[voice] an idle curiosity in the middle of the night

[maddest]

If you could make the choice to lose one memory, what would it be?

If you don't feel like sharing the details of that moment, answer this instead- if you were really given the choice, not hypothetically in the future, but today, with all the realities and consequences you face, would you let the moment go? And would it change you?

How much of our darkest moments make us what we are?

Comments

[thelightbringer]

You traced the fallout, which means there was something to it. Stop playing coy and say it.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I met him with you, didn't I? Helping you?"

[thelightbringer]

So you remember why my family owes you. Do you remember why you did it?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm.

[Thoughtful, dragging out the hum.]

[thelightbringer]

[A heavy sigh]

Inquiring minds want to know, Xerxes~

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I had nothing better to do?

[He tries.]

Or maybe I secretly liked him.

[thelightbringer]

Wrong.

You'd never even met him. Try again.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Maybe I-

[thelightbringer]

I'd tell you to just spit it out but on second thought, I want you to think about it first.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

[A suitable pause, and a small huff.]

I really don't remember. But an educated guess might be that you weren't boring, that I wanted to see that place and knew you were the best chance I had of surviving it, and that just maybe I liked the idea of your being in my debt.

I wouldn't have been fool enough to think it would last, or that it would be worth much, but getting a tiny little edge of you under my thumb? For saving beloved brother? A whisper of a favour owed?

[thelightbringer]

Mmmm. And look where it got you.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You healed my eyesight, or so I'm told. It can't have been a dreadful mistake.

[thelightbringer]

Oh, I meant right now.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm not letting you anywhere near my face right now.

[thelightbringer]

Just your face?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That in particular. You're in a mean mood.

[thelightbringer]

You dangled Hatter in front of my brother.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I like Gabriel. I wasn't going to touch a hair on his head.

[thelightbringer]

Mmhmmm, pull the other one. There's nothing much innocent about you, Xerxes.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm hurt.

[thelightbringer]

Most people would take that as a compliment.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Whoops. I'm not playing my part very well at all recently, am I?

[thelightbringer]

No.... [Purring the words] You've got everyone else so confused now. And here you are just...enjoying yourself. For shame.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I sometimes feel as though all of it is hurtling towards a precipice. All the lies, half truths, charades, all the people here and their dreams, mistakes, attachments and misconceptions. One day someone will crack against another soul, there will be a single spark, and all of us will be engulfed, consumed by our own poison.

[thelightbringer]

We can hope. Whose soul do you predict will light us up?