onefellswoop: it won't be long (watching your every move)
darius scarlett ([personal profile] onefellswoop) wrote in [community profile] kingdomsofrain2024-01-24 08:25 pm

texts texts texts

this one is for texts!
honeystuff: i'm just a man (i'm only flesh and bone)

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[personal profile] honeystuff 2025-03-25 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

That's a good reason to hide it somewhere no one can get to it. Good reason to hide it with someone you trust.

For the record, I didn't know. I didn't have any idea it would compel you to [...] obey, I guess. You probably figured that already, but it needed saying.

I've never liked giving you orders, even when we were playing around with that contract. I preferred giving you the choice. (Well - I prefer obeying you. Much more fun.)

I wonder [...] how much of that reluctance to command is a holdover from before.

Maybe I knew without knowing that you wouldn't have a choice.

Wouldn't have been right.

Forcing someone to obey isn't right.

I don't know how I feel about what I did. I suppose if you're okay with it, and you know it wasn't intentional...that's all right. And it was because I was afraid for your immediate safety. An exceptional, dire circumstance.

[...]

I don't like the idea of someone else potentially getting their hands on the artifact in question and using it to force you to act any way you wouldn't otherwise. It reeks of enslavement.

Seems like something Lacey would try to do.

Anyhow. At least I didn't hurt you. At least you came back to me.

[...]

Desmond, I'll always protect you. Even if you weren't mine, I'd protect you.