003. and in every raindrop... // open post.

[icarusalsoflew]

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Waking the Dead 2.0 | Timeskip Shenanigans | Night before Taning's initiation

[bladeweaver]

[Taning has doubts. Serious ones. Not that he'd back out, only that he worries he's compromised his ideals somehow. He's not THAT worried, because he believes in Hikaru Shinta. But, well, he'd like to try and have those doubts allayed.]

SENT: 10:30 PM
Hikaru-san... for tomorrow's hit, and for all subsequent hits I will have to do, can I have your word that I will at least be told why that person had to die?

[Then:]

SENT: 10:32 PM
If you say it's because you said so, I'd take it. Because I trust you. But if it matters at all to you, it would make me extremely uncomfortable, not knowing.

[icarusalsoflew]

[Honestly? He was kind of expecting this.]

SENT: 10:34 PM
We kill because we have to and when we have to, Taning. No more, no less.

Finding another way is your prerogative. Getting the job done does not always have to mean ending a mark's life, especially if you're good enough to keep it from getting to that point in the first place.

alat nito right now

[bladeweaver]

SENT: 10:38 PM
Which is the entire rationale behind Zangyaku's primacy on strength. I understand. Thank you.

heh heh heh

[icarusalsoflew]

SENT: 10:40 PM
You're welcome. I suppose asking you if you're ready for this would be an insult to your resolve. :)

poor kid

[bladeweaver]

[Laughs a bit to himself; so very Hikaru to couch concern in an insult couched in a compliment.]

SENT: 10:42 PM
It's fine, really. You had to ask (and yes, Hikaru-san, I can feel the question mark you didn't type). It's not like this is a trivial undertaking.

[icarusalsoflew]

[YO MAN DON'T CALL HIM OUT ON THAT SHIT...]

SENT: 10:43 PM
Fair enough. :))

Get some rest, Taning. I'll see you at the end of the road.

[Because he knows you will make it.]

[bladeweaver]

SENT: 10:44 PM
I will. Thank you.

[For more than one thing.]