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

[blazeit]

Yeah, I'm honestly wondering that as well. Maybe he's stressed out or something? ... It definitely feels like his plan is going off the rails, after all.

[icysemblance]

It does, and not in a good way. It feels like the 'we're going to hit a wall going a hundred miles an hour because we went off the rails' way.

[blazeit]

Probably, yeah. Things not going too great for Observant probably means things are about to get even shittier for us...

[ Although he's pretty sure things can't get worse than after that last trial. Fingers crossed, at least. ]

[icysemblance]

That's what gets me. He's had things pretty well under control, until what happened with Dio. I wonder if that's what shook him up, realizing he didn't have as much control as he thought.

[blazeit]

I think that's maybe when he realized something or... somebody was fucking up things for him. I mean, if you think about it, though, things already got screwed up from the very beginning, he didn't realize we were all missing memories.

[icysemblance]

No, and he's said he doesn't have control over the ones we get back - I asked over the phone a while back. Either way, whatever this something or someone does, if it's making his life hard, it's going to wind up making our lives hard too.

[blazeit]

Well, I wish whoever or whatever's making things so hard for him would stop messing with us in the process. It's rude as hell.