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It is my understanding that we were gathered to function as a team. A concept that is, perhaps, difficult for many of us to become accustomed to, but a path we have had no choice but to take in any case.

Yet here we are, already faced with danger enough from our missions, and we are equally forced to fear one of our own as well?

Explain to me why we should endure the presence of a monster who cannot keep his nature in check. How many were injured by Koltira's hand, yet all of us remain silent.

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I should think that is obvious. How many of us did he injure, Olivia?

[ her voice is low, and tired. ]

So now you propose we injure him in turn? Because that's what this sounds like.

And do you propose we do nothing? Because that is all that I am seeing!

Then you're not looking hard enough!!

[ it isn't often olivia yells, though hanzo had witnessed it once before, there in the caves amidst all the others cheering on. but this time is different, her voics strained and sharp. ]

Were you there, Hanzo? How many have you healed? How many did you have to put back together? Don't you dare tell me none of us have been doing anything.

[It is different. It does give him pause; he has no pleasure in arguing with Olivia, but his temper, alas, wins out.]

It is not about healing. It is about not accepting the responsibility of what he has done.

My brother! Do you think I will just sit and let this happen?

[ if she were surprised at all to find genji on that list — that ever-growing list, it feels so endless now — she does not make a sound of it. rather, she has to rein herself in, understanding the full force now of hanzo's anger.

and it only makes her voice turn cold. ]

So that's what this is about. Revenge.

Call it whatever you wish.

But I will not suffer this.

Do you think you're alone in your suffering, Hanzo?

[ she's getting pretty damn tired of men who cannot control their own anger, who cannot see past their own obstructions. ]

Always.

[It's blurted out angrily.]

...No.

[He can't apologize for that. Not that she doesn't deserve to hear it, but--]

It was spoken with no thought. But what else can be done, Olivia? I cannot forgive!

[ all she does is heave a heavy sigh. she shifts, and wood creaks from the chair she had been leaning heavily against. ]

If you fight him, you will lose. [ at this point, it is just plain fact. she has seen what he can do, twice over now. she has even felt it herself. refusing to admit the depths of his powers at this point is just foolish. ]

You'll get hurt, and hurt those that care about you in turn.

[ she rubs at her eyes, feeling the strange sting of tears behind them, but her body suddenly too exhausted to even expel them. ]

Just because you can't forgive doesn't mean you have to spill even more blood.

Then what else can be done?

[He takes no pleasure in putting her into this position. Olivia sounds worn out. And he does not enjoy hearing her this way.

But his anger is not easily tamed, either.]

Do I simply let this transpire?

[ she is quiet for a long, long time. ]

There's a way to make this conversation private, isn't there?

Yes. There is.

[ she does not know how it has changed, but simply trusts enough in him that is has. she prefixes her words with a long, drawn out sign, that may or may not quiver a bit as it tapers off. ]

If all you wish to do is hurt him for your brother, I know that he would let you.

...I see.

[It sinks in, a little. And then it immediately irritates him to know that he relates to that idea. How much he'd have welcomed death or punishment for how thoroughly he failed Genji.]

That is not what I seek.

Do you even know what that is anymore?

I need an answer. What can we do? If anything.

[ she shrugs, though he cannot see it. the bedroom she's left to is quiet and cold, and though logically she knows it is due to winter, and the fact that she hasn't really moved around since she'd taken a seat there so many hours ago, her heart still cannot shake off the feeling that it has always been this cold, since that very night she and achilles returned from his own confrontation with the death knight.

she can't help but wonder if it'll ever be warm again. ]

Understand. Prepare. Listen when he warns us. [ there is something rueful in her tone, echoed by the twist of her lips that seems almost like a smile if it weren't so incredibly hollow. ]

I haven't met a person yet who can match him. When he gets that way, he... it's very hard to reach him. [ "it was because of you... i saw your face." ] But he is not entirely lost.

I cannot control those who ignore his warning. Or his plight. [And Genji, too forgiving. As always.]

Your heart is too warm, at times.

You can only control yourself, [ she agrees. but isn't that the point?

she quiets, though, at his words. whether he means them to be an insult or not, they make her lips grow thin, and her eyes sting once more. ]

Let my heart be my problem, [ she finally responds after a moment. it always has been. ] But rest assured, I'm working on it.

[ whether that is the right way to go or not.. it is a hardened promise. ]

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At times, I do not always know that is true.

[But she isn't wrong.]

...Your heart will always be a concern of mine, Olivia. Though I do. Apologize if I have troubled you more than you already were.

Then maybe both our hearts could use some working on.

[ she makes no mention of his apology though, because it seems unimportant at this point. since when was any of this about her? ]

...Perhaps that is so.

[ there is another long pause as olivia considers her options.

before long, though, she speaks up again, and this time her tone is notably lighter. ]

Have you eaten yet, Hanzo?

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