crau2 pcs: bradley

[unbested]

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[battling]

[He nods, and then orders a plate of meat buns.]

You okay, kiddo? [Is he talking about the entire weekend or just the town hall? Probably both.]

[unbested]

[ sits down next to him ]

Y-yeah... sorry for kind of making a scene in there... I was gonna drop it after he apologized, though! Why did other people keep butting in??

[battling]

[Hands him a bun.]

People have a lotta feelings about it. Felt like they had to defend ponytail 'cause he was theirs.

It's better to yell make your feelings known. You don't gotta apologize to me.

[unbested]

[ he is not sure that's true, but he appreciates it. ]

Thanks.

[ bites into this delicious meat bun!! ]

[battling]

[Bradley feels it's better to deal with your emotions when you can instead of "concealing don't feeling" and taking the worst possible option at the worst possible moment.

The food is always delicious, at least.]

Gonna have another long week in front of us.

[unbested]

Yeah... how long are we supposed to have left? Is it... two more?

[battling]

Yeah. If it works like the usual eight weeks, this'll be the last week of murder. The week after is facin' whatever brought us here to begin with.

[unbested]

Really? So we just have to try to get through this one, basically?

[battling]

Pretty much.

Ain't a full guarantee, but it seems the most likely.

[unbested]

Oh... that's a relief. I-I mean, I know I shouldn't let my guard down! But...

[battling]

Keep yourself safe.

[unbested]

Y-yeah, I'll try.

Same to you, though! I'm sick of losing people...

[battling]

It's not a great feelin'. The wounds of losin' people heal with time, but these place never give anybody much time for that.

[unbested]

Yeah... they like reminding you of ones you thought you were over, too.

[battling]

You're still real young. Did you see somebody on that trip?

[unbested]

[ nods ]

You did too?

[battling]

Yeah. Dunno if Jason saw something.

There was a part I was in some kinda void.

[unbested]

We were in this weird fog in a cave... Cloud saw someone too. I mean, we both saw both of them, together.

[ frowns... ]

I'm not sure who that guy was.

[battling]

You wanna talk about who ya saw or nah?

[unbested]

[ he debates this for a few seconds, but finally nods. ]

...My mom. She disappeared a few years ago. We never found out what happened.

[ so, finally, here is your context for his reaction to the whole spousal abandonment thing in the first trial. ]

[battling]

[He just listens quietly, eating his bun.]

A couple years, huh?

[Ah, yes. Divorce.]

No clues either?

[unbested]

[ shakes his head ]

My pops used to be the chief prosecutor, so he knows all the important law enforcement people. He said they were all looking into it back when it happened, and he would have been the first to hear if they'd found anything.

[battling]

Sometimes you never learn what happened. I never got to meet my mom.

[unbested]

Really?

[battling]

Yeah. He slept around a lot, tryin' to make another wizard. D'ya remember when I said none of my siblings were alive? It's 'cause they were all human.