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I would. Thank you. I will be there in a moment.

( And true to his word, Wrath does appear where Allison is shortly after. For those within their group that have unique magical signatures, it is relatively easy for Wrath to pinpoint where they are. ~~And we'll handwave there's tea and the means to make it - the important part is the conversation, ahem~~ )

[Yes, lots of handwaving and once they're both settled with their drinks, Allison decides to get to the point:]

Five told me about the ritual. He wants me there to make sure he goes through with it.

( Wrath cannot keep the sigh from escaping him following this statement. He appreciates her coming to him with this, but they have been through so much - Five has nearly gotten himself killed multiple times and would have hurt anyone else he had been with in Hell due to the damned curse. And he feels he needs someone there to make certain he goes through with this?

He takes a sip from his cup. )

What does that mean... exactly?

It isn't that he doesn't trust you. It's that he doesn't trust himself not to blip out when things get hard. So he wants me to make sure that he doesn't.

[Which she knows dances the line of the free will of it all.]

I wouldn't do it if he hadn't asked, but I agree with him that this thing needs to go, so ... I wanted to know more about the ritual. If there's a way around taking the brute force approach, or ... how you would like to go about this?

( The ritual is necessary - Hell alone had proven that, but there were so many examples before Hell, before Five nearly got himself trapped in Hell for eternity and before he could try to hurt Emilia. Whether Five has chosen to be compelled or not, Wrath will do the ritual, because it is necessary, because Five is a liability to himself and to the entire group so long as that shard remains inside of him.

But Five should have known better. This would have come better from him. This would have meant something else coming from him. Five is one of the few that is privy to any additional information about Wrath, one of the few that Wrath has opened up to. He is angry. Did any of these questions about the ritual come up from Five before he went to ask? It will be an uncomfortable process, but he does not imagine it to be something to run from - certainly not after having the visual of his brother chained, killed, and turned into a demon, not after mistaking a tentacled beast on a roof for that very same brother.

This is a betrayal, a deep one.

He rests his hand against the cup - does not let his anger show though he does take a long sip from the tea. )

What makes you believe brute force is involved?

[She pauses, before resting her hand on her chest:]

My brute force.

[She feels the need to clarify, because she wasn't very specific. She doesn't want to feel like he's forcing him into something where he may suffer. And she doesn't catch the betrayal that Wrath feels this is, because as far as she's concerned, Five is covering his bases.

But no, these questions come from Allison. She knows that if she doesn't place her rumors carefully, there's a chance she could make things worse and she doesn't want to do that.]

Five is only asking me so that he knows that there's someone to catch him if he tries to run. Because sometimes it's easier to trust yourself if you're actually trusting someone else, and Five ... well, he's Five. He always makes things far more complicated than they need to be.

But if it comes to a point that I need to, I don't want to fuck up what you're going to be doing. Which is why I'm asking in advance.

I do not believe any brute force should be necessary regardless of whose it is. It will not be a pleasant ritual, but it should not be terrible either.

( Wrath takes another sip from the tea in front of him, allowing the heat to linger on his tongue. This is an offer he made back in Taravast so it has been over a year while watching all of these incidents stack up one by one, and he would prefer to simply be done with it as soon as possible before anything else were to happen. Inevitably, it will. )

However, if it does end up being necessary, and I will ask you to make that call, it should not affect the ritual. Our powers work differently, and mine will be targeted on the mirror.

Okay. Good.

[She pauses as she takes a sip of her tea, weighing their options. In her opinion, the safest bet would be before anything starts, so that nothing interrupts anything, but part of her knows that it's better to get her brother's opinion on the matter.]

I'll talk to Five and see how he feels about it. We'll come up with a plan.

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