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[narcissithstic]

HATRED all will suffer for their crimes.	SERVICE within it, glory beyond measure.
CONTROL chaos brought to heel through pain.	FEAR failure, weakness, mediocrity...

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[narcissithstic]

So that is what I sensed.

[Another broodmate; another connected soul that may yet prove disappointing.

He is conflicted.]

[erbier]

( What troubles you? )

[ She can feel the hesitation, and has an inkling of it, but she won't force him to discuss it with her if he does not wish to. ]

[narcissithstic]

Our brood.

[Is there more that needs saying? Steve Rogers is a hindrance, Anakin refused his very existence - whatever desire he holds to keep close the others that should align with them is tempered by apprehension.]

[erbier]

( They are ours, regardless. We must tend to them despite their faults. )

[ She's talking about them like plants, not like people. ]

[narcissithstic]

I tend to -nothing-.

[His path is violence, destruction mastered only by obedience and a willingness to serve one master. One will alone.

He does not nurture; he cannot grow.]

[erbier]

( My hands. Our garden. Do you mean to undo my work? )

[ A serious question. Would he hurt her that way. ]

[narcissithstic]

No.

[Unless Cathaway were to will it directly, her work is her own - and he holds no urge to interfere.]

Just because it isn't my purpose doesn't mean I harbor any desire to destroy it.

[erbier]

( Well enough. )

[ It satisfies her. Her desire to curate and possess and grow. ]

( Though perhaps you might enjoy it, one day. )

[ What they're both approval starved babies, a compliment wouldn't kill him one day. ]

[narcissithstic]

I doubt it.

[Don't be gross, Ilde, gosh.]

[erbier]

( Doubt me if you like. )

[ Far more friendly than the last time she intoned that. ]

wow hello notif I never got

[narcissithstic]

And again, it is not you I doubt.

[Capable as she is, and with the trait so rare amongst the current hosts, Ren is at least relieved to have her near. Particularly at times like this (when he'd rather not deal with the pack).]

Tend to them as you like. Should trouble find you— either of you— inform me.

[erbier]

[ It pleases her, to provide some relief. Ren is assuredly more sane than her king had been, but no less tormented, it is an easy and familiar place for her to stand. But Kylo Ren is her peer, not her monarch, and that changes everything. All the same, she likes this arrangement. ]

( As you like. )

[ Hm... and a suggestion, not quite a request, ]

( Show patience with the new host, until she has her bearings, for me. )

[narcissithstic]

I make no promises.

[She is favored amongst the hosts; for her sake there is much he would do, however he feels no urge to tell her as much. She is, after all, not Cathaway. Just as he is not her godking.

Still, patience he can attempt.]

[erbier]

( I do not require one. )

[ It would overestimate her certitude direly to say she knows he will humor her, what she knows is that as long as hearing her out does not anger him, then there is no harm in planting a few peaceable ideas here and there. ]