Aftergathering 6

[clearasmud]

Rule 17 hits like a gutpunch. The plan she'd talked about, as improbable as it already was, had just become much harder.

But something - someone - digs its heels in inside her, the same way it did prior to their most recent trial. The presence of their latest, insurmountable hurdle, has the odd effect of only making Youko more determined.

They're going to win.

There's hot soup, rice, and tea in the kitchen. We're holding a meeting tomorrow morning in the conference room. I want you to be there.

- Youko

Comments

[icysemblance]

I know, but...

[She actually takes a sip.]

...are you holding up all right?

[sunsong]

...Yeah. [ Not really. But... ]

Well, I'll get haunted if I start to give up, so...my goal's still the same as it has been.

[ >save the ghosts >kick the conductor in the fucking shin >go home ]

What about you?

[icysemblance]

It's getting harder than I ever thought to just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I'm supposed to be stronger than this, but...

[She shakes her head.]

I'm rambling, I'm sorry.

[sunsong]

You don't have to apologize for ramblin', Weiss. And...I don't think anyone ever expected you to be strong in the face of somethin' like this, you know?

[icysemblance]

[Weiss looks down and shakes her head.]

Maybe not anyone here, but it's hard to shake what my family always said. Expectations don't go away all that easily.

[sunsong]

Maybe not, but...well, I think they're wrong if they expected that of you. It's not like you've stopped moving forward, you know? It's okay for things to hurt.

[icysemblance]

It was okay for things to hurt everyone else. I was expected to be calm, steady, and ice-cold when things happened.