[He just holds her hand for a moment. And it's like a switch is turned on, and the sorrow and grief he was holding back spill out. He's blinking away tears. Everything that happened. Everything that was done. Everything that could be done.]
[She...probably won't survive this week, will she?]
[He finally shakes his head with some finality, turning his gaze away. Pained. Heartbroken. They were friends, they were and then she...]
[His hand slips out of hers, voice quiet as he speaks - anger rising, but sadness more than anything]
[ People who confess to murder rarely live a whole week, if that. Otome's braced herself for it, for whatever may come, and she's braced herself to be hated, but the grief and the heartbreak and the tears in Mandricardo's eyes are much worse.
They're mirrored, really, though her own tears slip down her face and when he drops his hand back to his side, her heart breaks even further.
But she did this. There will always be consequences and she swallows the lump in her throat, the apologies that will accomplish nothing, the explanations she can't give.
Someone had told her that this might have been the cruelest part, that she had to live in dread when she could have just gone to her death like Catra had. And she thinks they were right.
Otome gazes at her hand, vision blurry with tears, then dips her head. ]
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Resignation and resolve both coalesce into one as she takes one more breath and then reaches out to take his hand. ]
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[She...probably won't survive this week, will she?]
[He finally shakes his head with some finality, turning his gaze away. Pained. Heartbroken. They were friends, they were and then she...]
[His hand slips out of hers, voice quiet as he speaks - anger rising, but sadness more than anything]
...You can go now.
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They're mirrored, really, though her own tears slip down her face and when he drops his hand back to his side, her heart breaks even further.
But she did this. There will always be consequences and she swallows the lump in her throat, the apologies that will accomplish nothing, the explanations she can't give.
Someone had told her that this might have been the cruelest part, that she had to live in dread when she could have just gone to her death like Catra had. And she thinks they were right.
Otome gazes at her hand, vision blurry with tears, then dips her head. ]
Thank you for everything up til now, Mandricardo.
[ And she'll leave. ]