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Sammy looked to Rep, even as Candace moved to comfort G. She smiled shrugging her shoulders a bit to him. "Always where, just didn't know it back then." Jing was next and she only nodded again, "Well all see each other later, just might take a while before that hap-"

She couldn't finish the thought, Serafina was suddenly knocking into her and G hugging them both tight. It caused her to stumble just a bit before she ran a hand through the other girls hair, "H-hey now c'mon... I just... I'm looking at it as a long nap. Like I said, I don't sleep, it's my thing and... I've wanted to sleep for a while, just relax and hear silence for once so... yeah. Now's a good time for that."

She smiled at the last part, "Just don't let them go killing our king alright? Be a real shame if they ruined this place after I left." The next thnig she noticed was Nuk stomping towards her, quickly she guided Serafina to the side stepping towards Nuk.

"CALM THE ******** DOWN YOU IDIOT!" Suddenly he was against her practically howling her name in her face. Her own hands moved to grab at his collar tugging him in as he spoke, panicked, honest, fast. It was a rush of feelings.

"Idiot you can't go, you have your sister and I'm not letting you leave her behind. You're going to die for me? Hell no Mutt. I wouldn't let you leave her for me." She let go reaching into her jacket unhooking the holster she often carried Ixxy and Obsidian in. "Take these. Go teach her how to use one, and keep one for yourself. Protect. Her. She's as important to you as the King."

Carefully she worked to slip the holster around his own waist, once it was done she did something unexpected, her hands slid up his cheeks cupping them tugging him into one last kiss as he refused to let her go.

When they finally parted she smirked, "Always knew you did, just too big of a show off to man up and say it, glad to know you can say it when it counts... and if I see you on the other side, it better be after you die from being an old crouchy b*****d."

Letting him go she moved towards Rep and Candace to rejoin them properly. Quietly she nodded to them both before turning to Rep, "Take care of him, Nuk, he likes you, and he's going to need someone when I'm gone. I know... you have a lot to worry about." She looked towards Harrison smiling sadly, "I'm... just asking that as a last request alright? Make sure he doesn't go following me down the rabbit hole anytime soon alright?"

He didn’t like having to sit and let them touch him, but it seemed that the marks were on everyone. He would have to deal with it. He allowed them to put their mark on his face, unable to see it. He felt both a sense of loss as his horns and wings vanished but something else took its place, power. Like a small high. He felt stronger, and a little safer. He was still himself but different, like there a fire burning in the pit of his stomach. He would simply have to adapt, an quickly.

“Thank you, I’ll do my best.”

Rep was somewhere far away.

When he was surrounded by death and destruction, when grief reached breaking point, he cut off. He always had, it had been his coping mechanism in life, when things reached a critical point and he felt like he might drown underneath his own emotions. There was too much hurt and pain. Once again he was numb as he had been at Harrison's bedside, waiting for the axe to fall, waiting for someone to turn off the flat lining monitor.

Sammy addressed him and he nodded, still telling himself she wasn't real, none of this was real and not believing it.

The mention of Nuk prompted a single solitary emotion to slip free of its shackles. Self loathing. He was a reminder of what his other self had been."I'll take care of him." he said, following the others into the back.

The shattering of glass seemed to reflect well upon him, for whatever reason. He sensed rather than saw Riyo walking away, and selfishly, he was glad. She was broke, damaged--but there was good in her yet, potential that needed to be tapped and embraced. It would be a difficult journey, but in the end--in the end, he hoped it would be worth so much more than giving up would be.

"M'sorry." He managed to say as he felt Sammy squeezing his hand, scrubbing furiously at his face as though that would hide his shame. "I know. Not sad for me." He tried to explain, his voice still thick with tears. "Jus'. Sad fer everyone else." For their suffering. For their loss. He didn't have to live with it, but they would.

Just when Gargantuan was starting to get control of himself again, Rep brought a fresh wave of tears, and the big man had to duck his head to hide his emotion. "Y--Yeah. Would do anything for my family." He hiccuped, forcing himself to swallow even as Candace came closer. She was a beautiful woman, Candace, and he had to resist the urge to pull her in close just so he could try and smother these emotions out of himself.

"Know you will." He rumbled, scrubbing his eyes once more before he hesitantly made to take her arm. It felt a little strange--but nice. His dark eyes lifted to Jing for a moment, currently red and watery. "You keep 'em safe. Your sister, too." But they were all sisters and brothers. Ying earned a shaky smile. "And you make sure he doesn't do anythin' he shouldn't."

As Saliva approached, Gargantuan unconsciously tried to push his shoulders back and stand a little straighter. "You're a beautiful lady.' He said honestly, more bluntly than he ever had in his life. "And I'm--I'm real sorry I can't be around to get to know you better." There. That was as much of a confession as he could make, right now, and Serafina's interruption was very welcomed.

"D-Don't cry." She was making his own throat close up. "Don't cry, Senator. Sammy and me, we... We wanna do this..." As she patted his shoulder and focused on him alone, he felt the tears flood down his cheeks anew. "Means a lot to me, ma'am. I won't ever forget none of you."

Nuk's grief made him turn away again, giving the man some space and privacy. He did manage to catch Jordan's eye, and at the thanks, he unconsciously reached up to doff his hat. He didn't deserve thanks. He was just doing what was necessary.

Last, but certainly not least, his eyes fixed on Taima, the only one who seemed unmoved and in control of herself. "Just a sec," He murmured to Candace, gently pulling himself free so that he could approach her. "Don't want my--my hat, gettin' dirty." He stumbled over the words, and he pulled it from his bald head to uncertainly thrust it into her arms. "I'll--you can--do what you want, with it. Just--don't want it gettin' dirty."

His hands caught her shoulders for a moment, looking at her until he could finally force the words out. "You gotta keep goin'. Gotta get to that nice beach somewhere, when this is all over. Somewhere you can be happy."

He had to stumble back and away then, unable to look at her any more as he made his way back over to Candace and Rep.

Feh. All this emotion over such a silly thing. Such a simple practicality. Malodore rolled its eyes behind its smoked lenses as people made their petty farewells and spewed their hearts everywhere. Messy, that was what it was. So messy.

Still. It was, evidently, time to practice medicine. Remove aberrations, tumors, foul things that blighted the body. But... if they were going to die anyway... Its gaze turned to the two who had volunteered. A bit of an appetizer, si?

It bit its own lip, drawing blood. No. It could do field surgery later... though its hand twitched towards where it kept its scalpel...

ANDREW CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE POWER.

Ying knew how his sister was. optimistic, hopeful, wanting to find a way. it was endearing, it was part of why he adored her so much, a little ball of sunshine in a seedy casino town.

Right now, it was nothing but hideous.
It was a tumble of emotions, grief and heartache and emphatic to everyone around him, and turned instantly to blatant irritation. 'Quiet Ying." he snapped quickly, bopping the young lady on her head again, this time less playfully than the last. "Don't spit on their sacrifice." It was one thing to see a dead man walking, it was another to give them a tiny shred of hope for salvation before taking it all away, breaking their conviction.

Giving a man saltwater on the brink of their death due to dehydration was the cruelest joke of them all.


mostly because, deep down, he wanted there to be a way to save them as well.

The king had the kindness to sent them away to die as he killed their family at home. If one could call it kindness. "Its time to move out." he ushered his little sister away from the ones who would stay behind, nudging the skin walker to come along. If there was anyone who needed a person to lean on, It was Nuk.

"Goodbye G, sammy. We won't forget you." and at least to him, he would get his revenge for your deaths.

Rep didn't leave immediately, leaving the side of the condemned to look back. There was something cold in his expression. He had loose ends to tie up, and a little rabbit he intended to save from the battlefield. Mercy. It wasn't mercy that prompted him to ask Nuk to stay.

"Melvin. Nuk." he said. "Don't leave right away. I want to speak with both of you personally before the battle."

He smiled but it didn't seem to reach his eyes. "Tactics."