crau2 pcs: bradley

[unbested]

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[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.

[unbested]

Oh... that's. Pretty messed up.

[battling]

[ He gives a slight shrug of his shoulder. ]

Most Northern wizards over 100 don't remember their families that well.

[unbested]

For the same reason? They're just... having a bunch of human kids that are failed attempts or whatever?

[battling]

Probably not. I only have experience with my old man.

Mithra and Owen don't remember anything, but they're both over 1000. The twins only really remember each other.

[unbested]

[ oof. he can't imagine forgetting. ...except he kind of can, because hearing his mother's voice in that fog made him realize he'd already started to forget what she'd actually sounded like. ]

Did you spend much time with him?

[ ...if his father had been from that world, he feels like he might have done things kind of similarly, and he would have been one of the failures. ]