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

[crimsonchin]

Huh, I didn't, actually.

[ Asuka's plopped down on her bed, circling her legs in the air... ]

Thanks for the food, though. I just didn't feel like coming out. Group gatherings and feeling pow-wows aren't my thing.

[sunsong]

Never would've guessed.

[ CHEEKY...Sol takes the chair at the desk, apparently intending to stay at least a little while. ]

And it's no problem...though, what're you doin'? Exercises?

[crimsonchin]

Just some reps. I haven't really had the chance to do all that much exercise while I've been here. The Air Force regimen is pretty tough...

I take it things are pretty damn somber out there.

[sunsong]

...Yeah, more than a little bit. Some of the people here...haven't seen death before, I don't think.

[ But Sol has? ...Well, apparently. ]

As to the exercisin' bit - we could always run laps in the halls, I guess?

[crimsonchin]

Hell of a way to introduce them. It must be a damn nightmare. This Conductor bastard is a real piece of work.

Laps don't seem like a bad idea.

[sunsong]

I don't think there's a single good way to introduce anyone to it, but...this takes the whole damn cake, yeah.

[ MURDER TRIALS OR DEATH? ]

...When d'you wanna meet up to do 'em?

[crimsonchin]

Someone dying in their sleep is probably the best way. ...It's sure as fuck how I'd have liked to be introduced.

We can start tomorrow after I take my inventory. That's be around 9 or so.

[sunsong]

Works for me. Make it a daily thing, you think?

[ She likes to keep active and THIS PLACE MAKES IT HARD. ]

...As to introductions, I...would've preferred that, too.

[crimsonchin]

Yeah. It couldn't hurt, can it?

[ Better than sitting around, after all. ]

...It's never easy.

[sunsong]

It'll give us something to look forward to!

[ YOU KNOW, UNTIL ONE OF THEM INEVITABLY DIES ]

...No. I...for me, the first time was...war.

[crimsonchin]

War...

[ She stops cycling and sits up, to look at Sol. ]

...I don't envy you.

[sunsong]

...Yeah. Those who cause war are truly monsters, aren't they?

[ Those who bring death. So many deaths... ]

[crimsonchin]

The ones who fight in them become monsters, too, if they're not careful.

[sunsong]

...Yeah. I guess we both know a little too much about war, don't we...?

[crimsonchin]

I guess so. It's unfortunate.

But someone's gotta fight.

[sunsong]

I guess you have a point.

[ She hesitates a moment, then asks: ]

Have you ever killed someone?

[crimsonchin]

No, never. ...I could, if I needed to. Very easily, in fact. I was a prodigy when I was in the military. But I've never had to kill anyone or anything that wasn't an angel.

[sunsong]

Is it that easy? Death has a way of...sticking with you. Even if you don't know their names or faces, it's still...a sin you can't erase.

[crimsonchin]

When I kill the Angels, it comes incredibly easily, actually. As for humans...well, I imagine it would be just a bit different, but I have my fair share of sins already. ...And I do what I have to do.

[sunsong]

Yeah? What sins are those?

[ Sol, don't ask shit like that... ]

[crimsonchin]

Nothing as heinous as murder or theft or cheating or something along those lines, I promise. ...But like I said, I do what I have to do.

[sunsong]

I wasn't worryin' over it. I was just...curious.

[ She wasn't about to judge. ]