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MENTAL LINK.

KING to sacrifice	DUTY to bear
KINSHIP to cherish	LIGHT to cast

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You can't do this by yourself, and I don't trust any of those other fuckheads to look after you.

[ Equally. Stubborn. ]

But you can look after me better than any of them? Is that what you're saying?

[A perpetual cycle of stubborn, apparently.]

Yes. Because I care about you. Remember those fucks trying to leave us behind on Shril? You think anything different is ever going to happen with these people?

[ She is literally never going to forgive them for that. ]

I...

[That's a good point. Noctis can't really blame them for how quickly they had fled that day, on Shril. Why would they have waited for him, being as new as he was? But where Annie was concerned... he does feel a little indignant when it was her safety in question as well.]

I don't know. Things were a little crazy that day.

I told them they needed to think out that plan and actually get their shit together, but they let a fucking child run ahead and lead it anyway.

[ Maybe hypocritical of her, she had once been a child capable of leading those missions. She doesn't think Pidge has the training for it though, especially not after the actual results. ]

You can forgive them, that's what you do. But I don't trust them to do shit. I trust them to fight with each other and prioritize the people they know from home and their own broods.

[ She jabs a finger into the middle of his chest. ]

You're it. You're priority.

[He frowns at the finger jabbed at his chest, stepping back a little. But there's something about the timbre of her words that reveal he's not going to be able to change her mind about this.]

Not at the expense of your own safety.

[He can still try, middling effort that it is.]