Lavandar: “...you know? Lorelei? It was fun being with Lyra, seeing her n- not so worried about everyone dying side, that side, but... when you get- when I get down to it, it’s such a relief to be back with you. Feels more comfortable here. More... homely. Home-ish.”
Kira: “I dunno, I liked it. It--”
Lavandar: “Shit I’m not saying I didn’t! No, Lyra’s good! She’s good. It’s just... Lorelei’s super good too and she’s the one I’m...”
Kira: “No, I know. I’m just saying I got a lot out of it - ‘specially from that show we watched.”
Lorelei: “W- which one did you watch? Parks and Rec?”
Lorelei: “Was it Parks and Rec, or--”
Eden Lee: “Wait.” *calling to Lyra* “We could’ve watched Parks and Rec all this time?!”
Lyra: *calling back* “You never bothered to ask!”
Kira: “ANYWAY, no, it was that Polish one with the love triangle - which is great, actually, cus it... this is gonna sound pretentious as hell, but it reminded me of something I never wanna forget: my principles.”
Lavandar: “Your principles are not to cheat? Th- that kind of seems silly obvious--”
Kira: “No, hear me out! It’s more like... my principles are to not let anything, my personality disorder or my failures or anything else, get in anyone’s way. Like, you know I’m histrionic, I know I’m histrionic - I know I hate being alone. Hate it. Gotta have someone here, in the room, in my life, in my igloo bed - whatever. And I know I’m like Dina in that regard, and... honestly, that scares me too. Because for her not to be alone, she had to screw things over for her ex-husband, for Mortimer, for her son, for Nina even. And-” *looks Lorelei in the eye* “-I don’t want to be a Dina for you. Whether what I do gets me the win or not, great as that’d be, I don’t want it to hurt you the way you’ve obviously been hurt before. And if it comes down to being alone and my dumb histrionic self ruining lives... I’ll take being alone.”
Lavandar: “...y-yeah. When you say it like that, I - I know what you mean.”
Eden Lee: *nods* “Only caught some of it, but I agree with what I did get. You don’t deserve to be hurt, Lorelei. Period.”
Lorelei: “G- guys...” *sniffs* *looks down at her food, wiping her eyes* “So- sorry, I shouldn’t be tearing up o-over this...”
Lavandar: “Do-” *softly* “It’s not a matter of should. It’s what we’re doing. And we’re making sure you’re n-never let down again. Ever.”
