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Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
What:

[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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*hfffff*

Well you can tell your bosses that we're not doing anything, all right? We're just trying to survive out here.

S'that all you wanted?

You really think I'm going to take any of this to the judges? I don't care. I just want to know why you're risking everyone like this.

You're a slave to the Judges. It doesn't matter if you mean to take anything to them or not, if they want information from your head they'll take it.

And I told you, I'm not doing anything right now but trying to stay alive.

You're picking a damn stupid way to go about it!

We're just doing what the Judges make us do to live out here. What goes on with your teammates isn't because of us!

Like hell it isn't. You're just making it worse, Fullmetal.

I think we're done.

*moving to open the door again*

Is it here?

Is what here?

I see you still don't trust me.

You're being vague. Last I checked, I'm not psychic. I can't read your mind and figure out what you're asking for, you have to actually tell me.

[pulling up to full height and looking down at him]

I can protect you or I can mourn your passing. Which will it be, Fullmetal?

*it's a much less impressive full height, but he's straightening himself, not being intimidated*

I'd prefer the first. But that's not possible when you're bound to King. So you can either leave here knowing we're doing nothing and stay allied to him, or you can be your own man.

I thought we had agreed we came here for a reason, Fullmetal. And that both of us needed our wishes to right the world. Are you asking me to walk away from that?

*stepping between you and the door*

And if I said there's another way?

[thinking for a bit]

Talk.

I can't. Not when you're still under King's influence like this. Anything you know, he can know. And the last thing I want to do is put someone important to me at risk for nothing.

Then don't, and I'll be on my way.

I wouldn't even be saying this much if you weren't one of those important people, you goddamn idiot. If you really want to know the other option, then it comes with a price. And that's that, if you decide to not take it, you agree to have it erased from your mind so you can't put anyone else in danger.

Fuck, I'm probably saying too much already.

You know I don't want to put anyone else in danger, I've spent the majority of the day trying to clean up after the danger you already created. But you will have to be a little clearer on what you're offering.

First agree that if you don't take the offer, you'll stay here until it can be erased from your mind. There'll be even more danger involved if any of this gets back to King.

I agree.

Mm.

There's a way your bond to King can be severed, so he can't know what you know and can't control you. You end up as a rogue element, like the ones who ran off, but more able to help us while we try to get everyone free from this place. And I mean everyone.

If King catches the rogue elements they're going to be done. As in done forever.

You think we don't know that? Why do you think no one's talking? I don't even know where those two have gone, or how many others might actually be rogue but not have acted yet.