Burning Down the House

YAOIBORN: HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA.

YAOIBORN: NICE TRY. BUT YOU FAILED.

ARANEA: Did you know that in some depictions, the human King Arthur's sword, Excali8ur, was designed such that when it was unsheathed, the two golden chimeras sculpted into the golden hilt appeared to 8reathe golden fire?

YAOIBORN: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT. IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY ACTUALLY?

ARANEA: Perhaps more interestingly, certain depictions 8ore the inscriptions "t8ke me up" and "cast me aw8y" on either side of the 8l8de.

ARANEA: This one doesn't, it seems to eschew all of those design elements, 8ut 8y 8earing the same name, it could 8e worth accounting for, as this "t8ke me up" and "cast me aw8y" dichotomy regularly appears in our stories, doesn't it?

YAOIBORN: IT IS NOT RELEVANT, IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL, AND MOST DAMNING OF ALL, IT IS PERHAPS. NOT EVEN TRUE.

ARANEA: Here's a 8ig reason to c8re: it's currently piercing through your thick, maniacally laughing skull.

ARANEA: You've 8een killed 8y it. You just haven't realized yet.

ARANEA: So o8viously, someone took it up, rather than casting it aw8y.

ARANEA: And that's all there is to say on the matter.

ARANEA: So with that in mind, quite literally speaking, what was that a8out f8ilure?

ARANEA: ::::)

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