but the hesitation has him tilting his head slightly. now is about when he thinks something feels a little off - but it's more about the tower again than laurence himself. ]
[ he nods, eyes falling back to the path before them, lingering on the swirling designs. some of them, he can almost see turning red, dripping with fresh blood. ]
Then your friend understands how best to use his power. [ shaking his head. ] And... she is in charge of the Tower. I hope that she's not using this to run things.
[ zhongli's going to show up in seattle and drop a fucking meteor on her. ]
She doesn't use her power... most of the time. That's the only time I've ever seen or heard of her doing it. She said it was to show him what it meant to be a demiflora without any restraint.
[ he folds his arms behind his back, to hide the way his gloved hands curl into tight fists. ]
I hope that you need not return to the Tower, should you decide to leave Heaven at the end of all of this, Laurence. And I hope that Iris is no longer under her... care.
I don't have anywhere else to go. And Iris - it's not any safer for him outside of the Tower. He was kidnapped by a murderer, and with his powers, all kinds of people will try to find him and use him.
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[ tilts his head a bit... ]
Perhaps. Is she not an Iris herself..?
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[ lightly joking. that demeanor fades quickly, though, laurence frowning in thought. hesitating. ]
No, I think she is. But... I've never seen Iris use his power the way she did.
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[ a light joke back. be nicer to her, laurence.
but the hesitation has him tilting his head slightly. now is about when he thinks something feels a little off - but it's more about the tower again than laurence himself. ]
A different scale?
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I didn't know it could be used to hurt someone.
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zhongli reaches out to gently touch his arm, frown severe and unhappy. ]
... I'm sorry that you were made to have that knowledge, that experience, no matter how it came to be, Laurence.
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It's not me who was hurt by it. It was just... jarring, to see it like that. Iris only ever uses it to make things.
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[ zhongli's going to show up in seattle and drop a fucking meteor on her. ]
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She doesn't use her power... most of the time. That's the only time I've ever seen or heard of her doing it. She said it was to show him what it meant to be a demiflora without any restraint.
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[ it makes him feel a sort of way, reminding him a little too much of the cruelest of gods during the archon war.
use this name from now on. ]
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I hope that you need not return to the Tower, should you decide to leave Heaven at the end of all of this, Laurence. And I hope that Iris is no longer under her... care.
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