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KENOS IC CONTACT
© TESSISAMESS
[ Communion with Silco is like being doused in cold, polluted water. It feels like taking a breath is difficult, like there's fingers around your throat, pain all over. The water is too-slick like it's almost more pollutants than water, and the water crashes against you, inescapable, even if you were to somehow find the ability to breathe, there is still no escape from the sickening undertow. Somewhere, perhaps deeper in the water, or something else, is a simmering, vile hatred, resentment, and it feels like it should be hot enough to make the water around you boil, even if it's almost too-placid, and too cold. Like all of this hatred is buried deep. Then again, the fact that it feels so close means it must burn so hot. ]
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she's pulling herself up to her feet, giving her eyes a hasty swipe. this has been a shitty week, but Silco's back and she is going to make sure he never leaves her again, because she sure as hell isn't going to forgive him the next time she has to do this. she hasn't really forgiven him for this time, honestly - but it's raw and the outburst that's been brewing ever since she'd run into Vander might end up blowing down the line. something fun to look forward to! ]
I... I want to go. We're going.
[ she wants off this island, away from the Tree. her and Kaeya have spent long enough in this place - and maybe that's the real reason she relented; he stayed when he didn't have any reason to - and is already turning away to begin to walk in the direction of the Cornerstone.
but she won't stray far, expecting both of them to be right behind her. ]
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We'll be right behind you, Jinx.
[ He doesn't follow her. Not yet.
One glance is sent down Silco's way, followed by a gesture for him to go first. Silco needs to be the one to follow after Jinx first, and then once he can see that the man is able to walk away just fine, he'll trail behind them both.
Just in case the Dryad tries to play a dirty trick when they least expect it. ]
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[ He says it, but Silco struggles to move quickly. He's still unsteady on his feet, given that he's spent so much time breaking through the membrane cocoon, and how much time he's spent regenerating from just his shard. He's lucky, of course, that he came out at all. He knows that. It had been foolish, to not back down, bide his time, and wait to destroy Vander. Not make his presence known at all, but...
Perhaps he couldn't help it. To rub the man's face in the dirt, or to force him to confront the fact that time had moved on. Jinx had obviously gotten his shard, but he wondered if she'd encountered Vander after the fact. She must have, but... He didn't speak of it. No, he needed time to consider what he was going to do, and how this was going to work out.
Plus, he had a deal to make. ]
Let's go. I want to get back to safety sooner rather than later.
[ Silco could feel it, that needling sense at the back of his neck. Irrational, yes, but he couldn't help but watch his back. After all, he could just get killed in the streets now, if he wasn't careful. ]
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inevitably, this whole song and dance results in her slowing her pace, one thought whiplashing and colliding nonsensically into another, and leaving her to reach out and grasp Silco's sleeve at his forearm. it's childish and bitterly vulnerable - but she isn't thinking about that now. he died and he left her and he swore to her he wouldn't.
--Vander is going to suffer for this.
she is so... so angry she feels like she can't take it and will surely explode - and then, it turns into a very familiar and unwelcome feeling, the one that had overtaken her that night in an alleyway what feels like someone else's lifetime ago. after Vander died, after Vi abandoned her, after Mylo and Claggor and--
Jinx sends a look at Kaeya from her periphery as if to make sure he, too, is still coming with them. like it or not, he's solidly become Important; he helped her bring Silco back. he stayed the whole time, made sure she wasn't alone. she even felt it, she thinks... it was real, wasn't it? that feeling of distress that wasn't quite her own? Communion was a confusing and uneasy thing, but she knows it wasn't hers, that sensation she'd felt.
she trusts him. much as she can trust anyone, really, outside of Silco (who, even then, she only can trust so much and--),
...well, let's just say she's feeling a little possessive. ]
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It only lasts for a brief moment, but a flash of Diluc and Master Crepus' bloodied form replaces the empty space. This isn't the same scenario, he knows that, and yet a part of him wonders what would have happened then if he'd stayed with Diluc just like he did with Jinx just now. For five agonizing days, it was just the two of them while they waited for Silco to come back.
... Well, it's not like it'll change anything even if he did have the chance to rewrite the past.
When he looks ahead, he catches Jinx looking back at both him and Silco, as if waiting. He offers her a reassuring smile, a small one, but it's there nonetheless. She should be able to see that he's going the same way they're headed so she doesn't have to worry.
(For the time being, they're the closest thing he has to a family. He'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe.) ]