yuffie

[undread]

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[undread]

[well. that's fair.]

...It was a crowd around them. I didn't see any reason to stick around.

[mogger]

I mean, you were hanging around until they started talking about someone named Delilah.

[ that and some other pc things she's been hearing has made her a little hmmm ]

[undread]

[she does blanch a little at that.]

Well, I know a Delilah, too. But it surely isn't the same one.

[mogger]

Is she a bitch?

[ just comes out and asks this i'm sorry ]

[undread]

[she seems uncertain how to react to that.]

I... I wouldn't know how to answer that. [...] I suppose, yes. She can be quite nasty.

[mogger]

[ i hope yuffie just called her necromancer mom a bitch ]

Anyway.... uh. Okay, if it can't be the same one, then why'd ya run off?

[undread]

I didn't feel like being there anymore.

[the truth is, she's not lying to yuffie to get her to back off. she's just not very good at ascribing reasons for her feelings.]

[mogger]

Okay, well, why don't you tell me more about your Delilah.

[ and how much of a bitch she is ]

[undread]

[okay.]

I told you about her a little yesterday.

[mogger]

.....


[ yikes ]

Uh.... so more?

[undread]

Hmm.

[okay.]

She was the lady of the city I grew up in. Things went quite badly there, under her rule. And eventually, she died. But she isn't the sort of person it's easy to kill completely.

[mogger]

[ hmmmmmmmmmmm ]

By badly, do you mean....

[ trails off with a throat-slitting motion ]

[undread]

Oh, a great deal of that, yes!

[mogger]

And this woman is your mentor?

[undread]

[gives you lore in two threads at once.

...she frowns for a moment.]

In a manner of speaking, Yuffie. [she likes yuffie, so she will actually drop the bullshit and explain.] She is the necromancer who raised me from the dead, and also the one who killed me. She isn't someone we ought to trust, but she and I have depended on one another for a very long time for our continued survival, so I have adapted to her presence.

[mogger]

[ man the bad vibes ]

[ she doesn't even know how to deal with this kind of magic ]

And you can't just--- separate from her? I know you said she isn't really gone, but.... how much is she really still with you?

[undread]

If I separated from her entirely, I'd stop being alive in any sense. It's her magic that makes my continued existence possible. [so not really.] There may come a time when her influence is enough that that choice is necessary. But for now - she's with me, often.

[mogger]

So what, she just--- kills you and brings you back so you can be her slave? That's so messed up.

[ sorry not sorry delilah if you can hear this from somewhere in laudna's psyche ]

[undread]

Oh! She didn't bring me back on purpose. It was a bit of a mistake on her part.

[and a little less brightly.]

I am not her slave, Yuffie. I am the one in control.

[mogger]

Good! Forget that hag!

[ she's just very defensive of frends, which laudna is ]

So... she can't control you, right? She's just... with you.

[undread]

[yuffie is valid, she just doesn't want to be called that in any capacity.]

She can't. She can't. [saying it like she's reminding herself.] But if she were here, it wouldn't be altogether terrible. She's very clever. She could help us.

[mogger]

She can't! [ yuffie insists, like she would somehow spiritually 1v1 delilah if she was here ]

I don't know. I think relying on her might backfire. Even if helping us would benefit her. [ projecting a bit of shinra on delilah now don't worry about it ]

[undread]

[well. she's not wrong.]

It can hardly be worse than what we're dealing with now.

[mogger]

Saying it like that is just begging for trouble......

But.... we think those four saw her? Or.... [ she doesn't know what happened, honestly ] A test?

[undread]

I'm not sure. She may have been trying to find a way in to this place.