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Sixth Rerun - Sometimes you gotta lose to win

[Suddenly, the page containing this entry appears completely blacked out, as if dipped in a vat of ink!]

[Dash doesn't say anything for a minute, composing himself enough to speak. But at least he doesn't cry, hasn't cried. There's a bonus. Even if he's got Allen clinging to him and a sword through his chest, and now Allen hitting him, he's not crying. That's good, right?]

[He stares at the ceiling.]

Then I think we should try being open. Fuck the cautious bullshit. Maybe blazing myself on the journals was stupid, okay, I can agree there. But we're too careful. Everyone is. It's just not working, Allen. We've gotta start taking more risks.

[He pauses again, raising one hand to awkwardly pat his friend's shoulder, the other to dig the heel of his palm over his eyes.]

Hey. So, my name's Thomas. Tommy.

I was thinking we needed to take risks, just...you'd make a good Exorcist with how well you painted a target on yourself.

[He blinks at the name and calls his blade back into his clawed arm, resting claws on Tommy's shoulder.]

It's fitting, Tommy.

You think? The only person who took the bait was you, maybe Big G. Unless you two are actually evil masterminds behind my back... It didn't work.

[He just watches his friend, not sure how to take being called by his own name for the first time in almost two years. At least, the first time outside his memories. He feels weird about it, almost like Allen's talking to a stranger.]

Was it this weird for you? Getting your name back?

For all we know, there are a lot more watching that said nothing.

[He tilts his head slightly to the side.]

Everyone knew the name before I did. I felt like a stranger that had taken the place of their friend.

[Another pause as he mulled over his thoughts.]

It hurt and sometimes it felt like standing in the shadow of a person I didn't know. ...a person I was expected to be and it made me feel resentful. In the end, I am me and I can except that.

Anyone important enough would have killed me by now if they were going to, you know that.

[Dash nods at the description, he understands a bit, even if he's never been here before he's been on the end of seeing friends reappear.]

Hey. Get up off me. No wonder people think we're gay.

[He shoves a hand lightly at Cross's shoulder, urging him up.]

They could be watching you right now.

[He pauses as his thoughts gather together and he ignores the hand pushing at his shoulder.]

We need to find the back way into the fourth floor, or go past it. After we visit that place.

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