tinstar: (Shadowed downcast)
Deputy US Marshal Givens ([personal profile] tinstar) wrote in [community profile] villagelogs 2021-09-10 12:10 am (UTC)

"If I ask Ellie for the knife, she'll want to join us. I ain't willin' to ask that of her," he explained in kind, gentle and patient tone with a faint shake of his head. "I understand what you're tellin' me and if it was anyone else... I would be knockin' on their door. But I've already watched too many young people get messed up by Mathis's bullshit."

Claire, Athena, Quentin, Will even - though Will wasn't exactly the same kind of Young and was pretty damned broken when he came in to begin with. But he had been an example in deteriorate. He couldn't do it again. Wouldn't do it again and bloodletting wasn't breaking into the Lodge. He wasn't going to exclude Ellie from everything for her age but this. This was different.

"Doc's sharpened butter knife. Was what I was plannin'. I can lift it from him early if you need time with it but.. Dorian, you oughta know what happened the last time a Warlock, a Magician, a Mage, whatever you wanna call it, he ended up coughin' up a chunk of his lung. I've already died by this place twice. Malcolm's already in the ground once, though he-" Raylan breathed in sharply, reaching up to pinch at the bridge of his nose as he pushed everything back into it's place. "He swears he didn't die, he didn't experience it."

Thank god for small favors.

"I appreciate you doin' this. Stickin' your neck out, helpin' me. But I'll be honest with you from the jump. This is Mathis. We might die doin' it regardless. I'm fully aware. It's somethin' that I've considered. And at this point it's an acceptable risk. Because you're right.. There are worse things than Death."

He didn't have to know Magic to know that.

"If you wanna pull out of it at any point, I won't blame ya for it. You barely know us."

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