Mementos

[deerinheadlights]

 After Crow gave her the warning Sumire thought it best to stop by central street and get medicine and supplies just in case she needed to leave. She still doubted that a Shadow of Goro would be as hostile as Crow told her, if he was anything like her own Goro the hostility would just be a lot of posturing right?

...Right? 

She steps into Mementos donned in her black mask attire, and starts to realize that she has no navigation skills to really find a shadow. She brushes a black glove on her black skirt, listening to high heels click off the track and keeping her sword gripped tightly in her hand. "Here shadow shadow!" She calls. That has to be better than nothing maybe. 

"Actually on second thought that's a little patronizing, isn't it? I wanna talk to you about the other me...if you're even there-" not that she didn't think that he was she just really didn't expect him to appear before her if he was as standoffish as Crow told her he was. 

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[pheasantboy]

"Don't you get it?" Scorn drips from his words, tired though he is. "It was back in our world, if you can call it that, that Maruki controlled us. He... he used me as the conduit."

That moment he'd seen the cables approach, had known their intent, had lashed out with all his power, with all the rage he had left to him, and it had done... nothing.

"But Maruki isn't here, Yoshizawa-san. He doesn't control this place. He doesn't control Sparrow." The laughter threatens to overtake him again.

"No, Sparrow controls himself. Such a well-trained little toy, don't you think? Perhaps it will help you understand, to know I have to stand down here and watch it. Feel it. It's poison."

[deerinheadlights]

"So that's it? There's nothing at all to be done and you just roll over and give up?" The Goro that she knows wouldn't ever do that. "Ask whoever comes along to put you both out of your misery? I can't do that," she may be a killer but she can't have Goro's blood on her hands.

"If there's anything at all that can be done I want to know. I can't watch you and Midnight live like this and do nothing about it." She does feel for him but she can't just watch him pity himself without at least trying to help her fix it. There has to be some way to get him and Sparrow back together and to fix the other her too. She won't accept anything less.

[pheasantboy]

"I'm already dead! What about that is complicated? He dragged me from my grave to act as a bribe! That's where I should be. That's where I belong. It's what I chose, for all the good choosing has ever done me."

The Shadow drops back against the tunnel wall. "So what will you choose, Yoshizawa-san? You have a choice too, you know. You can respect the one I made, the last thing I did as Goro Akechi. Or you can be..."

He breaks off. The sound that comes from him is almost like a sob.

[deerinheadlights]

"I... I can't kill you. Even if I wanted to. Even if it was the right thing to do. If I fix this and you go off and get yourself killed then that's your choice, but I can't have your blood on my hands." She's a coward too for that, she supposes. At least she'd rather him be himself.

"So you can tell me what to do to Sparrow to make you whole or I can leave you here alone," two impossible decisions but she needs to know how to fix this without killing either one of them.

[pheasantboy]

Silence stretches between them, broken only by the thud of his head dropping against the tunnel wall.

"I'll never be that," he says, painfully weary. And then he shimmers, and blurs, vanishing from her sight.

[deerinheadlights]

Well she got somewhere. Not everything she wants to know and he definitely didn't tell her everything that he knows, so she'd probably come back at some point. "I'll leave you be for now then, but I am coming back," she tells him. She can't just leave him here knowing it's one of the few things that Goro Akechi hates more than anything. Being alone.