acquest | (no subject)

Saffron, you in a listening mood?

... if you're arguing in favor of saving your team, you needn't worry. I'm already voting for the team with the fewest number of members here.

Can you go public, ask them to target you? If Celeste does we look like bigger assholes than we already do.

[ he opens his mouth. shuts it again. ]

Five lives bought with one?

Yeah. You don't have to tell me it's a shit proposition, I know that.

Right. Well. I'll try it, then.

[ —a-a little breath of relief ]

You are a fucking life-saver. Literally.

No, I should have done it the first round. The later it gets, the more likely it is that my teammates will arrive.

We'll owe your team after this, if Saffron needs any shit. Just avoid March.

Thank you. I imagine they will need it, afterwards.

[ a pause ]

I didn't catch your name.

Shark. If you want the original, I don't have a clue, but Shark's what I'm using. Yours?

Doctor. Doctor Brazen. Same situation, except someone recalled that I was a doctor.

[ offers his hand ]

[ takes it to shake ]

I'll remember. It'd be an asshole thing to not, after this.

Well. We are all amnesiacs, after all.

Okay, barring mystical evil amnesia brought on by art snobbery, I'm remembering it.

Deal.

[ though this isn't going to work out the way we planned, is it ]

[ nnnnnope

we tried!! ]