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[heartofthestar]

[After a moment, Venat taps the light again. The coast is, for the moment, clear, and thus she quickly releases the door to ameliorate its drain on power.]

I say, that is certainly an interesting response to mistreatment. I doubt most people would immediately decided that, upon being ill-treated, the proper course of action would be to break gravestones and store them.

[She gathers up the small, rectangular device that shows the sights seen by the cameras, only to immediately frown.]

The curtain in this camera's view is moving.

[enteloki]

It must be the ghosts.

[He eyes the curtain - it would be so much easier if they could just move through the facility.]

Just kidding, of course. Stay cautious of it - unless you want to go investigate it firsthand. I wouldn't stop you.

[heartofthestar]

Then I shan't. I would hate to have you regret not stopping me, were something to happen.

[She wonders why he pretends so hard, when she has on several occasions basically written a signed and notarized document testifying that she is On To Him. Perhaps he is self-aware enough to understand that she knows perfectly well what he means, and sees no need to make things clearer?]

[The sound of heavy footsteps clunks around for a moment, as if coming down the hall on his side -- then stops.]

[enteloki]

How compassionate of you.

[Footsteps - he presses the light to see-

A creature illuminated right next to the door in flickers and flashes. His hand hovers over the button to shut it and-

Doesn't move. Doesn't press it. He can see its eyes and shadow through the thin window meant to give them vantage.

He could just let it in. Have some fun. See what happens when one of them is caught by the beast, but-

The intrusive thoughts don't win the dice roll. He gives the door a tap just as the shadow moves.]

Oh, that was close.

[heartofthestar]

[Venat doesn't particularly take note of his aggressively-intrusive thoughts, because despite her inability to understand his eternal façade, she does not for a second doubt his commitment to it. Besides, the consequences of giving in to such a thought are far too obvious. What would actually be fun about it?]

[Looking up from the camera view, Venat taps the button for the lights on her side just long enough to verify that nothing is amiss. When she looks back --]

Ah. Something is emerging from the curtains. Yet while I watch, it is unmoving.

[enteloki]

There has to be another way to go about this.

[Patience is a virtue. Waiting isn't. Sitting ducks in a center room, surround by enemies on all sides.

Door opens. Light off. Akechi studies the TV and the flaring curtain on it - the different buttons and phone.]

We could attempt to alter this world in a way it doesn't expect. Cognitions are easy to distort with the right motivation, so to speak. The right keys. Are you amenable to trying?

[Whether she is, or isn't, lmao. lol. He's doing it anyway.]

[heartofthestar]

That presumes these devices or creatures do possess something akin to cognition, rather than a simply reactive intellect -- whether they are what modern Eorzea deems 'mammets' or simply devices. Yet such an attempt would help us answer that question, and so thus I endorse it.

[A simple 'yes' would be too good for him.]