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[massrez]

☙INBOX text ♔ audio ♙ video ♔ action Kindly leave your missives and they will be responded to with utmost haste. May you walk in the Light.

Done this day by my hand, King Anduin Llane Wrynn

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[massrez]

Which last I checked doesn't nullify the damage from being hit with an axe.

[alwayskayaking]

Well, I wouldn't have hit him with an axe if he would have let you go.

[massrez]

I'm not questioning your reasoning.

[ He knows that's a lost cause. ]

But it doesn't change the fact that he was hurt as a result, and needed help.

[alwayskayaking]

Could have happened after he released you.

[massrez]

Why would I have waited that long?

[alwayskayaking]

To be able to escape!

[massrez]

He was hurt. I wasn't going to just leave him like that.

[alwayskayaking]

He hardly flinched. I doubt he was that hurt.

[massrez]

It can be hard to tell, with dragons.

Concealing weakness is part of survival.

[ Or it seems that way. Wrathion's situation has always been a bit more precarious. ]

[alwayskayaking]

You still could have used it to barter for your release or something.

[massrez]

No, I couldn't have. He was being controlled, remember?

Logic wouldn't have factored into it, even if that was a consideration I might make.

[alwayskayaking]

Then he should have stayed injured until you were safe and he was back in his right state of mind.

[massrez]

[ He looks horrified by the suggestion. ]

Why? As some form of punishment?

[alwayskayaking]

No, so you could get away and if he was in pain for a bit because of his actions? So be it. Wouldn't you want the same if the roles were reversed?

[massrez]

That's...

[ True. ]

That's not the same.

[alwayskayaking]

How is it not the same? [Smells like BS in here.]

[massrez]

[ And for a moment, he doesn't have an answer. Beyond 'because I can take it' or 'it wouldn't matter if I were the one hurt', both of which will be easily countered in any argument.

Instead, he lifts a hand to rub at the bridge of his nose. Time to adjust focus. ]

I'm not going to turn back on anyone who's hurt and needs help.

[alwayskayaking]

He didn't seem like he needed that much help to me.

[massrez]

He tends to hide it. Dragons don't tend to advertise their vulnerabilities.

[alwayskayaking]

Especially when they're threatening to set someone on fire.

[massrez]

That's usually a sign that they're around someone they wouldn't want to advertise a weakness to, yes.

[ A sigh. ]

I know you won't trust him. But trust me. He won't hurt anyone here of his own volition. I can't say beyond that because...well. All of us are at the city's mercy, in that regard.

[alwayskayaking]

I trust you, but I don't think I can trust you in the future when it involves him. [It seemed like a good idea to be honest when it came to this sort of thing.]

[massrez]

Because he's my friend?

[alwayskayaking]

Yes. [Tim relents a little.] Like I don't think I could be trusted to make the hard choices when it comes to my friends.

[massrez]

...I hope it never comes to that.