video; post-infiltration (@inuyasha w/ @quickfish & @sonofodin)

[boxedcrook]

[There's video for once! The familiar brash, adolescent voice now matches with a (bruised) face: a screen half full of white hair, golden eyes, dog ears, and an incredibly sour expression. Does he have fangs when he talks? They look like fangs.]

If you're missin' a room full of people, I can tell you right where they are.

[It's hard to lean back when the comm device is attached to a necklace, but Inuyasha does anyway. Behind him is a crowded cell. Everyone's able to see some familiar Rost faces and Larson, some other civilians, as well as Hayame and Odinson.

Hayame, who looks shockingly less like a horse and more like a human, glares from afar, and if it could kill, it would have destroyed Inuyasha on the spot probably. On the other hand, it's a normal day for Odinson; he's indifferent to being stuck in a cell.]

I don't plan on rotting in here with anybody else, and this is all just pissin' me off. [This is, like, his preemptive warning to the guild or whatever.] We're two seconds away from busting out of here, and I don't care how we do it.

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[kisha]

... Then the answer is clear.

Those of us with honor will see to the lives of those without.

[secondnature]

Did you just suggest that you all kill each other?

[kisha]

Rather than be used as a weapon against our own allies?

If escape we’re not an option, then, yes.

[secondnature]

The obvious answer is that we get you out of there.

None of us could live with letting you guys die like that.

[kisha]

That is exactly why it would need be done.

There are those among you who value life more than honor, more than the mission.

But the mission must be seen to. It must.

[secondnature]

Not valuing life can be seen as dishonorable.

Did you consider that?

[kisha]

I have promised my lord that I will not die so easily- and that shackle is heavy yet.

Perhaps you or others do not understand my honor, nor that value.

But surely you understand that the mission must succeed. I would rather die than jeopardize what Hathaway has promised me- and surely I am not alone.

[why sign up for this shit without a cause you'd die for???]

[secondnature]

You can't put in all the time required if you're dead.

[Stated as if he doesn't expect her to refute that.]

[kisha]

Better to be dead than to live to see it denied through failure.

[she can't imagine it- failure being forgiven.

who would?]

[secondnature]

If you fail, you need to keep trying. You don't just give up.

[Keith is assuming that Hathaway will be forgiving on that particular note.]

[kisha]

There are mistakes, and there is failure. I do not confuse the two.

[even if tiny mistakes also just feel like tiny failures but ignore that]

[secondnature]

Why do you think that I don't? What makes you think that I'd confuse the two?

[kisha]

... Because there is no coming back from true failure.

[secondnature]

So, you don't have an answer for that. Not really.

[kisha]

[isidkformfkfkfke keithhhhh]

Just- do not endanger this mission for anything! Including any misguided rescue. That is my answer!

[secondnature]

I won't endanger the mission, but if we need extra feet on the ground, you'll have to take our decision for what it is.

[kisha]

Fine.

Just pray it is the right one, and not merely the compassionate one.

[secondnature]

Well, the good news is that neither of us make any of the team's final decisions.

[boxedcrook]

[He's talking over his shoulder, of course.]

Look, lady. Just because I don't want to risk whatever dumb mission everybody thinks they on doesn't mean I'm gonna roll over and let you just off me! Got it?

[kisha]

If you haven't the courage to take your own life I will gladly do it for you.

[IF IT COMES TO THAT...]

[boxedcrook]

[What the...?]

I'd like to see you freakin' try...

I'm not gonna kill myself either! What good are we dead? If they think I won't fight them tooth and nail, they've got another thing comin'. I'm not a push-over, and I'm not gonna let them use me against everybody else.

[kisha]

That is why I said if. I am in no rush to die myself, and would much rather pay them back in blood.

[WEIRD HOW YOU KEEP BRINGING IT UP IF THAT ISN'T THE CASE HAYAME BUT OK]