AUDIENCE 🚀 BAIKEN

[dropoffs]

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[va11halla]

[ look you need to be careful about this particular route, and thebe has learned how to tiptoe when things seem tenuous. ]

It is. You made that choice. I understand that.

[ watches her. ]

I still want you to live.

[kabari]

[ baiken is not a conversational tactician, and she's never had to be. but this gives her pause. ]

Be nice if life went according to our wishes, wouldn't it?

[va11halla]

Sure would be. Especially when people really go around leaving a mark. Even if there's no intent to.

[kabari]

...What are you going to do when this is all over? It's going to end one way or another.

Whether it's by choice or not.

[va11halla]

Lose my job, probably... that's inevitable. They're closing down the bar where I work...

[ taps glass with her nails a moment then stops. ]

So I don't know.

[kabari]

So you're gonna fight to survive. Find another bar. Do something else. [ she turns a little to better look at her. ]

You don't need to figure it out now. I sure as hell don't have any answers. You've made it this far, so keep going.

[ she is not saying this out of optimism. it's hard when you keep losing. a past lover, the bar - it's all a loss. it's hard. and baiken knows she's being a hypocrite. however, her miserable life isn't one she wants replicated, especially not by someone as bright as jill. ]