001 | Voice

[a_sin_for_him]

[Nothing makes any sense whatsoever. Lust feels like she's in a radio drama only she doesn't have the script and everyone's speaking a different language. She understands, but understanding doesn't help her make sense of it any. How she got here or why. And the spherical blue abomination she's found herself with looks more like something that should be on a little girl's toy chest, not following her. It isn't as though he's difficult to take care of, or even an annoyance, she only questions the judgement of placing any living thing in her care.

She's thankful at least, for the fact that she's finally escaped her master's reach. Strange as this place is, she's no longer a tool for some miserable husk of a woman who should have been long dead. And she's thankful also for the information device, even without much context for the information it holds. And the fact that it can apparently be used as a communication device. Most comfortable with telephones, she initiates the voice function.]

Much as I hate to simply call out to the void, I'm afraid it's likely my most fruitful option.

Do I understand that I'm expected to work?

[She's never held down any sort of job in her life. How did one even get a job?]

Comments

[a_sin_for_him]

Yes. Not very long after you.

And I told you. I'm confused and in no state of mind to try and put it into words.

I'll be alright. Envy's here.

[envy_the_sinners]

[HUFF HE DOESN'T LIKE ENVY

Scar does actually sigh, pausing to consider. Not long after him? Well, at least it hadn't been right after him. He wondered (because he refused to use the term "worry," even in his own mind) if she would be able to get out quickly enough.]

That was what was explained to me. How all of you worked in a group.

[A scant little of it had actually been a surprise, either.]

[a_sin_for_him]

In theory. In practice...

[Lust shrugs, though Scar can't see it.]

Envy has...always looked after me.

[envy_the_sinners]

That was the impression that I got.

[It's easy to piece together how muddled allegiances are, now that he knows as much as he does. Especially now that he's had a month to let everything settle in his mind.

What now, though? Scar pauses awkwardly. And it isn't often that he's actually aware of his own awkwardness.]

It's easier to... understand certain things, now.

[a_sin_for_him]

I had defected when I came to you in Lior anyway.

[Attempted to, at least.]

[envy_the_sinners]

That was foolish.

[And also something Scar has come to consider. He would never have asked Envy or Greed specifically about Lust, but...

The fact that she had followed him, even when she had absolutely no chance to take the Stone for herself, speaks volumes.]

[a_sin_for_him]

I don't care. I was tired of being someone's tool.

[envy_the_sinners]

[Silence, for a moment.]

This 'master' of yours, then. How did she... find you?

[a_sin_for_him]

She watches. Everything. She has eyes everywhere. She's always looking for a new addition to her collection.

[envy_the_sinners]

"She" arranged for my death, then?

[There's that tension, again. That he had been a puppet in his own design all along...]

[a_sin_for_him]

Not exactly. She wanted you dead when I left, it hadn't been part of the plan before. That's all I know.

How much of a hand she had in the actual events that came to pass...

[Lust could only guess, never know for certain.]

[envy_the_sinners]

And you were taken out for running?

[Because from what he's gathered, that's just how they operate.]

[a_sin_for_him]

The second time.

I was taken back and given another chance. I used it to turn traitor, throwing my lot in with the Elrics.

[envy_the_sinners]

I see.

[Yeah, everything pretty much makes sense now. There's still hesitation, when Scar speaks. He's not entirely sure of what to say to any of this. It makes him more angry at this Dante woman than anything else, really.]

That doesn't matter, though, here.

[a_sin_for_him]

No, it doesn't seem to.

[envy_the_sinners]

[It does matter to him, but he isn't going to let that on. At least, right now, none of them has to worry about some psychopathic freak playing puppet master to all of them.]

I... won't be causing you any trouble.

[Which is his way of saying that whatever's happened in the past... Well, it's difficult to judge, after what happened in Lior. He doesn't even know what to think of her, anymore.]

[a_sin_for_him]

The same. You don't need to worry about anything...uncomfortable.

[Envy is coming for her, and she isn't certain she even wants to see Scar, as she is now. Not until she's adjusted to it.]

[envy_the_sinners]

[That's something of a relief. And another thing that still wildly confuses him.]

I'm not angry, either. It's all just... confusing.

[It's so much easier, to talk to only her voice. He knows why, too, guilty and shameful as he feels for it.]

[a_sin_for_him]

It is what it is. We move on.

We have the chance to.

[envy_the_sinners]

...Yeah.

[The feed cuts.]