[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?

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[thelightbringer]

...Well, first of all he sees you all as a job. And because I haven't killed you yet, you're probably exactly the opposite of what he does like about humans. Or so he's likely to tell himself...

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I thought the first time I met him was with you?

[thelightbringer]

I meant after you returned. You remember meeting him before?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

No- but I've traced the fallout of it like ripples in a pond, all through this place.

[thelightbringer]

What fallout?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

The way things changed, after that moment.

[thelightbringer]

[Soft, demanding:] Tell me.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

No. I don't understand it enough to know I'm right, and I'm not going to pretend to guess.

[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.