pc catchall for vi

[agleam]

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[doublefists]

[ like, the emotion of ??? at this, and then kind of bemused... ]

Hah - hah, no. Stillwater's the place you go when people want to vanish you, man. She didn't know where I went.

[agleam]

Jeez... That must have been really hard.

[after a moment]

I'm glad you found her eventually, but you said she was going by different name...?

[doublefists]

[ going by the thing that vi called her, yeah, that's good for the guilt.

she nods a bit. ]

Working for the guy that you just saw. The one that killed Vander. [ there's a lot of emotion she's pushing down about this - stuff she hasn't really ever worked through. stuff that she doesn't know how to work through. ]

I don't know what happened. I didn't see it. But she was different.

[agleam]

[...]

It isn't your fault that you weren't there. You know that, right?

[doublefists]

[ well you see yes it was totally her fault forever ]

It was, actually, that whole - all of that was on me. I led them into the mess that got us there.

[ the guilt is... oppressive. she glances away. ]

[agleam]

Vi... You couldn't have known it would end like that.

[doublefists]

[ silence, for a long moment. ]

There's no fixing it now, so it doesn't... really matter.

[agleam]

[he doesn't want to make her pull away by commenting on that directly, but after a moment:]

You were just a kid. I think you'd be understanding if it was anyone else who went through that, but... I know it's different when it's something you've experienced.

[doublefists]

[ you know, i don't know if anybody has been like, you were so young, when she's shown them this. ]

Wasn't that young. I was old enough to know better. [ she says, but he's right, she was like... fifteen. she could've made better decisions, but she didn't, because she'd just watched her entire family die. ]