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𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚 ([personal profile] craters) wrote in [personal profile] damnpire 2022-12-07 04:25 am (UTC)

that's the opposite of reassuring

'sweet' he says like her dumb shinobi brain didn't just go into fucking overdrive latching onto that weakness like a baby's palmar grasp reflex. sakura, who makes a habit of winning her fights by pretending weakness or feigning stupidity until the enemy quite neatly does her job for her: all ears.

and she does hate it, a little. the way she immediately recalibrates what she knows of him, shuffling around information, sorting it into neat files. weaknesses, which had before only had humans now has a second entry. not like it matters here, in this land with no sun — but it's knowledge. knowledge, more than anything else, has been the thing to keep her alive.

she wonders if it's the same for augustine.


I see. I suppose it makes sense for the power you've described to have a drawback.

everything has a cost, after all.

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