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[unsaid]

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week 6, thursday

[wisterin]

[ it takes a little while, but shinobu regains her composure enough to send everyone a message pre-curfew. ]

Please meet me in Security.

[ how did she get here with a fractured leg? don't worry about it. i'm not thinking about it.

when they all gather, she will play a tape. it's dated for monday. when it's finished playing and she speaks, she sounds fine, albeit a little too serious, grumpy and blunt. ]

Their hurting will be mended, when you return to end it. Your hurting will be mended, when they return to end it.

Those were the two messages that bookended the excursion.

[technocool]

[ she's just gonna sit here with her face in her hands bc lbr, this is a lot for her to take in even on a good day ]

[wisterin]

[ it's fine. take your time, futaba. you are in this hotel, so it's information you should know, too. ]

[technocool]

[ well now that there's a chance team 2 is lost to the void and her panic is more justified, futaba just paps her own cheeks ]

It'll be fine, right? We've all done this before, and we can do it again. It's just super scary and I hate this a lot but we can do it!!

[ probably ]

[wisterin]

[ oh, dear. shinobu will put a hand on futaba's arm, hoping to reassure. ]

We have to look forward. As long as you can do that, it should be fine.

[technocool]

Yeah!! We've got each other's backs- [ except. she sweats just a little nervously when she says this. some people questionably included. ] for the most part! As long as the goal remains in sight, we'll figure it out one way or another.

[wisterin]

We can work together even if we don't care for each other.

[technocool]

Yeah!! Nothing like some good old fashioned 'we might dislike each other for reasons but we hate the bad guy more!' teamup.

[preowned]

[ he fuckin piggybacked her. who knows. ]

... well, at least they don't seem to think it's a lost cause.

[wisterin]

[ he's allowed. carry her everywhere this weekend, tsuru (no). ]

... Dare we hope?

[preowned]

... well, even without this, we were going to keep trying anyway, right?

[wisterin]

... right.

We have to.

[preowned]

We will. We have a lot of friends waiting for us, yeah?

[wisterin]

Yeah. And we're waiting for them, too. We'll meet in the middle.

[skyagain]

[ at least she is not crying anymore... ]

... I don't know about that tape, but that message seems to imply us trying is the right track. But.

[ should they trust

cyoas ]

[wisterin]

... It was a lot about choices that we had to make.

[ ... ]

It fit, in a way, with the story they talk about in the tape. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not.

[skyagain]

... I don't know. A lot of the stuff on these adventures seem to match things here. Maybe it's all coincidences, but we can't assume that.

[wisterin]

It all comes down to how much we want to trust it.

[ ... ]

I want to believe in it, at least a little.

[skyagain]

... Yeah. So do I.

[wisterin]

It's something to work towards to, to look forward to, isn't it?

[skyagain]

... Yeah. And I made a few promises I want to keep.

[unsaid]

[ . . . hm.

mikazuki listens closely and then:]

So that is the tale.

In our excursion, it concluded as in the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Aikawa and I.... We were met with our hostages, and had to proceed onward, trusting that they followed - even when we could no longer hear them.

[wisterin]

Does that mean they're connected?

[ ... ]

That it is something to trust?

[unsaid]

It may be.

[he will just gently pat her head - not really putting much pressure, he's not sure what the extent of her injuries are]

Perhaps so. Even if we do not know whether they truly follow us - we must have faith that we will both reach the end.

To believe in our comrades.

[wisterin]

[ she has no injuries to her head! great. incredible.

she nods. ]

I'll try to. I want to.