We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

[bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com]

[VOICE POST. Forward-dated to 2:30 as I have to be at work then. I will tag replies until I leave, and resume when I return (as long as it remains ICly feasible for him to have replied).]


[PUBLIC]
Effective at 4PM today, I will be turning myself in for the murder of the being known as Starscream. I... I must place my trust in the system I have worked to rebuild, and allow it to serve its purpose.

[Something faintly distant and detached creeps into his tone.]

...No man can be above the law, however devoted he may otherwise be to the duty of upholding it.




Rua, Ruka--you are to take care of each other until such time as Lupin returns to the home, do you understand? There are leftovers from last night's dinner, and plenty of simple food to be made when that is run out. If you--

[A pause. Keep your composure, Edgeworth. Perfection--even in the face of ruin. You remember the lessons, don't you? Of course you do. It's what you wanted, then. When you believed yourself guilty, as you do now.]

--If you need assistance until then, you are to contact Blue or Truth.

I'm... I am truly sorry.




I have never thanked you appropriately for the freedom you gave me in our world.

I do not deserve forgiveness, but nevertheless, I find myself wanting it.

Please understand.

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[voice]

[bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com]

Then I imagine it is a good thing my actions do not rest on your approval.

[voice]

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that's not how I meant it. Like I said, god only knows Starscream's got that sort of thing coming, and it's always exactly his fault. I'm unsatisfied because there's...no...point to any of this, I suppose.

I mean, he'll come back, you'll be out of jail in a fortnight, and the week after that there will probably be a Kraken rising from the Hudson which we'll all have to fight. There's no justice here. Not for you, not for him, not anybody.

[voice]

[bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com]

I have no intent to take advantage of the flaws in the system. I will attend my trial. It was not my place to attack him. Nor is kidnapping an offense which warrants death.

I am guilty. I must be sentenced.

If there is justice--if I have truly done as much as I have hoped, then I will be.

[Turns his attention to tidying up the remainder of his affairs.]

[voice]

[ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com]

[A little gobsmacked.]

...Good luck with that, then.