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[featherbeaned]

Who: Idols! Monsters! Monstrous idols ...?
Where: Anywhere, everywhere
When: 298. early morning

[What are you up to?]

Comments

[softlyfalling]

I think something happened while Shadow Weaver was here. I don't know... entirely what. But I'd wager... it relates to that, yes.

[worthathousand]

Who else should we inform? Normally I'd say Cardinal, and immediately, but you're the better judge of whether Kohime would be comfortable with that.

Regardless, I feel I've sat on my hands more than long enough.

[softlyfalling]

They don't get along at all to the point that I think Cardinal wouldn't want to deal with it and I don't think Kohime would be comfortable. Nero would want to help, though, I'm sure.

[worthathousand]

I'm sure he would too, and I trust him.

[ a pause ]

...Cardinal ought to care, though. [ "ought" as in "surely they must" ]
All of avante is under their care, isn't it? Just as it is yours.

[softlyfalling]

...I don't really think they consider that to be the case anymore.

[worthathousand]

Not at all? Avante is their unit—even if it cannot truly be their bash'.

[softlyfalling]

Well, I mean. We're not that, in the way that you are, I suppose. They just live with us.

[worthathousand]

[ frowning now, the certainty bleeding from her voice ]

I thought avante had been considering one another family for some time—since... gods, since before Harpy left, even.

[softlyfalling]

Well—more or less. Varying degrees, maybe, but I don't think... even though some of us would be happy to think of Cardinal that way, I feel like they've made it pretty clear they don't.

So. You know. It doesn't feel great but it is what it is.

[worthathousand]

[ horrified, almost— ]

You said you were worried about them being distant from you, and I know they don't want to be avante's leader any longer, but I had no idea it was that bad.

[ a pause ]

...Perhaps I should have, though. Gods, when I fought with LiliS, they said I shouldn't give up on being understood by them. But even then, they were talking like there was no true place for them on avante.

[softlyfalling]

...I just don't know what to do, Amaranth.