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[He'd been keeping out of the way during the recent chaos for the most part, his strong sense of self-preservation leaving him disinclined to take up an active roll - that, and he may still have been sulking just a little over the results of a run-in with a certain detested someone while under the influence of the contaminated water - but that doesn't mean he hasn't been watching. On the contrary, he'd quite enjoyed witnessing the turmoil produced by recent events, and has been keeping a careful eye on the DEMISE network just to make certain he doesn't miss anything that might be useful to him, later.

But now all the chaos has died down and he's feeling a little bored, so he deems it time to re-engage with Death City society]

Ah well, that was certainly a baptism by fire! So much has happened, and all in the last ten days since my arrival. Witches and kidnappings and chaos in the streets, even potential serial killings on top of it all; enough to unnerve or at least unsettle most people, I would have thought. Is this the level of danger we'll be facing on a regular basis, I wonder? I'd been led to believe otherwise.

How many of you did the attacks convince to fight as we've been brought here to do? How many were dissuaded? I myself am still undecided.

The list of deaths and casualties was fairly high, so my condolences to anyone who's experienced a recent loss or disappearance. It's strange and perhaps a little disorientating to find ourselves in a situation like this, and that must be made significantly worse if the people you know - either those you've met since arriving here or those you might have known from home - are lost or threatened. Unless those people were ones you found threatening, I suppose, which is always a possibility.

Which leads me to another question! Have many people here chosen to locate partners amongst those they knew before coming to Death City? Or is it more common to pair off with those you've only just met? I suppose I'm feeling a little curious.

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It's an interesting concept, sure. Though it sounds a little uncomfortable. You're a Weapon yourself, then?

No, no. I'm a Meister.

Ah, the same for me. Though honestly I haven't given it a lot of thought yet.

Really? Why not?

Because I'm not really sure how I feel about the whole thing, being given strange powers and asked to fight a war like this. And then everything became so chaotic here, I didn't have much of a chance to concentrate on it.

[Which isn't true; he's interested in the new skills he's been given, but he'd never act without having all the available information first]

You only fight the war if you want to. But the witches won't care if you do or not, though; you need to learn how to defend yourself, either way, and using the abilities BREW gave you is the best way to do so.

There's that, I suppose. Attempting to defend yourself is better than the alternative. But some people just aren't suited to fighting no matter how hard they try.

You wouldn't be fighting alone. You would have a partner and they'd be there for you.

Yeah, I'm sure that'd make it at least a little easier.

[Though one of his rules is to keep people neither too close nor too distant, and how easy would that be if he took on a partner. ~~Plus, he's not exactly the easiest person to deal with...~~]

It does. I never had a partner before, but I'm glad I do now.

Then it's good you were able to find one.

I hope you will find one as well.

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