second hunt ✗ ( text/ voice )

[relatable]

( 55% locked to Dr. Hannibal Lecter )

[She's not even sure if she can handle this right now. The nightmares, Will, everything just compiling on itself, and making her feel like she's drowning, and there's nothing she can do about it.

He's the only one who seems to understand. She's not sure if she'd call it trust, but she wants to. Who else does she have? She doesn't feel like Will is being honest. There's something there, and she knows. She knows, and no one is saying anything about it. And she can't handle not knowing. Not when there's so much that has happened, and any one of her worst fears could have come true.]

I need to talk. Are you busy?

[He'll know. She knows he'll know. With Will appearing several days past and what life on the turtle has been like, it's obvious what this is about.]

( end )

[She can't see anyone, not like this. Not when it feels like her whole world is falling under her, her world shifting every time she tries to take a step.]

Does anyone-- [She doesn't even know how to start this off. 'Has anyone seen their serial killing father who tried to kill them?'. Normal. She just wants to try and seem normal for once, put this behind her.

Abigail takes a slow breath.]

How do you know what you can trust here? [Advice on who to trust would be helpful, too.]

Comments

text // private

[bonvivant]

Not at all. Would you prefer to talk in person?

text // private

[relatable]

Yes. Are you home?

text // private

[bonvivant]

Yes, I'll be here.

voice

[bereavements]

For me, it's until you know who you can't. [ Not, knowing who you can or can't trust. ] If they do something, then there's your answer. [ Hey Abigail. ] I guess I never thought about trust until someone broke it. [ Erica, Boyd. Derek. ]

voice; 40% encrypted

[relatable]

That just means they can still screw you over, and when it's too late, it's too late.

[There are some big things hanging over her head.]

voice; 40% encrypted

[bereavements]

Yeah, it can be. But, I have other people I trust. So, one goes down I have another to fall back on. [ But not everyone has that. ] Do you think someone's going to screw you over, here?

voice

[unetrustworthy]

You don't.

[...oh. Sorry, Abigail. Were you expecting a helpful answer?]

[For what it was worth, though, it was genuinely how she felt. Bad enough to have come here after potentially the worst moment of her life...then the realm of Death had to go and revisit that very moment. Times a thousand. Plus witnesses, who would no doubt remember what they had seen. What she had tried so hard to conceal.]

voice

[relatable]

Is it that simple though? [That lonely.]

voice

[unetrustworthy]

It is for me.

If you don't risk placing your trust in the wrong person, you can't get hurt.

[It's almost worth the loneliness]

text | anon

[silfr]

A question about trust posed to an unseen and thus unfathomable audience.

Are you familiar with the concept of irony?

text

[relatable]

It's a posed question. I didn't say I would take all the answers.

voice; 100% encrypted

[manofiron]

Simple. Don't trust anything.

voice; 100% encrypted

[relatable]

Nothing? At all? [It seems even more lonely than hiding her secrets.]

[manofiron]

Nothing but yourself. Who are you, Abigail? What do <>you believe? What's real for you? That's what you trust. You're the only one who's not going to let you down.

[voice]

[structuraldefect]

Trusting ourselves first seems as good a place to start as any. Any further trust would have to spring out from that first step.

[voice]

[relatable]

And if it has more to do with what others do and say? [Because trusting herself is the last thing she can do right now.]

[structuraldefect]

Others' behavior towards us can't be controlled, but we can always choose how we respond to it. Sometimes that makes us trust those we shouldn't, or not listen to advice from those we should, but in our hearts, we know the answers and simply worm our way out of them.

[He knows how the last one goes. A little too well, really.]

audio; encrypted 60%

[lostundercover]

You have to decide what you believe and then hold onto that, even when you doubt it. It's the only way. The people, the magic. It's all bullshit. You trust yourself.

audio; encrypted 60%

[relatable]

And what if the past comes back to haunt you? [How can you trust yourself then when your own sins are staring you in the face?]

audio; encrypted 60%

[lostundercover]

That depends. If it's entirely in the past, you do your best to move on. It's over and you can't change it. If it's someone or something from the past coming back to haunt you, you take care of it.

text;

[zinthosmantra]

There's many levels of trust. It's different to trust someone to repay you $20 than it is to save your life.

text; encrypted 45%

[relatable]

What if people know things? Things they shouldn't.

Re: text; encrypted 45%

[zinthosmantra]

Then you have to decide whether the risk is worth the benefit, assuming there is any.

voice; encrypted 40%

[oathwalk]

[Richard frowns because, well. Trust. Not something he's been very good at on a historical level.]

When instinct does not provide a clear answer, perhaps the only thing left to do is consider and weigh the evidence. Even then, a circumspect approach may be best, as exhausting as it can be.

[Because being exhausted sucks but being dead sucks more.]

voice; encrypted 40%

[relatable]

[There are things she doesn't want to face though, things outside of her.]

So be rational.