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

[icysemblance]

In my own case, if he's kidnapped me, there's a very good chance the rest of the team is -

[She refuses to say 'dead'.]

- in danger.

[decrees]

Right.

[There's a good chance everyone is dead...]

We'll do what we can to make it through this. We'll find out what he did to them.

[icysemblance]

[Weiss calms her nerves by taking a few long sips of her tea. Panicking won't help, and she refuses to cry in front of anyone. She nods, looking down just a little longer - till she's sure she won't look up with tears in her eyes ad a lump in her throat - before nodding.]

One week at a time, right?

[decrees]

One week at a time. Eventually we'll be able to work out what happened.

[If we really are regaining memories then maybe that will help, but otherwise... Well, maybe the Conductor will break eventually and tell them something important.

It's not much, but they have to keep going.]

[icysemblance]

[That's right. One week at a time.]

...maybe the memory I get this week will help. I have to at least try and think that it will.

[decrees]

...Do you believe that was a memory? I had assumed it was a dream. It doesn't make sense otherwise.

[Headtilt... Regaining a memory for a successful trial... that seems pretty morbid.]

[icysemblance]

It felt too realistic to be a dream. I don't usually feel my heart beating like it did, and I don't usually dream of so many monsters.

[decrees]

[Too realistic...? Well, that's probably a good way to tell, but Logan can't exactly gauge that very easily.]

I see. Were you able to learn anything from that dream? How you were taken here, perhaps?

[icysemblance]

There's a possibility that in the chaos after the battle at Vale, someone was able to get close enough me to grab me. I was drained at that point.

[decrees]

What of your friends? Would they have been capable of fighting against your kidnapper?

[icysemblance]

Yang definitely would have; she gets stronger with every hit she takes. Ruby would have found the energy somewhere in her, and so would Blake.

[decrees]

They were all with you in that memory, correct?

[So how the hell did this happen?]

[icysemblance]

Every last one of them. Most of the active teams at Beacon were out, and a few of the teams that came in for the Vytal Festival Tournament -

[That seems to give her an idea.]

- maybe there's something I just don't remember yet between the end of that battle and the future. I don't know what, but...

[decrees]

Ah... Perhaps that's it. I wonder how many memories were taken away...?

[Age: 33. Logan doesn't want to think about it. His memories haven't been altered. There's no way.]