Didn't we just do this last week?

[perpend]

[It's starting to look like this is going to be a weekly occurrence.

Just like last week, Cabanela waits a while before he makes his rounds, writing everyone quick notes and sliding them under each occupied door.]

Stay strong.
If you don't want to be alone tonight, meet in the dining hall.
-Cabanela

[Like last week, Cabanela hasn't bothered to provide anyone with food-- that would just be... rude right now, he thinks. Upon first entering, you'll notice that there are now four lit candles in the center of one of the tables.

Feel free to leave mementos for the dead; it's probably appreciated.]

Comments

[midnightsea]

I'm hardly a doctor, but considering what I'm fairly sure is the fatality rate with procedures like that, it makes sense enough.

[He's just gonna catch that, looking from the blood to Giovanni in what may have been mild confusion. What was his angle here?]

...What do you think you're doing, exactly?

[oftheland]

I have to say that I'm glad they found it out long before I was born, at the very least.

[...and he just kind of smirks.]

Well, you were right about different executions. I didn't wager anything, but I figured you may as well have lunch on me because you won there.

[midnightsea]

You can't be serious. You don't care at all, do you?

[you know, about the whole 'undead' thing or the 'almost ruined a whole trial' thing.]

[oftheland]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "care," really. In the sense of certain things bothering me... well, you can be a bit abrasive, I suppose, but you're interesting enough that I don't necessarily want to avoid you.

[midnightsea]

'A bit abrasive'?

[giovanni he nearly got himself accused of murder and almost everyone killed as a result just for the sake of dramatics]

Your standards are truly something to be admired.

[oftheland]

Well... you haven't nearly caused an apocalypse to try and get my attention yet, so you can't exactly be the person I'm most annoyed with at the moment.

[midnightsea]

Caused an apocalypse? You do like to associate with strange people, don't you?

[oftheland]

What can I say? They make life interesting, even if sometimes it's so interesting that it gives you a headache.

[midnightsea]

Heaven forbid things should ever be dull, of course.

[oftheland]

That would just be unacceptable on every conceivable level, so it's something I can't stand for.

[midnightsea]

I suppose I should take what I can get in that respect; I'm willing to guess my likely conversational partners are going to be limited after that spectacle. It'll be a terribly long and tedious confinement if I'm expected to simply talk to myself.

[in other words, 'y'know what you're actually kind of okay']

[oftheland]

Hmmm... it's difficult to say about that, really. It's a lot easier to avoid conversation with someone when you aren't locked into a relatively small space with a certain number of people that seems to dwindle as time goes on.

...granted, I'm sure somebody's going to try and moralize at you sooner or later, if that's the case.

[midnightsea]

Oh, I'm used to the absurdly moral people who think it so easy to stand on what they think is the high ground. My brother was just like that. It's quite easy to disregard, after hearing it so wearily often.

[oftheland]

Well, it's... easy for them, I guess. Whatever floats their boat is fine, but at the same time, they must realize it has to bore the hell out of other people, don't they...?

[midnightsea]

Some of them are just too stubborn to realize not everyone wants to go along with such cliche storybook morality. They'll hold to that unfailing kindness until the day they die, just to be as frustrating as possible.

[oftheland]

It's really true, isn't it? Though... I feel like if someone can actually back up their stubbornness with actual skill and hold to it... well, they're not going to get me to change my mind about things, but I can definitely respect that.