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[ Martin had always known that Lukas would kill him in the end. If not along the way, then surely at the end, once he'd gotten what he wanted out of Martin, whatever that turned out to be. When the Lonely rose up to swallow him, he'd accepted his impending death with ... what?

What did he have left, really? Numbness, mostly. A hallucination of Jon in the Lonely, looking for him, but - but that was impossible, ridiculous. His mind playing cruel tricks. He settled himself down in the frigid surf, knees drawn up close to his chest, unshed tears frozen to his cheeks and lashes.

And then. A door. A door that shouldn't exist, that couldn't exist. That he shouldn't take at all. The Lonely was terrible, yes, but it was quiet, and it was peaceful. Martin was aligned enough with it by now to very nearly enjoy it, in a strange and terrible way. The Spiral would be infinitely worse than this quiet beach.

But ... it was hope, too. In a strange way. Hope enough that Martin found himself turning the door handle and stepping through, leaving the false comfort of the Lonely behind him.

The transition was unpleasant. Long. But Martin couldn't remember it after; he only remembered stumbling out through the door of a supply closet somewhere deep in the Archives, blinking up at the dim bulbs that pretended to be sufficient. What time was it? Had he escaped? Where were Lukas and Elias now?

And where was Jon? ]

Date: 2020-08-15 01:52 pm (UTC)
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[Right? Absolutely preposterous.]

Well, you're not going anywhere soon, so we'll look into better blindfold solutions.

Date: 2020-08-15 02:43 pm (UTC)
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[That gets an amused huff, at least.]

Not that you wouldn't look fetching in a veil, lets try not to be too on the nose with the gothic hero thing.

Shades it is.

Date: 2020-08-15 02:48 pm (UTC)
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... That normally a problem?

Is that why you're without glasses right now?

Date: 2020-08-15 03:07 pm (UTC)
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[There's a pause there as a curiosity can't quite be put down. Especially with his shoulder still slightly damp and his own mind wheeling on it.]

... So, feel free to tell me off.

But... what happened there? All of that.

Date: 2020-08-15 07:06 pm (UTC)
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[Jon dead, him dead, and all of those new names, and still working, trapped in the hellish place at fault for it. (It was still hard to process Martin's earlier request to just not die in the events drawing closer. Just a week ago he would have had to really weigh whether anyone would care. Humbling and distressing in equal terms.)

It was no wonder he turned to some of the oldest solitary indulgences.

There were arguments he could make there. There wasn't a correlation. God how he knew that. The wrong thing didn't care about what time or what people it swallowed.

But this wasn't the time for it.
]

... Your finger, was the Boneturner, then. ... Somehow I'd just assumed it was some other part of the lonely.

[As much as he's determined not to interject opinion, it shows clear in utter annoyance on Tim's face at the 'she was right.']

Who is this Melanie, anyway?

Date: 2020-08-15 08:30 pm (UTC)
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Ah. [It comes out soft.

There's something near fear and something next to hope and neither of them exactly at that. He treats that with care, as if it could vanish at any second.
]

Okay.

I'll. I'll get in contact.

Date: 2020-08-15 08:51 pm (UTC)
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[Fisher... Fisher. OH. Toby.


... Right. Well.

Of the choices....

But he winces sympathetically. A family death can spur the best and the worst of decisions alike... And Martin has always cared too much, and shouldered responsibility that wasn't entirely his.

It's just, the most difficult sources they'd had recently was explaining off Jon's behavior...
]

... And he started feeding you to the Lonely, the way Elias did with Jon and the Eye? Or ... more dramatic than that?

Date: 2020-08-15 09:02 pm (UTC)
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[Why is it surprising to find the MO of the lonely is a domestic abuse? It shouldn't be. But somehow it just.. wasn't what he thought. God it fits.

But the turning that over breaks into a snarl.
]

Hurt you, how?

Date: 2020-08-15 09:24 pm (UTC)
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Christ. ... Yeah I'd stop too...

[He can imagine it. There were enough statements, laying it out in precise, horrifying detail. And his own experience with Prentiss and the Circus. What it's like to be in a realm so controlled, so inhuman it threatens everything you are.

He hardly notices his fist clenched, but his voice is tight with its own anger.
]

Right. So if we find a way to take him down too. On the list.

Date: 2020-08-15 09:32 pm (UTC)
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Look. I don't care. He signed up for supernatural bullshit. He's also just going to have to deal with deadly grudges from alternate hims.

Date: 2020-08-15 09:42 pm (UTC)
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[He. Settles a little.]

So, at least tell me he has no hold on you.

Date: 2020-08-15 09:45 pm (UTC)
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[He watches for those little ticks and tells of Martin trying to lie and..]

All right. That's the goal then.

Date: 2020-08-15 09:57 pm (UTC)
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Huh... I mean, it's only been a week and change, and you said there was three?

[Of course, this doesn't take into account how bloody-minded stubborn Tim would be at that point. How really close it probably came.]

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