and it takes, and it takes, and it takes

[acherontiastyx]

[It... definitely takes a while for the weekly after-execution note to arrive, but it does --- kind of scrawly and on ripped paper rather than nice stationery.]

EY. YO. WE GOT EFFIGIES IN THE DINING ROOM AND WE'RE GONNA BURN EM.

FOOD TOO. THE USUAL AND HOT COCOA. GOOD FOR THE SOUL. GET SOME. MAYBE TAKE IT BACK TO YOUR ROOM IF YOU HAVE TO. JUST GET SOME.

[Anyway, in the dining room, there's plenty of mugs set out, with a janky looking arrow sign pointing into the kitchen to where you can get your hot cocoa. On the table, there's Vichyssoise, a pot of green tea, and some booze. There's also a cookie tray on the floor away from the table on which to burn the Wordsmith and Kimbley effigies, which are handily placed near the food on the table.

...also if you go in the kitchen without shoes on just. Watch the northern corner. There's no kidneys, but there's a lot of broken plates there for some reason...]

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[elepe]

[When the meat is typically your friends at home, one tends to avoid it, gosh Varric

Either way, Lusamine gets a little more engrossed into the story before he knocks, and she smiles when she sees what he brings in. It's perfect, as far as she's concerned.]

Why, thank you. You're incredibly kind to do such a thing for me...even with how difficult I was at the trial.

[neverheardofhim]

Maker, Lucy... [He closed the door behind him, figuring they could use a little privacy for whatever came next. Before saying anything, he delivered the plate to... wherever she was, then moved to sit against a wall.]

I can't imagine how it might have been for me, if it had been Sunshine and Bubbles up there. And if that were to happen, I could only hope for this kind of comfort. Guess I'm self-serving in that way.

[elepe]

[She's sitting on her bed for the time being, but she'll have gotten up to take the food--she's...usually a little more careful, but she can clean it up if the crumbs get everywhere.

...Even still, she...laughs? A little bitterly at Varric's words.]

We all are, when it comes right down to it. [She shakes her head.] That's just how it is, sometimes. I simply...wish none of this happened. If it didn't, almost all of us would perish, but...

[She wants to put the entirety of the blame on Kimbley's shoulders for this, but there's still a lot of facts about what has happened that are fucking right with Lusamine.]

[neverheardofhim]

Maybe someone else would have caught it... [He almost wished he hadn't gone to speak with Kimbley on Sunday. It had put him at ease, convinced him that even if he couldn't trust the man fully, he could at least believe that he wouldn't kill any of them. If he hadn't, he might have been the one to stumble onto him.]

I'd have taken the Shadow if it meant keeping everyone alive. The kids included. [Not to mention the fact that he had been itching to wrap his fingers around Kimbley's neck anyways.]

[elepe]

...You would have left those girls behind, if you had done that.

[As much as it feels hypocritical to say. Lusamine was prepared to do the same thing in the heat of the moment...]

There's really no way we could have known, is there?

[neverheardofhim]

Maybe. But it wouldn't have been so bad, if I knew women like you and Feather were there to watch over them.

[It was the same line of thought he'd had before, time and time again. Thus far, nothing had spurred him to action, but it wasn't so out of the question just yet. Gangrel was still a concerning anomaly, albeit less of one than Kimbley had been.]

[He couldn't relax just yet.]

I don't think so, Lucy. He even had me fooled.

[elepe]

["But it wouldn't have been so bad, if I knew women like you and Feather were there to watch over them."

...she has to kind of repeat that in her mind a few times, but...wow. She wasn't expecting that at all. It gets a mile out of her none the less.]

It's strange, isn't it? You think you know someone, what they're willing to do, and...then they turn around, and do something like this. It's an interesting world.

[...not. Quite the best words for that, but y'know.]

[neverheardofhim]

If I had a sovereign for every time I thought I knew a guy... [Then he wouldn't be nearly as rich as he had gotten writing about the blighted mess.] It's... it's something alright. Not something you get used to though.

[At least... he hoped he didn't.]