[ 05 ] ✿✿ [ Closed ]

[angramaintsu]

Characters: Dark Rin & Archer
Setting: Floor 32
Time: Backdated to December 28th
Format: Quick
Summary: Rin "disappears" and Archer hunts her down.
Warnings: Implied things

[ A wonderful night. That is what took place the eve prior and now she lays curled up in a clearing of the forest. It's cold, but she doesn't find it to be bothersome. There's only peace to be found as a result of what took place.

This is why she doesn't think of her Servant. In these woods, she feels a peace that she's never felt in her life. Maybe at one time when she was a little girl curled up in a bed alongside her sister, but since then? There was that time with her Archer.

No, her Servant. Groggily, she'll be lifting her head with hair full of branches and leaves without bothering to brush them free. For now, she needs to find him before he finds her. On her own terms. Unfortunately for her, it'll be Rin with E-Rank Luck instead of her Servant. ]

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[angramaintsu]

[ Her tiny hands clutch at the fabric as she lingers with holding it near, not wanting to have to return it. So she'll take her time in getting dressed all with the intent of keeping something of his in her possession. ]

I, I know that! [ Stubbornly she defies him by trying to not let his words sink in. They do though and she thinks of herself as having some strength. ] I was just confused a moment again. I don't do well when I first woke up and here you are having a serious conversation with me.

Geez, I would only make that sort of mistake when I'm this tired. [ Grumbling, she finishes pulling her clothing on over her form and remains seated with his garments in hand. ] I won't let you kill him though. None of them.

I chose this. [ She reaffirms. ] So you'd have to kill me for doing this to myself.

[swordedpast]

[ He looks away as she dresses. He's already seen enough, and the images planted in his head are worse. But he can pretend. ]

Yes, I'm being a difficult sort of Servant again. My apologies, Master.

[ But that won't stop him from being sarcastic. ]

If it comes down to that, it'll be just as I said at the start. If that foolish girl who's making the choice to save her sister instead of herself shows up here, I could kill her. But you're long past that point, so there's no point in hurting you.

[angramaintsu]

You could hurt me to put me out of my misery. [ Rin reminds him of that. ]

Hm, although you would have to hurt the tower administrators to ensure I didn't return from the dead. Sounds like too much trouble for either of us.

[ She's still not offering to return his cloth. It's too nice to hold and she's a bit selfish in her embarrassed state. ]

[swordedpast]

...I can't hurt you.

[ He says it simply, but after a moment, he realizes his mistake and hurries to add, with an awkward glance at her: ]

I am your Servant, after all. I'd be doing a bad job of the role if I hurt you.

[angramaintsu]

Sometimes a Servant has to hurt their Master in order to protect them from an even greater threat.

[ Adding on playfully: ] Maybe I really like it when my Servant is a bit forceful ufufu.

[swordedpast]

Is that so?

[ Inwardly, he congratulates himself on not stammering. He had to catch his breath for a moment there to avoid it. ]

Then you won't mind if I take that.

[ And he reaches out to try to take his capelet back. Except he's still not quite looking at her, so he winds up awkwardly grabbing at her shoulder instead. Oops. ]

--I meant my coat.

[angramaintsu]

[ ?1 ] Wha-?

Your coat... [ Even if he's holding onto her shoulder, she does find the courage to look up towards him. ] It's pretty chilly, so why don't I wear it until we make it out of this floor?

[swordedpast]

[ Where she finds courage, he loses it. In an instant, he lets go of her shoulder, as if its head was suddenly scalding him. ]

That's only natural. In that case, why don't we leave?

[ He's suddenly all too eager to be free of the heavy weight of his ordinary humanity, here in this forest without powers. ]

[angramaintsu]

[ Rising to her feet, she nods in agreement as her hands move to hold the fabric back up over her shoulders. ]

Let's leave together, Archer. [ Expecting him to fall into place at her side, she'll begin walking off without waiting. ]

[swordedpast]

[ And without another word, he falls into place behind her and at her side, like a shadow trailing after her. It feels right. It feels right despite what he's learned here, and even though she's not his Rin.

She's still the only thing he has to follow in this place, so he follows her. ]