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Week 3.
Two more people are dead. Byakuren Hijiri has been murdered and Undyne has been executed. That brings us up to four deaths and twenty-five remaining Participants. You're doing well. Take all of Saturday to rest and sleep. You've earned it. On Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock. With no more bodies to be discovered, it seems you're safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've remembered something else. Or was that another really bizarre dream? Like last week, there's a new floor to explore. A reward for your efforts, of course. There's something else new, however, and as you approach the foyer you might hear the beautiful sound of... chickens? Chickens. Those are definitely chickens. It looks like Tabby's petition has worked, you have chosen chickens. Perhaps even more important are the rule changes, effective immediately. You might want to take note of them. |
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[OOC: Welcome to week three of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains as well!
The Letters and Switchboard posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]
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[ Sighing, slowly enough so that he has ample time to see what she means to do, Youko moves to place one of her hands on his. She doesn't know if he'll let her, but she's tired of not knowing what is and isn't okay when it comes to physically reaching out to Logan. At this point, she'd rather get a bad reaction than continue to guess.
When that's concluded - for better or for worse - she'll continue. ]
I'm not interested in absolving you of any rightful blame, [ Well, she doesn't care, but saying that might make it easier for Logan to listen to her ] but tell me. Did you have any way of knowing how it would go? Does travelling overseas normally end this way?
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...The most we knew about the land overseas was that it existed. We had no idea if there would be civilization there or if the people would be hospitable. We thought we were prepared for everything.
[...]
The people there were kind. They nursed me back to health after...
[He shakes his head, the gesture brief but agitated.]
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...I can't fault wanting to explore the unknown, but going yourself first was really dangerous and risky. [ her shoulders actually start getting tense, because the more she thinks about this... ] You weren't just not thinking of Albion, you weren't even thinking of yourself!
[ SHE MAD. ]
I'm glad someone nursed you back to health when things went badly, because it sounds like you could have died!
[ AND THEN THEY COULD NEVER HAVE MET???? Youko hasn't noticed, but she's squeezing his hand pretty damn hard. LOGAN, YOU IDIOT... ]
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[He pauses, then shakes his head.]
I... yes. I could have died in there.
[Logan glances away, he can't look at Youko as he continues.]
I can't remember everything about the encounter. I'm not sure how I made it out. I was able to reach the desert and I passed out. When I awoke, I was in the town of Aurora. It took months for me to recover to a point where I could return home and even then...
[His shoulders tense and Logan's hands curl into fists.]
...Some things never heal.
[Just in case you were wondering where the scars came from...]
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...I do understand. I... may have been a little harsh.
[ Like with that grip, uh. Yeah, relaxing that now...
Perhaps she's wondered a little, by this point.
Her next words are reactive, rather than thought out. ]
Some things don't need to heal.
[ She's prepared to back it up, though. Youko offers him her unoccupied hand. ]
Give me your hand?
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Would it be alright if I took this off for a moment? It's fine if the answer's no.
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Nothing needs to heal for you to do this.
[ With that, she slides his hand up so that it's cupping her cheek. ]
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And nothing needs to heal for me to do... this.
[ And with that, she slides his hand back down so that she can kiss the back of it.
She's careful to make sure her eyes are nowhere but his hand while she's completing the motion. He doesn't need to watched right now.
Once it's done, she sets his hand back down but doesn't let go. Now she'll watch to see what he'll do. ]
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Well, Logan really doesn't know what to do with that. He's turning red, but it's a surprisingly subdued reaction given how pale he is. He glances away and while it looks like he might be sort of angry, it's very clear that that's not what this is.]
I-- Yes, well, that's... You're right, of course.
[He normally doesn't trip over his words this badly, alright.
That was so cute though...]
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She still doesn't let go. ]
Of course I am!
[ ...That's honestly a little weak, for her. ]
So... you like the chickens, right? Would you tell me about it?
[ She wouldn't do this with anyone else, but Logan's so... serious? Earnest? That she expects he'll give her a serious answer. ]
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Yes, I do. I had a pet chicken when I was a child. My mother was always fond of dogs, but I never cared for them much, so she threw some other ideas out there and apparently I thought a chicken sounded like a great pet. Unsurprisingly, father was horrified and Sir Walter wasn't amused.
Mother allowed me to take Rex everywhere with me, including to any hearings I was sitting in on. Apparently she saw no problems with having a chicken in the throne room.
[...It was because it was hilarious, his mother had the worst sense of humor.]
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[ where does she even start with that ]
Are they common pets in Albion? I think they're just livestock in Japan.
[ Although given there was a "unsurprisingly horrified" in there, maybe not. ]
So when you were a little prince... you sat in on hearings... and brought your pet chicken with you.
[ ... ]
I've never pictured anything cuter.
[ MAY AS WELL JUST SAY IT because what the heck, that's so cute ]
You'd be hugging it, right? Please tell me you'd be hugging Rex.
[ cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute ]
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[They're livestock in Albion as well, but they have a tendency to escape and just sort of wander the streets sometimes. No one finds this weird.]
Ah... Of course. I was very shy when I was a child; I didn't like to talk to anyone other than my parents. Having Rex with me made things a bit easier.
[Okay, so it was more like cripplingly shy, but he eventually got over it!]
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They're sparkling so hard she can't manage anything else.
No words, only sparkles now. ]
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What is it?
[what did he say that got that reaction]
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[This is why he wasn't allowed to talk to Reaver until he was older, because Reaver told him to go play under a carriage.]
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But children need to learn! Especially a little prince...! You had a land to rule one day!
[ If you think Youko is going to take every opportunity available to say "Little Prince": you would be correct. ]
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[Relentless-- oh.
Just let him try to shake that off.]
...I was actually terribly shy even when I was crowned king. It took quite some time to get to where I am today. I doubt it would be possible if not for--
[...Reaver. Dammit.]
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I knew him for a week and I miss him. I can't imagine what it must be like to lose someone who's been there your whole life.
[ When she says it, it sounds so painful to someone who's spent most of her life alone. How do you recover from a thing like that? ]
How do you manage?
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[Logan shakes his head, but apparently the floodgates have been opened, because he speaks up again.]
I spend the majority of my nights awake, replaying that trial and trying to find some way to prevent that from happening. I shouldn't have said anything. I condemned him, I asked him to confess... Everything I did was selfish. I wanted to remain alive. I wanted to be angry at him, so it wouldn't hurt as badly when he died. I thought I could handle it... and I have never been more wrong in my life.
[His hands are shaking a bit, but he's trying very hard not to show it.]
He supported me during the worst moment of my life and I... I turned my back on him. I let him die. I know there wasn't another option, but... There must have been something else I could have done.
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She's been an idiot. ]
Logan!
[ It comes out with more emotion than she'd wanted, but it's done, it's out there, and she has to push forward, for the both of them. Her own hands shaking slightly, Youko moves to cup his cheeks - first one hand, then the other. She means to move them as slowly as she did last time, but there's an urgency she can't fully suppress. ]
You didn't turn your back on him. What you did was not sentence 27 people to death. Do... do you really think you wouldn't feel just as badly, if you had to live with that?
...You weren't being selfish then. But aren't you being selfish now? [ There's no harshness behind her words, just an upset tone and a weak smile. ] If you'd done anything else, all of us would be dead - not just you. The children. Me. And because you'd be dead, you wouldn't even have to suffer your actions. You'd be free.
I told him... I told him I thought failure would end in punishment. He still acted. You didn't do anything wrong, Logan. He did.
[ fuck damnit, reaver. ]
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...I couldn't sacrifice everyone for him. I know that. But I could take no comfort in that fact. That's...
[Disgusting.]
I knew most people would not be convinced to spare him. Six million lives... there was no way for anyone to know if he was lying. If I was lying as well. Using them as a shield like that... I would normally find that horrible. But he was right. Without him, Albion doesn't stand a chance.
[...]
He spoke to me about that as well. Only someone rash would act immediately without knowing the stakes... He agreed with me. He made it sound like there was nothing stupider. But then he...
I don't know if he lied to me or if he changed his mind at some point. Perhaps I could have prevented that if I had... I don't know. I don't know and I'll never know. There's so much I never asked him; there's so much I never said. I... I never thanked him, for...
[Logan is shaking and he tries to pull back. He's not sure he wants to be touched right now, because he's always recoiled in on himself when he's messed up by something. He shuts everyone out - that's just what he does.
Reaver was the only person willing to barge in and force him to talk.]
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