AUDIENCE FOR: Emet-Selch

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[liuli]

Considering you haven't even asked me my name, I'd say yes, I do!

[ktiseos]

Then dispense with this and tell me who you are!

[he is still slightly flustered.]

[liuli]

Ask me nicely.

[ktiseos]

Now you are simply doing this on purpose.

[liuli]

We're practicing your conversational skills.

[ he gestures like go on, ask ]

[ktiseos]

Fine. Who are you?

[liuli]

[ gu yun's immediate gremlin urge is to answer this with his fake identity from yanhui town

but emet used a question mark and also gu yun's boyfriend murdered him so he probably deserves a little grace. there's a twinkle of mischief in his eyes, but. ]

As you go by a title, I'll give you mine; I am the Marquis of Order, the Marshal of the Black Iron Camp, Commander of Great Liang's Armored Regiment and Cavalry, Gu Yun.

[ he puts a hand to his heart and gives a slight incline of his head. ] A pleasure.

[ktiseos]

Mm. An impressive enough position, I shall allow you that much.

[begrudgingly, but still.]

I suppose it is-- a relief to set aside pretense.

[liuli]

[ gazes into the sun internally ]

You have no idea.

[ktiseos]

Oh, don't I.

[listen he's been having to deal with the other side of this]

[liuli]

Oh, yes. Poor you. A whole two weeks of knowing.

[ its been EIGHT WEEKS ]

[ktiseos]

That does not invalidate looking back upon the weeks where I did not! I-

[...nngh. he hates admitting to this so much.]

...you knew you had others here, the entire time. Regardless of the fact that you were unable to tell them so. As it turned out, I only thought that I did.

[liuli]

You shouldn't rely on assumed allies, in any situation. The moment you do, you allow yourself to be stricken by the tail end of the snake as much as the head.

[ unfortunately, gu yun is not the type of person to look to for sympathy in these situations. he's too pragmatic. ] That is to say that complacency begets failure.

[ktiseos]

I would hardly say I was complacent in my efforts. I've made other connections, thank you, and preparations for my survival as well. It simply--

[well. he stops briefly there, because he hates thinking about his death; his brow furrows, arms folding.]

...it was well placed.

[liuli]

It was.

[ gu yun's relaxed expression sharpens with that, in the "you do not want to carry that part of this conversation any further or you will regret it" sort of way.

moving on. ]

At any rate. Your focus should only be forward.

[ktiseos]

[his own expression narrows a bit in turn, evaluating him, but-- emet-selch doesn't know enough about the man to read the reason behind the look. whether it's just that someone he knew was possessed for that murder, or something else.]

I assure you, it is, despite what we have heard.

[liuli]

[ (gu yun voice) insult my clown and i attack

anyway. it relaxes just a smidge with that. all 7r are insane about each other. ]

What have you heard?

[ktiseos]

[gu yun your CLOWN]

That there is nothing to be done for us.

[liuli]

And you won't be accepting that?

[ktiseos]

I will not accept the end until I reach it, unquestionably.

[liuli]

Good answer.

[ktiseos]

What, did you expect the Keeper of the Underworld itself would accept a death such as this? I mean to see my soul returned to the world it belongs to, one way or another.

[liuli]

Honestly, I don't particularly care about souls, or the underworld, or whatever exists in that regard.

[ sometimes


you're extremely anti religion and you've been made to pretend to be religious for eight weeks ]

I've more faith in the abilities of man than anything else, so stick to that and you'll do fine.

[ktiseos]

You do not care about souls or an afterlife, yet you were angry over the cemetery?

[hello? why are mortals the way they are.]

The soul is man, as far as my own knowledge is concerned, so I suppose in the end it is close enough.

[liuli]

Yes, because I was pretending to be your boyfriend.