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

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Lectures? [She's a little faint, oh wouldn't that be something.] I'd probably pass out before I even start speaking. I'd probably stick to essays.

[All of this; I'm gonna, you will, I will and so on, as if they'll live. As if they'll get out of this. Please, something bless her with that confidence.]

...You're saying we have a lot to go back to.

[nankurunaisa]

I'll have to make sure I see those, too, then! I'll get to tell everyone I knew someone really famous in the literary world!

[That sounds like a lot of fun to her, okay?

And Hibiki's sure they'll get out. She just. Has to believe that.]

We do. I don't know what it's like for you out there... [The rope burns, for one. She's connected the dots about something rough out there for Ashley.] ...But we've both got family and friends, right? So we're both gonna get out. Nankurunaisa!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[It seems like the whatever-it-is translator missed something, didn't it? Ashley's drawn to that; a question's always a nice way to process things.]

Nan-what? What'd you just say?

[nankurunaisa]

Nankurunaisa! In Okinawa, it means..."everything's going to be alright in the end," you know? Even if things look hard in the present!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Handy word. I...don't know if I can really believe it right yet. But...you go on believing in it for us, and maybe that'll help?

[nankurunaisa]

[Ah. It's just hard for Hibiki to maintain that level of happiness sometimes, but when Ashley asks...]

Hehe, of course! I'll hold onto it until you're ready to use it, too, 'kay? Don't forget it, 'cause I'm gonna have you repeat it back to me when you're ready!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[She tries to offer a smile. ...It's almost there.] As long as you walk me through it slow. I don't think it'll come out of my mouth right.

[nankurunaisa]

Of course! I won't laugh or anythin', it's kind of a mouthful, huh? But I can't carry the word for both of us forever, alright?

[That means that she wants to see you smile someday, pal.]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Yeah, alright. I get it.

[SHE'LL TRY. SHE...REALLY WILL.]

[nankurunaisa]

I know it's gonna be hard, but if I learned anythin' from all of this...it's that I'm ready to work together with everyone, and that includes you. So...I'm gonna keep doing my best.