[Not leaving except for the part where Magnus eventually turns into a godsdamn mannequin and dies apparently. How they're going to "make him better" after that is beyond him, but if it involves Garfield and Fantasy Costco? Taako isn't sure he really wants to know.
Besides, there's something far more important that Magnus has just revealed.
"Lucretia had it."
It's like a knife that's been poised over his gut just slammed itself to the hilt into him.
I won't deny Lucretia basically put us there and what she did was fucking awful-- but she's not the enemy.
The Director. The woman he'd actually, against all his instincts, chosen to trust. To follow. To listen to. To believe in.
He'd suspected for awhile now, but having it confirmed is like having his world shattered around him. Lucretia knew about Lup, knew about Taako, knew about whatever it was that he and Mags and Merle had gone through enough to write it down and feed it to a second Voidfish. She'd know him when he walked up, had pretended to get to know him, had pretended to--
Taako grits his teeth, fingers gripping the edge of the counter. He'd been a fucking idiot to trust her and believe that her mission, her Bureau, was a way for him to atone for all the shit he'd done in Glamour Springs. He was a moron to think that it could call that place home.
She's not the reason the world was ending, Magnus says and Taako narrows his eyes, scoffing.]
Yeah, sure. Not the reason why the whole world is ending; just the reason why apparently mine did.
[She's the reason why he can't remember what Magnus and Kravitz and Lup apparently all know. She's the reason why he thinks he doesn't have a family. She's the reason why he didn't know how Lup was. She's the reason they're having this stupid conversation in the first place. The reason he feels utterly alone when he's got so many people around him who know him on a level that he doesn't know them.]
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Besides, there's something far more important that Magnus has just revealed.
"Lucretia had it."
It's like a knife that's been poised over his gut just slammed itself to the hilt into him.
I won't deny Lucretia basically put us there and what she did was fucking awful-- but she's not the enemy.
The Director. The woman he'd actually, against all his instincts, chosen to trust. To follow. To listen to. To believe in.
He'd suspected for awhile now, but having it confirmed is like having his world shattered around him. Lucretia knew about Lup, knew about Taako, knew about whatever it was that he and Mags and Merle had gone through enough to write it down and feed it to a second Voidfish. She'd know him when he walked up, had pretended to get to know him, had pretended to--
Taako grits his teeth, fingers gripping the edge of the counter. He'd been a fucking idiot to trust her and believe that her mission, her Bureau, was a way for him to atone for all the shit he'd done in Glamour Springs. He was a moron to think that it could call that place home.
She's not the reason the world was ending, Magnus says and Taako narrows his eyes, scoffing.]
Yeah, sure. Not the reason why the whole world is ending; just the reason why apparently mine did.
[She's the reason why he can't remember what Magnus and Kravitz and Lup apparently all know. She's the reason why he thinks he doesn't have a family. She's the reason why he didn't know how Lup was. She's the reason they're having this stupid conversation in the first place. The reason he feels utterly alone when he's got so many people around him who know him on a level that he doesn't know them.]
I don't need to know anything else.