trustfell | Week 7.

WEEK 7
Orihime Inoue, Estellise Sidos Heurassein, and Kirei Kotomine all died this past week. One of your Coordinators died as well, leaving you with a new face but still no end to this. Several of you are finding yourselves at a crossroads: either keep moving forward, or accept the inevitability of fate. It's your own choice, your own decision; no one's going to make it for you.

Over half of you are gone now.

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost...

Once again, a new floor has been opened to you; unfortunately, either this is a particularly strange reward or Jericho is starting to get downright sarcastic. Perhaps there's something in it for you despite the setup; who knows, though there's really only one way to find out.

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[OOC: Welcome to week seven of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Hilda!]

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We'll have to get everything prepared in advance...hmm. Would you say you're okay with a knife...?

[...She's about to use some sort of cute petname, but she just. Kills that off.]

I know you said you had some problems beforehand, but there are a few steps I think you could help me with, and I know you said you had a hard time with eggs beforehand.

[ oh no but petnames are cute! ...this is a conversation to have isn't it ]

Uh... I've gotten better, actually. Terumi taught me kinda how to carve, so I think I've got myself a basis in chopping. [ and, well- ] A-and the eggs thing, I was totally just, uh, distracted.

[ ...mostly ]

[...They should have this, honestly, Sayaka likes the idea of them but is too scared it'd be too much--]

Well...could you prepare the pork, then? All you'll need to do is use the tip of a knife to make small cuts into it. Like...

[Hang on, she'll give Alex a demonstration--laying out the pork, cutting diagonal lines across the chop (boneless, for anyone keeping track at home), and sprinkling salt and pepper on both sides.]

Was that easy to follow, or should I go a little slower...?

[ darn it girls, communicate

She watches carefully, taking in each movement. It's much like when she watched Terumi carving. ...That feels a little sad, honestly, so she pushes it away and focuses on Sayaka. Sayaka... Ah, don't focus on that part of Sayaka!

Ahem. ]

N- no, I got it! [ She demonstrates herself - she does have it, but she also has a bit of a pink face. ]

[what is communication, can you eat it

...Alex, where were you focusing, Sayaka didn't notice but. She catches the pink cheeks, though, and does kind of peer for a bit. Still...]

Well, how about you handle the rest, then? I'll get the eggs and bread crumbs ready...

[...Sayaka does walk over to the sink really quick to wash her hands nice and clean, before going over and poking Alex in the cheek.]

Fine by you?

[ LISTEN??? LISTEN DON'T @ HER??? sayaka just looks very good in profile. ...she looks good from the front too. and from the- oh god alex, the kitchen is not the appropriate time to be a useless bisexual ]

Fine by me! I can, uh...handle my way with a knife, I think.

[ ...A little grin! She's good, she's good. ]

[get ya head in the game alex oh my god

Sayaka, thankfully, seems fit to let this go and smiles brightly at Alex.]

Alright! I'll handle the other stuff, then--you're a big help. ♥

[Let her just get the bowls out, crack some eggs, put some breadcrumbs in the bowl, beat the eggs...probably while whistling a bit.]

No problem. If you're so into something, I wanna help, simple as that!

[ When you can just hear the heart in your girlfriend's voice...

So Alex will get to cutting up this meat, focusing mostly on it, but there's a gentle question in the back of her head. It is Sunday, after all, and she knows she sure remembered something, so...

...But they're having such a lovely time, so it seems a waste to ask. ]

[Do, do do, beating these eggs...]

Hee hee...you know, I'm glad you think like that. Let me know if there's anything I can help with too, okay?

[...]

And if there's anything on your mind. I don't mind hearing you out, you know.

[ ...Well... ]

I'm kind of an open book, aren't I? Or maybe you're just that good at reading closed ones. [ A little teasing in her voice, there, but... ] I...was wondering about what you remembered, this week.

Nah. I can just read minds.

[Sayaka looks over with a wink.]

...But no, I just have good intuitions. I...um... [Sayaka pauses a bit. She...kind of bluffed with a memory she knew would happen, but she feels kind of bad.] ...I need to apologize again, because the dream I had last week didn't make any sense. I wasn't...sure how to explain it--I still don't, but...

This week, I got the exact memory of how I died. ...Turns out the guy broke into the bathroom and...I think he was saying something, and then I found the knife in my gut.

[It was a blur of a moment, even Sayaka admits it.]

...I managed to leave something behind, for Naegi-kun and the others...before I died. I...wanted to make sure he was safe, since...you know.

[ Oh... Oh. ]

Yours are that split up...? [ That short? That's, somehow, the first thing she focuses on. Mm... ]

...I... I'm sorry, Sayaka. [ Why, then...? ] ...You're making the best of it, aren't you? Since...there's nothing else you can really do.

[ Her cheerful attitude. ]

...No, not...not quite that bad?

[Sayaka tilts her head a bit, as if...trying to consider that, before she grimaces. No, let's not with that.]

...Maybe just a bit, but...I think seeing it, it's helped me come to...terms with it, I think. Just a little, at least.

[...]

I didn't...remember the dream I got last week, in this dream. The dream I had last week was that...I was helping the other students seal off the school...

[ ...Oh, that's... ]

What...? You mean- you mean like, sealing it up, so you couldn't get out...? But...Sayaka, that doesn't make any sense.

I know. I...I know, but...

[That smile goes into an almost frustrated look.]

I didn't...get much more context for it. We were just...all there, Naegi-kun tripped on some paper while we were walking, and...I didn't understand it at all.

[ ... ]

If you don't have anything else to go on? Don't...think about it, okay? Don't drive yourself crazy, trying to figure it out. That's my advice, one...mystery-memory-haver to another.

...I'll try not to. I...don't think it played into...why I killed Kuwata-kun, but...

[...Sayaka stops beating her eggs for a moment, slumping a bit.]

Maybe it's for the best.

[ No more meat cutting, then; it's hard to focus on that and a conversation with Sayaka anyway. Alex...wipes her hands of meat-juice and then puts an arm around Sayaka's shoulder. ]

I'm not saying to forget about it. Just...if there's no way to try and puzzle through right now, then there's no way. But I bet you'll understand, eventually...and if you really want help? I'm right here. Ready to...spitball off.

...I know, and I appreciate it.

[Sayaka leans in a bit, sighing...almost contently.]

I'm sorry if I worried you, though. That...was really rude of me.

What, no. Girl. You weren't rude, I just always worry, I'm a...chronic-worry, it's a preexisting condition.

[ Gentle shoulder squeeze. ]

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