It's time for an after party!

[perpend]

[About an hour after the trial and subsequent execution, Cabanela makes a decision.

They need to do something, keep the morale up, however little it may be.

Under each occupied room door people will find the following note written:


In difficult times such as this, it is important to carry on.
Don't give into despair; we must preservere.
If you don't want to be alone this evening, meet me in the dining hall.
-Cabanela

[Upon entering the dinning hall, you will find Cabanela sitting at one of the tables; he has lit two candles that are placed at the center of the table, but there's nothing else to note.

You'll have to supply your own food, since he doesn't have much of an appetite.]

Comments

[blazeit]

Yeah. And it's all going to mean jack fucking shit if somebody kills again anyway.

[perpend]

I'm not gonna lie and say no one else is going to kill, but I will say I hope we can avoid such an awful mess. I juuuust don't know how to stop people when they decide to strike.

[blazeit]

Hell if I know either. I don't wanna tell people what to do anyway, I just want them to not fuck around with the rest of our lives.

[perpend]

With any luck, we'll find a way to make sure it doesn't happen again.

If we don't get lucky...

[He... can't really afford to be cynical, not now.]

It's enoooough to make a person angry.

[blazeit]

I don't really like the feeling of gambling something like this on getting lucky. But... yeah, same.

[perpend]

[Cabanela gives a nod.]

I don't know if there's much we can hope for. I knooow that's not something anyone wants to hear, and I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but...

Well. I'll tell you what I'm going to tell everyone: keep your guard up.

[blazeit]

You don't have to tell me that, I already was, and that was before somebody got strung up like the star on a Christmas tree.

[ Bakugou was that detail really necessary. ]

[perpend]

[Kid...]

Being cautious isn't a bad thing, it's just... well. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you.

Stiill, you did good work today, even if you feel you don't need the praise.

[blazeit]

[ hhhhnnnngnggghhhhhhh — ]

[blazeit]

Yeah, nah.

I still want the praise though.

[ why this ]

[perpend]

[That makes him smile, even if it's pretty grim.]

I really am grateful for your quick-thinking, I'm not just saying all of this. You... well. You saved all of us.

[blazeit]

... Maybe I did pull a decent amount of weight, but everybody voted of their own free will. We all decided together, so. Can't really take the credit for that.

[perpend]

Maybe, but you certainly helped a lot of people today.

We might have screwed up, might have let Reaver up and walk away from this.