Time to catch up | Conquest dorms

[veepofchess]

Following the fight with that... troll, the last thing Lelouch wanted to do was sleep in that room. So he stayed in his own dorm lobby until very late, and made his way to Suzaku's sometime in the wee hours of the morning. He made himself comfortable on a couch, using a blanket he'd brought with him. He knew Suzaku was an early riser, so he didn't anticipate any trouble for his moving from one dorm to another. All he needed to do to was move the blanket and the remnants of his uniform would tell the story.

Why he was back, he didn't know. But he wasn't going back there anytime soon. He would at least have to speak with Dolorosa.

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[swordofzero]

Suzaku followed her silently and scowled at her words. "He was... is..." This death not being permanent thing was confusing, "Is not just my friend, I am his knight. It is my duty to protect him."

She seemed to have no feelings whatsoever but she might have a sense of duty. Somehow Suzaku doubted it.

[effortless]

"My brother was a little like you," she mused, "Just a little, mind you. When his owner had blunted him - ah, a sword can only obey his wielder, of course, but the way she used him... I had to threaten her before he would even take the fight seriously. She was cunning, full of tricks and plans, but she was so weak... Has Lelouch dulled your blade like she dulled my brother's, Suzaku? Or, more importantly, now I have threatened him, do you feel yourself growing sharper again?"

[swordofzero]

She was creepy, and the way she talked was strange and she had just killed Lelouch but Suzaku thought that she understood what she was saying. Sort of. Enough to answer.

"I suppose it is true that I had not appreciated how dangerous this place was... and thought he would be able to handle himself... I know now."

[effortless]

"Unable to handle himself? Perhaps... I suppose he was just unlucky, to have encountered an opponent stronger than him so unexpectedly. I am sure he would have survived, given time to scheme. That is the kind of person your owner appears to be." She hummed to herself. "Ah, rather than 'owner', maybe he is your 'princess', like the legend? Since you are a 'knight'."

It seemed unnecessarily amusing, suddenly, to have this absurd story in her head. "A Knight and the Princess he wished to save. Would that make me the demon lord?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked but nodded, she was right given time to scheme Lelouch would have been able to avoid a direct fight with Gamzee and solved the issue in another way.

He blinked at her again... "Well he's a prince not a princess," he shrugged, "I guess," that was a disturbing thought, that she was the demon Lord, especially since she had powers to bring people pain, and was impossible to fight against, "Are you?"

[effortless]

"I could take that role if it was needed, I suppose... It would be rather bothersome, to do evil until I was killed. Or do good... It depends. I would much rather just disappear immediately, but there is no role for that, is there? It's a huge pity."

She was interrupted by their arrival at the Pale building, and she paused to wait for him to open the door. "He really is a prince? My..."

[swordofzero]

"No there is not..." Suzaku felt a twinge of sympathy for her, but he ignored it, she had proved herself to be uncaring already. "Duty often requires us to live..." A familiar pain started in his head and he frowned, steering his thoughts away, trying not to wonder what he could have possibly forgotten.

"Yes he is, an Emperor actually though I believe he has forgotten that."

[effortless]

"Duty? Well, that is one reason." She was, in fact, betting everything on the end of this new session causing her permanent death. She'd done enough for it, after all. Or. Had she? There must be more she could do. She spared him a considering glance as he flinched away from some lost memory or another. "In any case, a sword cannot be a demon lord, so it is pointless to consider it."

An emperor? Not according to the registers, but. Well. She didn't really care.

"My old home..." She murmured, as they entered the building. "1-B, if I recall. Shall we take the stairs?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, wondering at her consideration that she was a sword, if that is what she meant. He thought it was.

"How long were you here before you became a prefect?" Suzaku asked as they went up the stairs. Since she was here, he might as well see what he could learn.

[effortless]

"Let's see... I became a prefect about four months ago," she thought back, without any real concern. "That would be half a year after I died... The Dolorosa gave me a Link, you see, and that has a tendency of activating-- ah, never mind." She smiled blandly. "It certainly took some time, in any case."

[swordofzero]

"You died?" He raised his eyebrow, "You mean before you came here?" He listened to the information, a link charm? A link charm that activated something? He filed away the information, perhaps Lelouch knew something about it.

[effortless]

"It wasn't particularly pleasant to wake up again," she agreed. "Having finally achieved a normal death, only to wake in a world where death was nothing..."

Without much thought, she unbuttoned one of her shirt buttons and tugged it open to expose the centre of her chest. Or rather, what had probably once been a chest, but was now a blackened pit of burnt tissue. The mortal injury itself had vanished when she had woken up, but the initial wound left by the Akutou Bita remained. She smiled again, dissonant serenity. "As you can see, I am slightly difficult to kill..."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku blinked, staring for a moment at the whole in her chest. He didn't say anything, not quite believing that she was stood there with such an injury, and still alive.