There are many other ways. All of them guarantee I die as well -- stab me, poison me, shoot with one of COST's guns.
[ She says it plainly, with only a fraction of a wince on her face. The way her eyebrows crease, the twitch of her nose. She doesn't like the idea of dying, not even in the slightest, if only because she has far more use alive, and can do so much more if she still breathes. That, and she hopes that it won't come to it. Jedao consciously will not threaten the hexarchate, or COST. But his madness... it is an unknown variable, and she's heard the way he sounds when he acts. ]
The gun I am asking you to shoot me with is the only weapon I know of, in this very moment, that may spare me. It's designed with him in mind.
[ A nod to her shadow, as it rolls up the wall. Eyes and darkness. ]
Neither of us knows what will happen, ultimately. He's been shot with it before, he's informed me -- but he doesn't know the fate of previous anchors. All he hopes for is -- [ She frowns at her shadow, at the general, at whatever he must have just said to her. It takes her a moment to relay it to Percy: ] He hopes that I survive. And he apologies, for the burden this must be on you.
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[ She says it plainly, with only a fraction of a wince on her face. The way her eyebrows crease, the twitch of her nose. She doesn't like the idea of dying, not even in the slightest, if only because she has far more use alive, and can do so much more if she still breathes. That, and she hopes that it won't come to it. Jedao consciously will not threaten the hexarchate, or COST. But his madness... it is an unknown variable, and she's heard the way he sounds when he acts. ]
The gun I am asking you to shoot me with is the only weapon I know of, in this very moment, that may spare me. It's designed with him in mind.
[ A nod to her shadow, as it rolls up the wall. Eyes and darkness. ]
Neither of us knows what will happen, ultimately. He's been shot with it before, he's informed me -- but he doesn't know the fate of previous anchors. All he hopes for is -- [ She frowns at her shadow, at the general, at whatever he must have just said to her. It takes her a moment to relay it to Percy: ] He hopes that I survive. And he apologies, for the burden this must be on you.