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Ume: I’m sorry, Altair. I don’t have time for this right now. Someone get her!

Lupin: I’m really sorry about this ma’am, but you have to come with me.

Altair: Like hell, I’m going anywhere with you guys. Get out of my way.

Lupin: I’m afraid I can’t do that. We have to keep you safe.

Altair: Hey! What do you think you’re doing? LET GO OF ME! [starts pounding on Lupin’s back]

Lupin: Ow. Cut it out already, would you?

Altair: PUT ME DOWN!

Altair: What in berries name do you think you’re doing?

Ume: I’m stopping you from making the biggest mistake of your life.

[echoing slap]

Altair: Mistake? Who are you to judge the decisions that I make?

Ume: You just have to trust me on this Altair. He’s not who he says he is.

Altair: Who exactly would that be? 

I wish I could take this whole day back.
Maybe then…you’d still be here
Maybe then… I wouldn’t be stucking missing you…
Maybe then.. I wouldn’t be hating myself for the choice I made.

[doors creaking]

Ume: STOP!

[crowd gasping]

Ume: Altair. I can’t let you go through with this.

Walnutburg Cathedral – 5:23 p.m

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you. You can plan all you want, but in the end… we never really how things are going to turn out.

We’re all just pawns to fate, being moved about the board of life wherever it sees fit. All of your hopes, expectations… plans… they’re nothing more than dust in the wind.

I never expected to end up here.

But life isn’t ever what it seems…

The people around you aren’t always who you expect them to be.

Everyone has secrets… agendas…their own ideas about how things are “supposed to be.”

Is this how things are “supposed” to be? 

Ume: Y-you. Do you really think telling me that will help your case at all? If anything now I have more reason to not cut you a deal.

Valerian: You’ve done the investigation. You should already know, I may be the man behind the curtain, but I’m not the one who pulls the trigger. I assure you, if you want to keep Altair and Provence safe like you claim, you’ll want to know who they are.

Ume: Then tell me, who are they?

Valerian: Does the name Sirius Blossite mean anything to you?

Ume: Sirius… like the Sirius that Altair is supposed to marry tomorrow?

Valerian: You better hurry then.

[door slams]

Valerian: [leans back in chair] That was easier than I thought it would be.

Valerian: You shouldn’t be so hasty to assume you don’t want what I have to offer.

Ume: Please. There’s nothing you can give me that would make worth risking you being out there to hurt Altair and Provence again. 

Valerian: Not even if I could give you the person who murdered your mother? 

Ume: [choked noise] …

Valerian: That got your attention.

Ume: [quiet] My mother was her own murderer. Nice try though.

Valerian: It was just made to look that way.

Ume: Look, even if that’s true. What proof do you have?

Valerian: I paid for it to happen. 

Ume: I’m going to be straight with you now, even though I agreed to this meeting, I have absolutely no intention of accepting any bargain you try to make with me.

Valerian: Why are you here then?

Ume: I’m not going to lie. Hearing you beg for mercy is satisfying after everything you put us all through.