Sparkles* gazed down at the finger pressed into his sternum. He sighed heavily. “Parvis, did it occur to you that I – and She – were acting out of anger as well? And that maybe I didn’t have complete control at the time? Just like you don’t have control over Her anger that you keep feeling, I couldn’t stop what was happening, either. Why do you think I kept trying to find you and apologize? She was angry at Herself for breaking the door. We just ended up being proxies for Her to lash out at Herself. I’m sure every person, even a god, has a part of them they’d like to get rid of, and She gained the perfect opportunity to do so. You just happened to be the vessel at the time.”
He regarded Parv’s teary face and continued softly, “If you’re still afraid, you’ll have to find strength inside yourself to overcome it. Bashing my head in isn’t going to change things, for either of you in there.”
He backed up a step as Cassandra moved between him and Parv. “I don’t know how long you were out, Cass, time has become… relative for me. As for Her, I think Inertia might have half of Her now. I haven’t been able to find Leo or Kogie anywhere, and even though I didn’t find proof while I was sneaking around in there, the guys might have been reclaimed. Parv obviously still has his fourth of Her and by some miracle they haven’t caught him. So aside from reclaiming their project of you, Cassandra, they might have been trying to see if they could make up for the missing half-” He paused to point to Parvis and then himself. “-by getting info and data out of you.”
Parv didn’t appear entirely placated, but he did back off, turning away in a huff. “‘Later’,” he mimicked Cassandra, then mumbled, “It always has to be later, doesn’t it…” He wandered away, perhaps sulking, grinding the tip of his shoe into some scraggly weeds that had managed to take root in the building’s foundation. He offered no opinion on Sparkles*’s assessment of the Echo situation.
“What more can they get?” Cassy softly questioned, switching her weight to one hip and wrapping her arms around her waist. She glanced over at Parv but still taking to Sparkles*. “They already know everything from previous encounters. There’s nothing new that they should know about... But fuck, if they have half of Her plus my knowledge then they’re planning something big. We all can’t be reclaimed, not even one of us, again.”
Cassandra spoke a little louder to get Parv’s attention. “Parv, do you wanna come back over here? Um, we need to figure out what to do now since we’re basically fugitives.”
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