all this work gone to waste

[lipochrome]

Who: gideon nav and cr
What: a july catch-all
When: mid-late july
Where: the beach, cobra kai, gaze

Content Warnings: marked in comment headers, but expect death, grief, corruption, religious and family trauma

Comments

[dohaeris]

[ sansa raises her eyebrows and sets the clothes down at gideon's side.]

Not my blood hound, I hope.

[she straightens. she really doesn't want to sit in the sand.]

You sound very certain that the emperor is coming back.

[that's interesting, given some of the things she's learned about liches.]

I don't know that you'll be able to kill him like this. It seems much more likely that he would kill you. I didn't even see it, when they killed my gull.

[she still hasn't, despite all the birds she's been in and their various memories of the event. there was no spell, no gesture––the gull simply fell out of the sky.]

[lipochrome]

[ Oh, a joke. Gideon laughs, the sound coming out twisted and wrong. Still, it's a laugh, which is probably better than a sulk. ]

He's immortal. And he also runs on, like, so much spite. [ Just like Gideon. ] If there's one thing I know about him, it's that he won't stay down.

He can't kill me. I'm made to kill him.

[ A simple equation. A brutal calculus. Gideon is a bomb, and here is where she'll detonate. ]

[dohaeris]

[the laugh is concerning, but it's also a symptom. treatable. the spite sounds familiar. sansa can't help her mouth tugging to one side.

if he can't kill gideon, if gideon can kill him, that's very useful. but corruption is very good at telling people the lies they want to believe. just like sansa. she recognizes its intrusion and frowns.]

You don't have your sword.

[gideon is a swordswoman, sansa knows that. perhaps she could appeal to gideon's pride; it would probably work on her brothers. but perhaps not.]

How do you mean to put him down, then, if Mariana couldn't? It would be very unfair if The Reckoning were to kill you for killing him, and then he came back and you didn't.

[sansa's not sure the reckoning understands things like 'justifiable homicide.']