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hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 2m

(So Crow wants to pick up Vantage Masters, huh? I'd probably make as good a teacher as any...)

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 1h

Hey, don't go spacing out now, Rean. There's a big, bad Divine Knight for us to beat, AND we gotta sort out that mess with Osborne. ... In other words, we have our work cut out for us. Let's get started, yeah?

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 2h

If I had to say, I'd describe him as a capricious gambling addict way too prone to ante up for every hand. You can count on him when the chips are down, though.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly. We're gonna make it through this thing.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 4h

We get it; you're a total stud. Now let's get a move on.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 5h

We get it; you're a total stud. Now let's get a move on.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 6h

A showoff to the end... I'm counting on you, partner!

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 7h

Hey! Get a hold of yourself!

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 8h

(... I've been trying to keep my role as the Sacrifice out of my mind, but... Crow was right. I don't want to end this with any regrets.)

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 9h

Well... Guess that's what we're here to find out, huh? Gonna have to call you out for actin' like you already won, though. You gotta kick things off first.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, by the way... you know there was interest on this, right? How much do you suppose you REALLY owe me after half a year?

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hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 11h

Pull yourself together, Crow Armbrust! The world is about to crumble, not just beneath my feet, but yours, as well!

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 12h

Uh, Crow? I think the two of us need to go over the definition of 'plan' sometime...

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 13h

... Fine. But let me make just one thing clear to you. You're not pathetic. You're our friend. A fellow member of Class VII. A rival whose shadow I've long struggled to emerge from.

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hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 14h

I'm so... so sorry... I promised I'd bring him back...

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hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 15h

I'm so... so sorry... I promised I'd bring him back...

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 16h

You took me by surprise, that's for sure. Now that I'm here, though, I'll stick with you to the end.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 17h

I hated being the Ashen Chevalier, forced to follow the government's every demand. I hated that I was abandoned as a child. And that I had these powers I couldn't control or explain. To top it all off, I even lost someone very close to me...

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 18h

Attaboy, Rean! You've got this!

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 19h

Mind if I go with you, Crow? We're gonna be out there fighting together, so I want to make sure you're firing on all cylinders.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 20h

It's his own problem to deal with. The way he is right now, I don't have it in me to bother with him.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 21h

Ouch... Should've seen that coming. You're picking this up so quickly it's insane. ... Too insane. You're not a beginner at all, are you?

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 22h

But wouldn't you rather feel like you earned it? Come on, what do you say?

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 23h

Well, this will probably be the last time we can hang out like this, y'know? Overtime's gotta run out eventually. But hey, short as it was, we really ran with it.

hourly crowrean 💙🤍 @crowreanbot.bsky.social · 1d

All right then! This'll be our last dance, Rean. I saved it just for this moment... Just for you - in the throes of the fading twilight!

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