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[It's as their leaving the execution sight that Jae-ha manages to see Sandalphon and he offers a smile:]
It seems that the Green Dragon does indeed get to survive another day.
Good news, isn't it?
It seems that the Green Dragon does indeed get to survive another day.
Good news, isn't it?
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You seemed so ready to face your death yesterday.
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[Waves a hand...]
But I'm more familiar with expiration dates than most here, I suppose. So if it was going to be anyone, it was fine if it was me.
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And Jae-ha pauses then, stops what he's doing to give Sandalphon the entirety of his attention:]
Why?
Why have you given up?
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What use does a sacrificial pawn possess, once discarded? I was to face judgment for my crimes. If not there, then why not here?
[Although . . . the inclusion of partners has seriously thrown a wrench in his tentative plans.]
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Who told you that you were a pawn?
You were a thief, weren't you? What were your reasons?
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It was a rampage. I had no reason other than that I felt there was no other path. Of course, that path was futile too.
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What did you know before then?
[if he was just... acting out.]
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Darkness. Anger. Hatred. Regret. Pain.]
Why does that matter? At the end of the day, I thrust the sky realm into a state of chaos and endangered the lives of thousands of skydwellers. Here, I'm just a villain who's getting his due.
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[ - at least, from what he can see.]
All you knew was rampage - is that it? So you took it out on other people, and now you want to pay for your crimes, you want to receive your justice and find that's the end of it.
Is it just... that you don't know what to do with living, now that you have the chance?
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What nonsense. I know what I am, and I'm simply abiding by what the higher power has decreed. He deemed my physical manifestation unnecessary to the world and erased me from that plane of existence. Who am I to question or defy his judgment?
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You're you. You have your own thoughts, your own feelings, your own anger. I don't agree with what you did with it but - if someone told you that you were unnecessary... that you could be so easily erased like your life doesn't matter...
[It's something he understands.
Intimately.]
Your higher power was wrong.
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What do you know about him? I'm the one who doubted him in the first place. The fault lies with me. I was wrong!
[And it's hardly the fault of his progenitor that he turned out to be so unremarkable.]
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to feel so fiercely defensive - ]
Did you love him?
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Wha . . . what does that have to do with this?
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It's love.
[His brow furrows.]
.... you don't have to tell me - but you know, it won't help anyone or anything if you can't stand to be a bit more honest with yourself.
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It doesn't matter. I'm useless either way; my feelings are irrelevant.
I LOST THIS I'M SORRY JAE
[His brow furrows.]
You're not useless, and ignoring your feelings isn't productive for you, or anyone around you.
my heart is broken, how could u
[Sandalphon grits his teeth. Productive, he says.]
That's enough. I have nothing more to say.
i love you
I think you have plenty.
You know that it's alright to still be mad, don't you?
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I was angry for two thousand years. It's about time that I let go.
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There's so many emotions available to work through that it's hard to begin naming them all - the grief, the happiness, the joy, the surprise, the sadness, the chance to open your heart and understand that love doesn't have to come with pain....
[ . . . . ]
It's worth a try.
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I am an archangel. Those feelings have no place in my being.
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Does it actually match up with what you feel?
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My purpose may no longer be relevant, but I'm still an archangel.
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As a dragon, I choose my fate with every breath I take.
It sounds like you might want to try the same.
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Fine. I've heard what you had to say. This conversation is over.
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[Jae-ha probably won't let him forget. With that, Sandalphon will take his leave.]