Sometimes not having a problem with it is the problem Jester says, thinking of their time with Gallagher. The memory of sitting on a table as the elevator doors opened to reveal Dana Hadley's corpse, and being so pleased she was dead. Gallagher hadn't just made them kill people who hadn't deserved it... he'd made them enjoy doing so. The danger of having an evil Puppet Master when their own minds and moods were affected by his.
"Maybe not," Patrick says, "but people that get tangled up in this mess end up dead a lot more often than not." He's thinking of his sister Caroline, who can go right on believing he's still dead as far as he's concerned. She's safer the further away from them she is.
Rick nods. "We were lucky. We had almost a decade of quiet after mopping up what we thought was the last of Sutekh's cult. When we go back, it's going to start all over again." And he's only three months into what's likely to be at least half a year or more of physical therapy before he'll have any idea if he'll ever be up to fighting Totems again... or even running from them while the Puppets do, for that matter.
Patrick's not surprised Rick said 'when', not 'if'. They had a way out, sort of... never go back. But if any of them were the kind to leave unfinished buisness unfinished they wouldn't be what they were. They'd have stayed dead the first time. But one thing to keep in mind, "Any buisness we have back there will keep, I trust Jes's instincts on that... he was right the last time. It was still the same day when we went back, after being stuck here for... I honestly still don't know how long." Time had blurred for them without a Puppet Master. It could have been a month, or months, or a year, or even years... months feels closest to right, but they'll likely never be sure.
Jester nods. It is all waiting on us, ja. And it will continue to do so
Blade agrees. Which means we should take advantage of this and take as much time as we need to recover and prepare. Advantages like that were rare, and it would be utterly foolish not to exploit it as much as possible.
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"Maybe not," Patrick says, "but people that get tangled up in this mess end up dead a lot more often than not." He's thinking of his sister Caroline, who can go right on believing he's still dead as far as he's concerned. She's safer the further away from them she is.
Rick nods. "We were lucky. We had almost a decade of quiet after mopping up what we thought was the last of Sutekh's cult. When we go back, it's going to start all over again." And he's only three months into what's likely to be at least half a year or more of physical therapy before he'll have any idea if he'll ever be up to fighting Totems again... or even running from them while the Puppets do, for that matter.
Patrick's not surprised Rick said 'when', not 'if'. They had a way out, sort of... never go back. But if any of them were the kind to leave unfinished buisness unfinished they wouldn't be what they were. They'd have stayed dead the first time. But one thing to keep in mind, "Any buisness we have back there will keep, I trust Jes's instincts on that... he was right the last time. It was still the same day when we went back, after being stuck here for... I honestly still don't know how long." Time had blurred for them without a Puppet Master. It could have been a month, or months, or a year, or even years... months feels closest to right, but they'll likely never be sure.
Jester nods. It is all waiting on us, ja. And it will continue to do so
Blade agrees. Which means we should take advantage of this and take as much time as we need to recover and prepare. Advantages like that were rare, and it would be utterly foolish not to exploit it as much as possible.