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[papasha]

[He looks only slightly surprised, more curious than anything else.

But he doesn't interrupt the man because he has a strange case of manners.]

So is your plan to go through this watching the rest of us try to morality our way into an ending that hopefully isn't a disaster? Sir.

[arkitect]

[he glances over at that, raising a brow at blanca-- then exhaling an amused-sounding little huff.]

I am assisting, am I not? Farces though they may be, I have not excused myself from participating in these trials just as the rest of you do.

[he's not here to get voted off for being unhelpful and uncooperative, thank you.]

And I have just as much investment in returning to my own world as any other. I will do what is necessary.

[papasha]

[He sort of bows his head from the shoulders up.]

You're right. I apologize. [He sounds--and feels?--earnest.] I was only curious, but I shouldn't have made assumptions.

[arkitect]

You are not entirely wrong. My preferred methods do ever tend to involve observation as a key point.

[a little wave of his hand, there. no need to apologize, though he will accept it anyway and will not say there's no need out loud.]

Nor do I intend to be too personally involved with most of you.

[papasha]

[His brows rise in a slightly amused, curious way.]

You're certain you're going to come out of all of this without having become closer to anyone else? Even with what the Realm is doing?

And knowing what it apparently takes to create and gather nova? You did say you were going to help.

[arkitect]

I have lived quite long enough to know how temporary a mortal life can be. Distance is not a difficult thing to learn.

[and, with a shrug:]

There are still ways, are there not? Things like the tasks we have already been doing, for one-- I am sure you will not be surprised that I am not one to throw myself wholeheartedly into the 'love and friendship' concept.

[he will participate but he will NOT hold hands.]

[papasha]

[Honestly, he doesn't feel like laughing, so when he does, it's quick and wry.]

You might be surprised how much you enjoy it if you tried it. The "love and friendship" concept.

[He's teasing.]

Surely our limited time doesn't make us less worthwhile. Pets don't live very long, but they're important to us, like family. Not that we're animals, though I suppose you could argue a case for that.

[arkitect]

[he still refuses to say too much, but- the careful lid he keeps on his feelings is disrupted a little by that. there's a sense of loss that slips free-- he does know it, but the friends he had, the people and the world that he loved, are no longer here. he has had one lapse in judgment when it comes to attachment to mortals; it is not a mistake emet-selch will repeat.

it doesn't show in his expression, only barely in his tone.]

Well, we will hardly be here for a full lifetime in the first place, one should hope-- but that makes it all the more fleeting an encounter. I am here to do what is necessary and then return, nothing more.

[papasha]

[It's not exactly a whirlwind of emotions, but Blanca is very familiar with keeping a tight cap on things. It's just enough to know there's more.

But he doesn't call it out.]

All right. That's fair.

[He isn't going to tell the other man that's terrible, or wrong.]