Morgana, he thinks and does not say, because he will not be weak - but it helps. Somehow, the words help, sink in, get his brain to chug along and attempt to work.
Now more than ever, it's critical that he focuses. He must be Joker.]
That sounds like him.
[It flays him apart to even say it.]
Sorry. I didn't mean to... [He's calmer again, getting there, not quite Leader of the Phantom Thieves-calm, but approaching it at a sedate pace. He should never act like that, for any reason, but it seems he's full of slipups today.] If he's there, then I still want to go. I need to see him.
[Needs to see him alive, moving, in front of him.
Needs to search his body for a bullet wound, so maybe he won't have to breathe around the empty space inside himself.]
Will you still take me there?
[The question feels small, fragile and slipping into too-formal. But it doesn't help any of them to turn away from this. Not Akira, not Maruki.
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It's alright.
Morgana, he thinks and does not say, because he will not be weak - but it helps. Somehow, the words help, sink in, get his brain to chug along and attempt to work.
Now more than ever, it's critical that he focuses. He must be Joker.]
That sounds like him.
[It flays him apart to even say it.]
Sorry. I didn't mean to... [He's calmer again, getting there, not quite Leader of the Phantom Thieves-calm, but approaching it at a sedate pace. He should never act like that, for any reason, but it seems he's full of slipups today.] If he's there, then I still want to go. I need to see him.
[Needs to see him alive, moving, in front of him.
Needs to search his body for a bullet wound, so maybe he won't have to breathe around the empty space inside himself.]
Will you still take me there?
[The question feels small, fragile and slipping into too-formal. But it doesn't help any of them to turn away from this. Not Akira, not Maruki.
And not Akechi, either.]