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[fionnuisce]

['I swear this on my honor as a knight. We shall see the end together, whether that end is ours or our enemies'.']

[For just a second, he stared at Takame like he wasn't honestly sure who he was seeing. A right hand marked by peculiar scars raised to his throat, fidgeting restlessly with the silver chain beneath his collar.]

You won't be doing it alone. I doubt either of us will be, but I'm...

['Everything y-you've done for me...I swear I won't waste it.']

[He didn't. He didn't waste the life his first friend had sacrificed himself to preserve. Becoming Lord El-Melloi II was a necessity, power gained to achieve an impossible goal. Armor to safeguard what could not survive in a den of serpents like the Clock Tower, steel that risked becoming an iron maiden to destroy the human who hid within it.]

[He took a slow breath, hand closing around the half-hidden pendant.]