Demeter: I'm sorry, Cardigan, I meant to tell you about it much sooner. The idea was poorly informed, and I had yet to fully decide what I most desired to do, going forward.
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Demeter: I believed that ZRAEL targeted LiliS because of what I believed should be done about Eclipse's murderers. If they wanted me dead for such a thing, and would take such an underhanded route as targeting us using a game, I decided a duel to the death would be sufficient to resolve things. Requiem herself was, I learned only later, in no emotional place to correct me. Fortunately, her ambivalence was all too apparent in her combat, and I got the truth from her before killing her. Demeter: Cobalt and Leviathan both agreed to assist so that the quarrel need never leave the space of our temporary battleground, but who can say whether that, or my choice to end things before either of us was truly hurt, has had any impact on John's opinion—or indeed if he even knows anything beyond my being a "brutal" woman who has behaved in a way he will fit to his worst expectations.
Demeter: And no, Shrike, we have never gotten along, if it were not already obvious from what I have said. But I believed we were friends, despite all of that.
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Demeter: I believed that ZRAEL targeted LiliS because of what I believed should be done about Eclipse's murderers. If they wanted me dead for such a thing, and would take such an underhanded route as targeting us using a game, I decided a duel to the death would be sufficient to resolve things. Requiem herself was, I learned only later, in no emotional place to correct me. Fortunately, her ambivalence was all too apparent in her combat, and I got the truth from her before killing her.
Demeter: Cobalt and Leviathan both agreed to assist so that the quarrel need never leave the space of our temporary battleground, but who can say whether that, or my choice to end things before either of us was truly hurt, has had any impact on John's opinion—or indeed if he even knows anything beyond my being a "brutal" woman who has behaved in a way he will fit to his worst expectations.
Demeter: And no, Shrike, we have never gotten along, if it were not already obvious from what I have said. But I believed we were friends, despite all of that.