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Amalthea / Barghest / Lethe.

[ And, with a start, you're somewhere else: A small, whitewashed room with another tinny woman's voice rattling off the walls. ]

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It used to be Yaksinis.

[wow my expression got a little dark there]

Aaaaaand you don't like her.

[ what does she win ]

In a matter of speaking, yeah.

[you'd win something if we'd gotten that far in my heartgame BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET OOPS]

Yaksinis was a little different. This Echo... well, Rook and I got a trial by fire with her last time around.

She's not going to give us good options in the end.

[ SOME DAY SOON ]

Yeah, because the others do that so often.

[An empty chuckle. Yeah, yeah, your point stands.]

Still. Just... be careful, alright?

I don't know what I'd do if you got yourself hurt again.

Technic. [ gentle but firm ] I can handle myself.

I know.

Doesn't stop me from worrying about you.

[ maybe she didn't break things as badly inside his heart as she'd been afraid of. her lips twitch in the vaguest smile, but the situation overpowers whatever good-feels come from this. ]

We're gonna make it.

...Yeah. We are.

[He gives a weak smile in return. Hahah I'm trembling a little but whatever it doesn't matter!!!]

[ give it another round; it'll be two of us ]

Who is that supposed to be?

[ frown ]

She is - was, I guess - an Echo that cycled with the seasons. Until recently, she ran her own sets of games, sometimes resorting to violence and bloodshed.

This new Echo that's taken her place is more... ruthless in her punishments.