the side of his hand.]

[thelightbringer]

[Lucifer snickers]

It didn't take you long to learn the family dynamics.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

It's obvious, even to blind men.

[thelightbringer]

Oh? Any other obvious tidbits?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That things are probably going to get worse before they get better.

[thelightbringer]

If there is worse than what we've already been through, you should hope you find a way out of here first.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Ah, we'll see.

You just need a little faith.

[thelightbringer]

...Things have been getting better. It's taken time, but--there's my faith. [In something that is currently happening, and a tentative hope that it will continue.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

And faith in me!

[thelightbringer]

Does that mean you have faith in me now?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Not yet. I'm the one proposing to pick up the pieces in this little fiasco.

[thelightbringer]

[Not quite snickering]

Is it a fiasco already?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

[Yawning.]

I think I have to get home.

[thelightbringer]

All right.

[He's not so much of a nice guy that he'll walk him back.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

We'll have tea soon.

[He decides, firmly, standing.]