[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Ailee, Jackdaw![/b] Coleman’s talking to a Wet Trash Homunculus. Behold, a god(‘s avatar). You can [i]smell[/i] it from here. Jackdaw, how blissfully ignorant of the Flood’s capability of taking your anxiety from you are you? [/quote] Jackdaw is [i]entirely[/i] ignorant of the possibility. How could she know? Its roots run deep, and she cannot see how it could simply be gone without taking away the rest of her. [quote=@Thanqol] Ailee had been cupping her hands over her mouth in readiness to yell something over at the direction of Coleman and the trash god before Lucien begins begging for restraint. She looks back and forth between him at the sentient garbage with a look on her face that clearly communicates how little she appreciates being made to think about what she's going to say before she says it. Then she shrugs and starts tracing a finger through the air, leaving trails of fire in very readable cursive. It's neat and refined, the kind of handwriting that might be formalized into a font on a printing press for religious works. The content of the writing is itself less elegant. It starts with LOOK JACKDAW! I HAVE UNCOVERED THE SECRET OF WHERE THE FISHMONGER'S SEWAGE OUTFLOW IS and it goes downhill from there. Ailee looks at Lucien expectantly, hopefully, with wide eyes and an innocent little mousy smile upon her face. [/quote] Wrinkling her snout at the smell, Jackdaw produced notebook and pencil from her cloak. She wrote. She scratched out. She wrote some more. She thought. She scribbled bits out. She ran out of space. She turned the page. She gagged and coughed. She frantically wrote, and held it out to Ailee. [i]NO! BAD![/i] [quote=@Count Numbers] Do I even need to say that the second Ailee's finger has started glowing he's already put his entire, much taller body, between Ailee and the trash god? Hopefully the Flood can't read backwards letters easily. "I'm going to have to shoot her, you know," Lucien sighs to Jackdaw, "One day, I mean. There's going to come a point where shooting her is either going to be the nicest thing we can do for her, or the only way we can get out of something alive." Grimace. [/quote] ...she made a slight addendum, and held it out to Lucien. [i][u]NO!!! BAD!!![/u][/i] [quote=@Balmas]The wrench hits the floor of the raft like the gavel of judgement. "I have neither shame nor guilt to give you," he snaps. "And I value suffering too much to exchange it for the soporific stupor of false life. This journey will end either in glory or death, and I'll hang before I let Sasha down! I have a [i]duty![/i]"[/quote] [i]*flip*[/i] [i]*scribble scribble scribble*[/i] She held out her notebook. A little doodle of Coleman, standing brave and strong and heroic atop his dear Sasha, stared back at them. A pause. [i]*scribble scribble scribble*[/i] She held out her notebook. Some additions: A skull, complete with X’s over the eyes. Three more arrows, one pointing to each of them. Question marks, by the arrows, with more being added by the second.