grigori | allen walker

... then, I won't force it on you. It probably sounds a bit backwards, but I think... if it's important enough that you'd try to erase it once, it's important for remembering how you got to where you are now.

So I'll hold onto it. [and this is a smile that speaks to older times when he's offered and done something similar for others.] Don't worry, I'm actually pretty good at remembering things others don't want to or can't.

'It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.'

[ all said from memory and with some level of practice as they eye the cat toy again. ]

...or something like that, right? [ he'll say with a bit of a smile. ] But yeah; hang onto it for me for a bit longer. I imagine after everything, you'd be the last person who would let themselves lose it.

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Something like that, yeah.

[though, honestly, Allen Walker is kind of garbage at knowing those answers for himself--othewise, Tyki Mikk wouldn't be so damn right about some things. but he's at least decent at remembering for others.]

If something should happen to me, I'll at least make sure it's somewhere safe you can get to.

[ sometimes you just have more than one person living inside of you and you just have to learn how to deal with that(?) but rameel is going to put a hand on allen's head and a little ruffle. ]

I say this as a personal statement and only as a personal statement, but may nothing happen to you that would take you out of the running.

I guess we'll see.

... probably now's a poor time to mention I've completed my task, right?

You're taking care of something that's important to me. Maybe it'll be a good luck charm this time.

No, not at all. So? What did you learn?

Maybe.

And I've learned that other people find me a much harder read than I find them. [ha.] But also that Kaeya learned the art of the sword from Diluc's father. And Miss Monika was starting to learn the piano before she came here.

Oh, Is that right? I suppose you could be a little hard to read for some.

[ cue the inky hand for the exchange. ]

Well, a deal's a deal, but I'm gonna warn you that exchanges are going to be harder in the future. Making certain people angry has its drawbacks.

That's all right. I should be able to handle whatever task is next.

[taking their hand.]

[ and then complete! remind for me to set it up later— ]

Yeah? And what do you think is coming our way?

I haven't a clue, but I'm not a stranger to nonsense or pains.

No? No guesses or questions to bring me about what's going on?

... well, when you say "take you out of the running", what do you mean? And what would take me out of the running?

That one is easy—dying. I wouldn't want you dying on me.

I guess I mean more... what, exactly, am I running toward? If I survive. If I somehow don't kill. Or even if I do and somehow survive.

I really don't understand any of this at all, still. And it's been weeks.

... honestly, I'm surprised I'm even still alive at this point.

Well, I'm glad for whatever reason that there is, but towards the end of this clearly... Obviously the teams don't count anymore. It's all about stopping all of insanity, I'd say.

That's what you're running towards and always have been. You've been given plenty of information at this point. None of it make sense?

[ they're here for clarity...and a surprising lack of censorship. ]

I'm not the best at putting puzzles together.

[but he frowns, thinking.]

Maybe after the next meeting, we'll have more of it put together. For now... you're not wrong that the teams don't matter--they never should have to begin with. That's what I've always thought.

And you'd be correct.

They were just there as an arbitrary means of dividing this group up so that they could have some pawns to play with for their own selfish, petty squabble.

[ look at rameel go. they are a free watcher to say what they like. ]

... how many times a week can we tell people our teams again?

Two.

[ holding two fingers up to emphasis this. ]

[Allen Walker appears to be Thinking and by thinking i mean Plotting.]

... well, it might be a bit late, but hm...

A feather for your thoughts?

... from what I saw in that place... it's not the dead we should be worried for, but the living.

Since we're the ones with daemons still.

Since whatever result is being aimed for is likely a weapon to be used on the other side.

In that case, this late in the game, there's no point in keeping my cards so close to my chest. If something happens because I show my hand, it happens. But if something that can work in our favor happens because I show my hand... then I should be doing that.

Hmm. Now there's something to consider. Some things need to stay secret so that we, the Watchers, don't get hurt anymore than we already have but others things maybe not so much.

[ though— ]

Are you certain that it's the dead that you should be worried about?

It's definitely the living we should be worrying about.

Though I do think the dead might have their own problems.

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