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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[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.