#but a short rest with the whole party spread out in these different tableaus can ALSO be so personal

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feeling really headinhands about. kobus on the rooftop with mina, auberon as a weasel curled up on montery’s back and then in the forest with sabin, fásach walking among and commending the soldiers, cerise holding calista and making plans with elliot and just quietly sitting with the other sorcerers, cami celebrating in the streets with all the people of the city....man....

#it's like that one bron post from ages ago #about how everyone in this party has their Other Loyalties #we have some crossover! and some aligned goals! but at the end of the day we each have our Priorities #we each have our people! #it's like.a short rest with the whole party sitting together and passing around a flask and bandaging each others' wounds can be so personal #but a short rest with the whole party spread out in these different tableaus can ALSO be so personal #y'know? #c:crop #cha:cerise #also. for cerise's part #my first instinct had been 'ah she's gonna do the same thing she did after rhest where she's devoted to these people and protecting them #but also isolating herself from them with her own guilt and her assumption that they all blame her as much as she blames herself' #but she's not doing that pleading emoji #i think bc of a combination of 'dragon's dead and won't hurt them again and also didn't get away unscathed' #along with calista and maurice both approaching *her* #and even elliot not showing a flicker of anger toward cerise #and then the fact that. she doesn't have Time to isolate herself #she had two weeks on the road after rhest! here she has to be functional within like #two hours! #so the guilt and the 'they should blame me' gets shoved in the same box as all the trauma and just sits there Fueling Everything #and then she goes and hugs her people #<3