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[hellescapee]

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[hellescapee]

Hopefully on slightly better terms. [The fact that Cain - Alexei - had suggested this at all was proof of that at least. Edwin didn't doubt that he wouldn't have gotten a second chance otherwise.]

You said that it's not like cases and I have come to realise that I've... [He struggles a little, clearly not entirely used to admitting this much] ...been going about this the wrong way. But I've never been good at people, even before I spent 70 years in Hell. I'm not certain where to start.

[reargunner]

Slightly.

[He makes a small pinching motion with one hand. The tiniest bit. But the fact he's here at all and that he was the one who offered makes it obviously on better terms than before.

Everything he's definitely got questions about - the being dead thing, the Hell thing, the fact he appeared to use a mirror to teleport - are things he keeps to himself for now so he doesn't seem to eager to get familiar.]

Said I don't want a warden and I meant that. Don't think there's a damn thing any of them can do for me and enough have me doubting how they even got the job to make it seem like a joke. [But then he shrugs.] Dealing with you as a person, though? I can do that. And treating other people like they're a mystery you can take apart and solve is gonna be the first way to piss a lot of them right off.

[He pauses to sip his tea.]

And most of 'em won't give a shit if you've been through literal Hell. Especially those of us who ain't here by choice.