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[nightsung]

Inclined toward avoiding tight, enclosed spaces for a while, but--otherwise, yes.

What about you? If you have any lingering injuries, I can heal them. [ Unlikely, with their powers returned, but it doesn't hurt to ask. ]

cw kind of body horror??? refs to suffocation ??

[sensive]

same as you
i’m okay
it freaked me out mostly cause i heal really fast so if i get stuck somewhere like that
i guess it’d be pretty bad huh

[ lmao ]

thanks for listening to me in there anyway
i know i’ve basically given you no reason to trust me ever

[nightsung]

I’ve been in more than my fair share of life or death situations with people I don’t particularly like. No offense.

Besides, it would have been a worse night had we spent it in silence. Or fighting. Terrible maneuverability in a little box, and likely worse for you, since you’re so tall.

[sensive]

i’ll let the other people implicated in this one take offence

[ a beat. ]

yeah, it would have
i’m actually more like five ten when i hunch over though for the record

[ which is all the time. know thyself. ]

[nightsung]

Have you considered wearing heels? They’re excellent for posture.

[sensive]

i have super balance powers and i’d definitely still fall over

[nightsung]

Pay close attention to how the girls walk, next time you’re working the Slip. I’m sure you’ll learn a few things.

[sensive]

ha not sure that’s for me
you guys all are very impressive tho

[nightsung]

Well, if you ever want to try on a pair of kitten heels for practice, you know where to find me.

[sensive]

how about i just apologise for fighting with you in front of everyone instead of opting for the torture and humiliation route

[nightsung]

[ oh. ]

That would be all right, I suppose.

Though if I was truly going to torture you, it wouldn’t be with kitten heels.

[sensive]

well i’m sorry
i wasn’t doing it to make you feel shitty
but i made you feel shitty anyway

so uh please don’t torture me with kitten heels or like anything else

[nightsung]

[ give her a moment while she recalibrates around “man offering her an earnest apology.” ]

Thank you. I accept your apology.

I’m sorry I wanted to defeat you in single combat in Stephen’s mirror room.

[sensive]

i don’t even think you have to apologise for that one

[nightsung]

Would you like to fight me in the mirror room, sometime?

[sensive]

[ a longer pause. ]

maybe
i mean, i should
i know that’s the whole point of me

[ sentry as in guardian as in fighter as in protector — ]

i’ve been trying with bucky, but um
i don’t know. i almost hurt him a couple times
and i really wouldn’t want to hurt you

[nightsung]

The whole point of you?

[ serious, where she’d been teasing before. ]

I can take a lot, you know, when our powers aren’t sapped away.

More importantly, I can heal myself in battle. And after, if that’s your concern.

[sensive]

that’s why they experimented on me and all the other guys
so somebody would be able to protect us after
well after the other avengers went away

[ and that’s on america ]

i do not doubt you can
yelena is like a bb gun that shoots missiles

but uh
the stuff i can do
you can’t always come back from it
that’s why yelena said it couldn’t be me in the games
because there just
there wouldn’t be anything left

[nightsung]

You don’t have to be what someone molded you into.

Even if it feels like that’s all you have. You can choose something else.

[sensive]

maybe
just feels like if i can protect people, i should
besides i can’t even imagine what kind of career day they put on around here

you know what you would do, if you weren’t doing uh ye olde fighting and healing?

[nightsung]

Mm. I understand that.

I was molded into a weapon, of sorts. I’d rather use my hands for healing. And protecting, like you.

Not a vocation, exactly, but I’d like to live somewhere peaceful with the people I love. And lots of plants and animals.

[sensive]

that sounds really nice

[ he wonders, briefly, if she would leave the friends (the ones bucky paid the price for) behind, if she could. if she would go with stephen to wherever wizards live stateside.

— without tony.

it’s kinder not to ask. ]

is your healing like
a magic thing?

[nightsung]

[ She thinks of this too often, though she feels helpless to make any true choice, trapped as they are: Gale and Astarion, their other companions, her family at home. Stephen in a world she’s never known. Tony consigned to oblivion, unless—

Shadowheart could ask Selûne for one intervention. She doesn’t know how to fit all the pieces together, still feels shackled by Shar and the cult, still needs to see if her parents are truly alive. ]

It’s magic, yes. God-given.

I served a goddess of darkness and loss most of my life. I’m still marked by her, even here. But I forsook her.

A goddess of the moon grants me my powers, now. I think I was meant to be her child from the start.