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[ well he was coming here to brood because this is the only outside we've got once more but. pausing and staring for a second before approaching ]

She didn't deserve that.

[ he can guess it's more about vi based on the little interaction he saw ]

[ he stiffens when someone else shows up to his weird little activity, but forces himself to relax after a moment. ]

'Deserving' has never meant anything.

No, it hasn't. But the world being unfair doesn't mean you can't acknowledge when it is.

She was hurt.

And he was still down an arm.

Pretty pragmatic choices, if you ask me.

Yeah.

Hard to tell if it really was on purpose, though. I don't know how much Boothill chose his target.

[ is it possession is it people going for the prizes who can SAY ]

Maybe these killers did. They certainly have incentive.

Yeah. A whole pile of it. [ it was. so many incentives. ] Can't exactly narrow it down to who's most likely to go for it when there's so many.

I'd say narrow it down by whoever is small and weak enough to have to resort to killing the injured, but. That would just implicate me.

...I wasn't involved, for the record. With either of the murders.

[ there's a pause because he is not exactly the kind to just take dante at his word but he'll at least give him this; ]

I don't think they'd who you'd have picked if you were in your right mind.

...th...anks? I think?

I'm not going to pretend I think you're above lying to my face. [ but he sort of believes him in this case. unless he is possessed but like that's exhausting whatever. ] But I wasn't worried it was you this time.