Opinions without 3.1415 are just Onions (Week1 post trial)

[ghostricked]

After everything, the house seems almost too still and too mundane. At least as long as the doors to that room remain closed. One by one those covered in what was once their teammate are lead to the showers or change in silence. There is no warm meal waiting for them. No words of encouragement.

Life goes on, regardless.

Comments

[soupervillain]

Hey, if I cry like a baby, it's an extremely cool and hardcore baby, okay?!

[ But, yeah, Battler definitely gets it. Giovanni puts his knitting down for a minute to look fully over at him. ]

Sounds like you've been through something like... you know, all that... before. Does it... does it get easier?

[boardreversal]

[And he...pauses for a long moment at that question.

Does it get easier?

'...The third game...definitely felt easier.
Even though I was being torn apart regularly by those ass-nee-chans, I felt...
...Like I was more detatched from the situation.
...I still feel like I am, too.']

...I don't think easier's the right word. I think it's more...that it affects you a lot less. You just....get used to it.

[and he sounds like he hates that fact, because...well, he does.]

[soupervillain]

[ Quietly: ] I don't know if I wanna get used to it.

[ On the one hand, it would probably be easier to go about life if he didn't feel a new round of crying coming on every few minutes. On the other... his friends are gone, and one of them killed the other. Is that something he can ever accept being okay with? ]