ThornsWithoutRoses



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    A study in escapism, and inevitability.


    "Give me a reason to," she snaps, finally grasping her Slate.

    "They're my memories."

    Zelda looks at him. Takes in his knit forehead and the desperation she's never seen in him until now. She swallows, struggling to keep her voice from trembling as she whispers, "They're mine, too, Link."

    His heavy gaze dips, and for a moment, the crackle of her fallen torch is all there is. The seconds tick by. Five. Five more precious seconds he's stealing from her.

    That she's letting him steal from her.

    Then, his eyes lift, and he says:

    "Let's make a deal."

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    "Uhm. Caine, I… need to ask…"

    "Ask away!"

    "A-are you… sentient…?" It feels silly to ask after several weeks in the circus, but then again they've never really had a proper conversation before.

    "Indeed!" Caine answers brightly. "It was one of the key requirements for the ringmasterAi program."

    ...Oh.

     

    One of Caine's adventures makes Pomni realize just how much he has to deal with.

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    After being deleted by the humans, Caine sits alone in the recycling bin.

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    “It's… he pulled them,” Jax blurts.

    Pomni blinks up at him, uncomprehending.

    “Your… ears?”

    Jax nods, swallowing back the bile building in his throat.

    “Pulling them hurts?” Pomni guesses.

    “You… he pulled them until I–” he sucks in a breath, letting it out in a shaky exhale. “I'm not… It's like a costume, Pomni. He tore it off.”

    Jax grapples with the aftermath of the torment nexus.

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    “So,” he said, “You are to be our grandson’s wife.”
    “An it pleases His Serenity and our father,” said Csethiro Ceredin. Her voice was deeper than he had expected, and she seemed to have to work to keep it from carrying.
    “And how does it please Csethiro Ceredin, pray?” said Maru. 
    “As well as it pleases any lady chosen to be Zhasan, we have no doubt,” said Csethiro coolly. 
    Saying that to Chenelo Sevraseched’s father was either stupid or deliberately brassy, and Maru had already ruled out the likelihood of her being stupid.

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