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[dothelokimotion]

[ he bristles. ]

Shouldn't I be?

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth tries to think about that.]

I imagine it was frustrating.

But it isn't as though it was a magic you were familiar with.

[dothelokimotion]

Yes. I already said it was a failure. I couldn't do anything.

[unkindled_madness]

...you are not a failure because you failed once.

[dothelokimotion]

[ that's the thing though. it wasn't just once. he failed with loki, he failed with clint and he failed with sephiroth. once isn't damning but three times is. ]

Perhaps I'm a failure for thinking I could go beyond my limits.

[unkindled_madness]

Do you believe you know all the limits of your magic?

[dothelokimotion]

It's not about magic, Sephiroth, it's about letting down a friend!

[unkindled_madness]

[He blinks, taken aback.]

But, you didn't.

[dothelokimotion]

Didn't I? You were gone. I had no idea if you could come back. I had no way of finding you and reaching you. I — [ loki swallows tightly. ]

— I was powerless and useless. As always.

[unkindled_madness]

[Oh. Loki thought he was gone, that he might not be able to get him back.]

...I understand the feeling.

But... I am pleased that you wanted me back.

[The trying matters to him.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ he shrugs. ]

For what good it did.

[unkindled_madness]

...it does me good now.

[dothelokimotion]

I doubt that.

[unkindled_madness]

You think I'm lying?

[dothelokimotion]

No, of course not.

[unkindled_madness]

...

Your value to me does not lie in whether you are useful to me. I don't care about that.

[dothelokimotion]

[ sephiroth had said that before but it still stops loki short. ]

I'm aware of that. I just —

[unkindled_madness]

You aren't used to it.

...I should have sought you out sooner. I didn't realize you'd encountered him.

[dothelokimotion]

You had no way of knowing. And I wasn't around much.

[ he pokes his own chest gingerly. ]

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth frowns at that.]

Does it still hurt?

[dothelokimotion]

Not by much. I just heal slowly, that's all.

[unkindled_madness]

Surely there are some here with healing magic.

[dothelokimotion]

I don't need it. I'm fine on my own.

[unkindled_madness]

...truly, or the way I was "fine"?

[dothelokimotion]

Truly.