lavi [pcs]

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[bookpapers]

You don't have to say if it still counts. You're just the first person I know who's found their partner, and I'm pretty curious about the process.

[there are probably others but LAVI doesn't know that,]

[cumulative]

I was against it, at first. I thought that I was still going to die, and that I would only be... taking someone with me.

[he's quiet, for a second.]

Famine... reminded me there were reasons others would be willing to take that risk, and then after I spoke with Iwatooshi and decided to tell him I was his partner, I... ended up being a little relieved that I did it.

[but not only for the wish.]

I didn't mind having someone who I... was tied to, that way, especially him. He-- he was always good to me.

[bookpapers]

He was a good guy.

[no matter if he murdered or was influenced to, no matter if Lavi had looked at his name on the list of suspects and wondered.]

...I'm sorry you lost him, Mathis.

[cumulative]

Thank you.

[he never knew anyone had suspected him. mathis certainly hadn't; he'd seemed the same as ever, still the same strong, kind person.]

I know that it couldn't be helped, the way that things happened, but I still... I wish there was something that we could have done. It must have been hard, continuing to suffer through it.

[bookpapers]

[...]

He might not have wanted to say, even if he could tell you. Especially since we still don't have a solution. [besides death] It would have put you in danger too.

[cumulative]

That's... probably a burden he wouldn't have wanted to put on me, but I still would've...

[he would've done anything he could. he'd do it for any of them.]

[bookpapers]

...How many people know that you and Iwa were partners?

[cumulative]

I think... only one, now.

Maybe two? One knows what I am, but doesn't know I found my match.