Quoted By:
■-■:
>Answer the Faction Leaders
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">(...I made a deal with the Order, a bit of practical knowledge which I intend to impart with you too in exchange for a ceasefire and further diplomacy. They agreed to meet and talk in person and that is where I am going.)</span>
◄ <span class="mu-s">Salome</span>: <span class="mu-i">(What knowledge?)</span>
Erika just shakes her head.
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">(In time. As for why I am doing all of this... there are big things being set up here and I need to stack the deck as much as I can for all of us.)</span>
As she straight up denies information, Erika tries to take the full weight of Salome’s stare, of someone who may or may not have had to kill someone she didn’t hate with her own two hands- and of the other two Faction Leaders
and fails. She ends up looking at the floor.
◄ <span class="mu-s">Salome</span>: <span class="mu-i">(The MGC-BA is the only reason why our factions still don’t think this is a trap set by the other, that one or the other isn’t taking advantage of the chaos to end our rivalry. We’ve killed each other, Erika. There are grudges. There’s fear. Proving them that there’s a fourth faction with no interest other than preserving the balance is the only plan we have to stop their paranoia. And we could only pull it off because you came out with this on your own, a party nobody knew about, with a clean track record and support. Lily Evan Haze’s plan was to get us all there, but only that. It’s as far as it was going to go.)</span>
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">(We’ve already let them into the Tower. Nobody was betrayed. If Lily claims to be a part of the MGC-BA, then they have no reason not to believe in it.)</span>
◄ <span class="mu-s">Salome</span>: <span class="mu-i">(We are fighting a bigger enemy. They will think we are just using each other until we defeat the Order.)</span>
Erika tries to look up; but /can’t/.
◄ <span class="mu-s">Salome</span>: <span class="mu-i">(They all are Magical Girls with something to protect outside and we told them all to stay inside the Tower, and now the President of the organization who told them to stay is going outside. She won’t be there while they are defenseless, surrounded by enemies that want revenge.)</span>
High-as-fuck-on-blueberry Salome might be the single most straightforward person Erika had ever spoken to… yet Erika herself, known as turbo-fuhrer in school, dreaded for making even teachers cry, can’t be now. She can’t even look at her.
