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*Corax watches Spirit Contaminator for a minute, his fingers tapping on the arm of his chair as he stares at her. His expression isn't pity, but something closer to disgust.*
Get off the table.
*Corax waits for her to do so*
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You allowed yourself to be captured, because you have failed your team, got certain people who followed you killed, captured, or scattered to the wind. Is that correct?
Look at you. *Corax's tone is close to grief mixed with disgust*
Does that mask you wear obstruct your vision? Because let me tell you what I see, based on everything we know, and what you have told me, and what opportunity you are wasting because you are trying to be a martyr and follow your comrades into the hereafter.
You say you worked for Happy the Tragedy Phantom and he was your leader, and yet he never gave you any orders. You worked mostly independently, pulling in various members to your organization. From what I have read they were mostly beings who had lost their place in the universe and were pariahs, even amongst the people who should have welcomed them. And then you failed them. You faced an encounter you were not fully prepared for and it cost various people their lives. And now, instead of trying to do better or take vengeance, you allowed yourself to be captured, and are fully expectant of punishment for what are your perceived failures.
Allow an outside perspective to tell you what's really happening. Do you know what a soldier is? When you're in a war, the generals on both sides must consider this one question. The answer is "expendable." They must figure out how many of their own men can be subtracted for the equation of battle and still figure out how to win. That is exactly what you are to Happy. You have been subtracted from his equation. He never gave you direct orders, he didn't care what you did, he didn't care if you lived or died. His greatest asset wasn't you, it never would be you. You were a cog in a machine that decided to turn in a different direction, and when the machine doesn't work and gear is out of place, the machine breaks.
Ironically, now that you are here, now you have value. Now you are in the house of his enemy, now you can watch them, figure them out, be his eyes. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he tries to contact you through some archaic means. He may even be watching you right now.
Instead you do this; you grovel atop a perfectly fine table, and beg to be hurt for your perceived failings. The word I have decided on for you is stagnant. You aren't moving in any meaningful direction, you have been abandoned and so you seek to sit there, taking as much pain as you can before you inevitably die from the shock, or blood loss. A meaningless death for a meaningless life.
But, as it stands you have two options if you wish to move forward, you can wait for orders from Happy assuming he hasn't abandoned you and you can prove to him you are loyal to the end. Good job. But, if you still have some small sliver of pride left, some semblance of any dignity, here's what I recommend. Turn traitor to Happy, work with us to bring him down, redeem yourself; or if you prefer avenge yourself. Have the chances you never had, here you could do some good work, show Happy and existence that you aren't expendable, stagnant, that you have worth.
*Gets up from his seat*
Peregrine, let's give her an hour to think it over.
*Corax leaves with "Peregrine" without letting her get another word in.*
And now we wait. Let's see what she does.
Inner thoughts to "peregrine': Ultimately it doesn't matter whether she agrees or not. That's not the goal of this, if she accepts then wonderful. If she doesn't well that's fine, she's useless and she will rot in a cell; I won't waste my time on a dead end. What I am banking on is someone else tries to come for her. If my hypothesis is correct, Happy is listening in using whatever means he has at his disposal, including any double agents he has in this organization. If she is willing to join, she may help us identify them. Even if she doesn't know, Happy's agents will, and that makes her useful as bait.
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