Andia: The Revolution

[Leyyuce]

Spoiler:

"Ashtray mouth". Not asstray mouth.

"I suppose..." Peter resolved. "If I could inch myself close enough, and offer the kiss, she might be properly confused as to lower the weapon... even should her only reason to live be uncovering my 'motives' for doing such a thing."

[King Acunasti]

"Go!" Valentin whispered. "Go on, mate!"

[Eltee]

Spoiler:

Peter is one cold b*stard, eh?

[Leyyuce]

Spoiler:

Your character isn't exactly a fair comparison- sex twice in one night, in addition to a proposal? An ass-tray like Peter certainly appears cold compared to that.

Peter handed his rifle, by its canvas sling, to Valentin, along with his handgun; he wished to appear as non-confrontational as possible.

"I doubt this will work," he muttered lastly. "Let Aarys finish up what's she's getting at, before I give it another go." Val's lover was several feet ahead of the pair, approaching the suicidal girl with her usually gentle demeanor intact. Peter maneuvered an arm's length behind her, prepared to attempt Valentin's plan once Hremai had been sufficiently calmed.

[JVElEven]

"He certainly isn't as slow as he looks like when he's motivated," Hremai said, staring out into nowhere in particular. "That only took four minutes."

[Eltee]

"Hremai... Why?" Aarys asked forlornly. "Remember the girl I sat across from in an APC after we had heed delivered from our doom? Remember how we had talked, joked about stealing an ICA bomber or whatever? I want that Hremai back. I know everyone... Especially Logan, Lyra and Drago, for some reason... Have been giving you a hard time about Ashriel, and I know it's not true... I mean, yech, right? Hremai? Don't give Ashriel the satisfaction, please, just come back to the camp with me and Val and Peter... Please. I just want my friend back. I need you."

[JVElEven]

"Do you even know what pains the most about this?" Hremai mumbled, barely audible, "They're right."

She spun the cylinder of the revolver again.

"I don't even know if this will fire..."

[Eltee]

"Hremai!" Aarys took a few more steps forward, she was just a few feet away now. "Please! Please, don't! None of that matters, none of it! Please, you are a great and worthwhile person, and the world will be a worse place without you, please don't."

[JVElEven]

"Do, or do not... That is difficult to answer on one's own."

Hremai stopped the cylinder. "But there is always the third option: Try!"

She put the gun to her temple, closed her eyes, and pulled the trigger.

[Eltee]

"HREMAI!!!" Aarys yelled.

[JVElEven]

Click.

Hremai looked at the revolver.

"Ah, well. 'Twas worth a shot. Figuratively speaking. Let's up the ante a bit..." She appeared to be mostly speaking to herself.

"50-50, perhaps?" she opened the gunbarrel, and retrieved a bullet from her pocket, squinting at the holes to put in the bullet.

"Lousy depth-perception."

[Eltee]

Aarys jumped towards Hremai, embracing her in a hug. "Please, please, please, don't throw your life away, please..."

[JVElEven]

Hremai dropped the gun as Aarys bumped into her.

"No! Gimme that!" she shouted, reaching for the gun, but unable to bow down due to Aarys' holding her.

[King Acunasti]

Valentin picked up the gun and quickly unloaded the bullets, putting them into his pocket and tossing the weapon into the brush.

[Eltee]

"Please, don't be angry at me." Aarys whispered.

[JVElEven]

"No. Nonononononono! Gimme it!" Hremai screamed, dropping to her knees.

[Eltee]

Aarys went down with her, not releasing her from the embrace. "Please, just calm down... Please... Hremai..."

[JVElEven]

Tears began running down Hremai's cheeks. "No... No..."

[Eltee]

Not quite knowing why, Aarys started crying too. "Oh, my god... I didn't know... I would never think... God, suicide... I am so sorry, I... Someone should have known..."

[JVElEven]

"Why?" Hremai asked, voice barely above a whisper. "Why won't you let me?"

[Eltee]

"Because you're my friend! I care what happens to you!" Aarys sniffled.

[JVElEven]

"N-no..." Hremai dropped down on all fours, burying her hands in the snow. "Cold, cold world..."

[Eltee]

"It's winter now, the ICA is choking the life out of this world! But spring will come, spring will always come! And the ICA will fall. And there will be warmth and freedom and love in the world again! Please, I want you to be there to see it with me."

[King Acunasti]

"Do it!" Valentin whispered to Peter. "The plan! Do it now!"

[Eltee]

Spoiler:

Tact, out the window...