don't wait for a knight in shinin' armor, your savior's reflected in the mirror

[perpend]

[That sure was a fucking thing. That execution was a fucking thing. Those secrets are a fucking thing.

Cabanela retreats to his room, but not for all that long. Everyone will get a note eventually, written in very neat handwriting

I do not plan on bowing down to threats and intimidation. If you did not act, it means you were, like me, aware of the risk, but decided against it. Your reasons are entirely your own.

Join me in the dining room if you agree enough is enough, and that you won't acquiesce to threats. I don't plan to let this stop me, and neither should you.

-C

In the dining room itself, Cabanela has set up coffee and tea for those who want it-- there's no food, because to be honest, he doesn't know how to cook. Two more candles have been lit-- he wasn't really sure what to do about the whole... parasite thing... so Fern's candle will have to make due.]

Comments

[perpend]

Maybe not. Some of these are definitely more severe sounding than they actually are.

[Like how is Aligula being a virgin even noteworthy. The Coordinators are a bunch of weirdos.]

[destage]

...Yeah...

[Like, seriously, some of these are just...what the hell were the priorities of the coordinators, jesus christ.]

They're probably not expecting anyone to ask for context on these, and just expecting us to take it all at face value.

[perpend]

....I'd agree with you, but that seems naive of them, in a way.

There are too many people here to react with suspicion.

[destage]

...On the contrary, I'd think it was just the opposite. That sort of mentality seems far more common in crowds than something like this. It's...I don't want to say unsettling, but it's unusual?

[Or maybe she's just got a fucked perception of the world at large.]

[perpend]

We have several members of the military here. [even if they all have kind of fucked up secrets, uh] There are a number of people equipped to see things as threats, when they have the training.

[destage]

...I don't think they're gonna be out to attack people. [Or, well...] At the very least, Kimblee-san doesn't seem to be. I don't know if any of these other than his own seem to matter, but not even Archer-san seems too bad.

[perpend]

They both seem... reasonable so far.

[I mean.

That's not to say he entirely trusts either of them, but at least they haven't tried killing people yet.]

[destage]

[sometimes that matters more than their sanity levels, okay...okay...]

Archer-san's very cool headed, and Kimblee-san's an interesting person. I think things will be...as fine as they can be, honestly.

[perpend]

We can only hope.