[It's a testament to what little has been rebuilt between them that 76 doesn't question it. Instead;] Noted.
[Of course, considering he is using what feels like natural thought as opposed to focusing on the words themselves, it's fairly difficult to hide the sudden surge of alarm that follows- along with the wordless oh hell.
keh
[Of course, considering he is using what feels like natural thought as opposed to focusing on the words themselves, it's fairly difficult to hide the sudden surge of alarm that follows- along with the wordless oh hell.
'Scuze him, gotta escape a crusader.]
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Can't say Reaper didn't try, really wasn't difficult to guess what happened. The old man moved fast still, after all.]
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AN INDETERMINATE TIME LATER
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[There's some rain in a (former) safehouse, though.]
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That bad?
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[It comes up a little more sharply than he may intend. Something akin to a wince chases it, maybe a hint of ruefulness.]
Yeah.
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There are at least two Reaper shaped dents that exist on a back street, one on the ground and the other on a wall.
[Some self deprecating humor there, true as it was. Can only guess what 76's own meeting with the Crusader was like after all.]
I was trying to retreat and didn't attack him, before you ask.
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Old man's even more stubborn than I remember. At this rate, there's gonna be no damn point in wearing a mask.
[Other than the fact he's grown used to it enough that he feels naked with it off.]
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... Same. Guess he figured out who you were, too.
[No matter how much he insisted that Gabriel was dead the old man refused to call him anything else.]
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Probably would have sooner or later.
[Or just resignation.]
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[Resignation was about right.]