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[telepathy]

will you train with me
he can do what you do
change my body and his

[somatosensory]

Oh?
Of course. ( she's going to need a better knife, he thinks, making a note to visit the blacksmith. the tavern, too, because the kind of training she wants is going to be a special kind of draining. )

[telepathy]

tell me how i can help

[somatosensory]

Well, for starters you're going to need to eat more.

[telepathy]

i eat

[somatosensory]

You'll need to eat more. Physical work burns more energy, and healing is very draining.

[telepathy]

the wolves are still out
i will get us one of them

[ that should be plenty of meat to cover them without needing to trade for much. ]

anything else

[somatosensory]

Have you ever seen him fight?

[telepathy]

we had sex

[ to her, it's near enough the same. ]

[somatosensory]

Did you see how fast he recovered from injury?

[telepathy]

[ not then, but ... she thinks of the void. ]

seconds

[somatosensory]

You'll need to incapacitate him first, then. I'll show you how.

[telepathy]

by showing me how to incapacitate you?

[somatosensory]

Yes.
There are places you can hit that will hurt him, no matter how fast he heals.

[telepathy]

even though he has more furor?

[ he is brighter, even than ari had been when he was connected more closely to the hive. aristaeus had that connection to an empire to draw on, and more potently and directly, his team until she had eliminated them.

john glows like he has all the tribes and the colonies and a hundred empires inside of him ready to burst forth. ]

[somatosensory]

He still has a body, and you are nothing if not determined, my love.

[telepathy]

stay with someone else that night
if i dont win
dont be alone

[somatosensory]

I'll stop in at the boarding house.

[telepathy]

to gilia

[somatosensory]

To Gilia, then.

No matter what happens, you know I won't think less of you. I'm proud of you, and of being yours.

[telepathy]

i havent said what the challenge is for

[ would he still feel that way, knowing that she is only defending her pride? that she does not want to admit that john doesn't need her forgiveness, when she has already forgiven him? because she cannot help but forgive him? but she accepted the challenge anyway, claims to defend against needing to forgive, all for the chance at being his family. the chance to earn the love that she didn't feel from him while she was searching for murphy. ]

[somatosensory]

You wouldn't have issued it if it weren't for good reason.

[telepathy]

he issued it

[somatosensory]

Did he?

[telepathy]

to earn my forgiveness