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[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Pathstone unless asked to go somewhere
When: Now-ish?


[The broadcast is very unusual, coming from Cole. He replies, sometimes, but he very rarely initiates communication through the network.

The camera points at the ceiling, catching just the edge of Cole's hat. He has it in his lap but doesn't try to look into it.]

I need someone who is able to kill me if I turn into a demon. Cassandra promised to, but she's gone and Jove and Solas said they would, but with them gone, I need someone to make sure I'm not a danger to people.

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[killedwithlove]

[Cole stays there, nestled like a lover against Coil's back, close and intimate and so incredibly gentle and non-threatening despite the knife in his hand and the intent in his fingers and voice. He will kill. He wants to kill, he wants to stop Coil hurting so badly, because he can't end his own pains, he can only live with them-

Coil's hate hits him like a punch. The hate that he'd even consider it, that he deserves to hurt, and he does deserve to hurt for the lives he took and that sickening resignation-

Tranquil don't say no.

Cole rips away from Coil in a whip of smoke. The knife is gone and he slams against the far wall, trying to pull himself out of Coil's pain.]

I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!

[And then he's gone, in smoke, onto the shuttle and fleeing from the ship.]

[mortalcoil]

[as the spirit tears away, something in Coil crumbles as if it had been propped up by him alone. now he feels the cold. his breath returns in a broken sob, he barely catches himself on legs that want to buckle, and he wishes--for once--that he could speak.

helpless to do anything else, he screams out 'WAIT' in his own head, but the spirit is already gone.

and so, he finds himself very suddenly alone, as if he had imagined the whole thing.]