@DONQUIXOT3, video

[icanfixer]

[ yes it has been some days. yes this is not the first time she's spoken to the network at large. this time, however, she is showing her face and standing quite proudly this morning in front of a parking lot. cars, empty of gas but otherwise whole, scatter the background. ]

Good morn, dear fellows! I have come to thee today to ask a favor, to grant thee an honor, and help this young knight with a missive most important to all!

[ a beat. she swings into frame an umbrella, popping open the apple printed "lance" with a laugh before closing it as she continues, easy-going like she isn't going to be talking about what she is.

unbeknownst to most, don quixote needs this. ]

Thou may have seen some days ago an anonymous message regarding murder. Well! I am here now, asking thee to assist me with something like it -- nay, the exact same! I would like to see for myself, and as proof of the effects for others, what happens when one dies.

I shall not fight thee, unless thou shall wish for it for I am most happy to oblige, and I shall take only one volunteer. Whomever has the daring, the will, and the capacity to kill, I ask that thee throw thy hand up and seek to claim my life! My dear friends need not apply, for I shall reject thee post-haste!

[ she is NOT letting a fellow sinner do it. not her coworkers. she's been fussed at and she's going to be fussed at again. she might let one of the other city-dwellers do it, given they're both fixers (or formerly) but not her coworkers, war vet be damned.

gregor couldn't do it the other time, after all. ]

However, allow me to lay bare the possibilities of what may happen to thee should thou take it upon thyself to do so.

There is a chance thou may forget that which is most precious to thee, that thou will forget the moment of my death itself, and face... certain difficulties in speaking about it. [ she doesn't know if kromer mentioned that, but it's something regardless. ] I may suffer the same. The goal of this is to learn if it is the victim who forgets, if it is the murderer who doth, or if both have it struck from their mind; the secondary goal, a more personal one, is to learn if both may suffer from the others I have mentioned.

... I understand it is difficult to think of killing another, but I can assure thee, such a thing comes up frequently in my work. We are ever prepared to do so, and to die just as well!

[ helps they don't stay dead but she's not. gonna. say that. it might be odd to wonder what effects who in this case, but. well. a lady keeps her secrets. ]

Any who wish to act as witness may attend as well, for we will have need of thee. I thank thee heartily for thy time and thy consideration on the matter.

[ a small bow, hand to her chest and umbrella tucked behind her, and that's that. ]

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[fossick]

[Ha. She’s actually going through with it. Foolishness — but the nigh admirable sort.]

What bravery on display.

[icanfixer]

[ she'd call him a liar to his face if she wasn't trying to keep being sneaky about definitely not being one of the anonymous posters-- ]

If it is for the good of all, then Don Quixote shall sally forth to it! There is no one more suitable to the task than I, in my humblest of opinions!

[ modest, as ever. do you remember when she was figuratively leashed to her friend, weir? that's what she's missing. ]

[fossick]

[Does it count as lying if you know you could be called out, but also won't be called out because someone is trying to not be revealed as an anonymous poster...]

And modest, too.

[Yes, he does recall that friend.]

Found yourself a volunteer yet?

[icanfixer]

[ she's going to throw hands with him sometime, figuratively speaking. but! ]

I have! In a sea of many who would wish to see me stopped, there has been exactly one who would take it upon himself to cut me down instead! We are to fight to the death, as honorable as can be.

[ ideal really.

there's the slight bit of guilt that eats at her because of her coworkers mostly, but they more than anyone know just how used to death she is. they all are. it's just that they're by far the softest of hearts in comparison to the rest of the sinners on the bus. if she had certain others here they would've done it for her. ]

It shall be most fruitful experiment, methinks.

[fossick]

Yes, I see you've been met with more resistance than cooperation.

[But he was right in the end, wasn't he? She'd find at least one person willing to aid in this experiment.]

You'll tell me of the end result?

What you might remember of it, at any rate.

[icanfixer]

[ she wasn't sure if she couldn't. ask kromer. sinclair is such a charm, a dear boy who thinks he could at least fight her, but there's nothing in her that would allow him to die when she's the one who's had for sure a clean slate in the death department... if the price was something precious, then there's no way she could ever chance him losing a second. ]

Naturally! 'Tis the whole point, is it not? I do not know if I shall make another such spectacle with my discovery, or if I shall allow those whom I tell the particulars of to pass it around themselves -- prudency seems to be upon the minds of others, whilst I have never been discreet myself.

[ obviously. there's no need to be secret about stuff, in her opinion... ]

I do believe that should any such news come to the general as a whole, it will be once mine opponent has felt the sufferings of his own consequences whatever they may be, for a full report of our experiment. But I shall tell thee of mine once I sit upright!

[fossick]

[No, he can assume from what he's already gleaned that discretion is likely not her strong suit; that or she cares not for it at all.]

News will travel. But travel too far by word of mouth, and exaggerations twists up fact with surprising fervency. I should like to hear it from your point of view afore too long.

Though I am curious. Why are you so quick to discard the concerns of those who might talk you out of this? Is it a matter of pride? Confidence?

[icanfixer]

[ then she'll pin it to mind... another for it. ]

I have told others, there is no use in fearing that which is inevitable. I am used to it in my line of work, the expectation as much as the deliverance of it onto my foes, it is only natural to understand that the rush of battle may lead me ere long into the ground as well!

Besides, I am most confidence of my return. I am not one who remains down for long.

[ literally, and figuratively. ]

[fossick]

In other words, you are to go through with it regardless.

[No real reprimand from Weir, at least. Again, better her than him! Even the following is just a passing observation:]

Stubbornness, if not confidence.

Well, I’ll leave you to it, either way.