are we actually living? or are we being kept alive?

[finalring]

After the execution, the survivors are dismissed to rest in preparation for the next week. The miasma curls and turns into each room, letting fall a cold and oppressive atmosphere that fills every corner of the place.

And yet, even in a place that has caused so much grief, life must go on. Thirteen has always been considered to be an unlucky number, but that is the number of people that are left--what will you do, in this false calm?

Comments

living room;

[sageking]

[ And here he was, looking at the walls and general room carefully, before she came closer so that he could notice her out of his peripheral vision. ]

If you intend to enter the room, you should.

[golden_dream]

...

[She shrugs. Then she writes:

"I thought it'd be cathartic to kick them around a little more. ...Just for the sake of it.

But, it won't do anything for me. Will it?"]

[sageking]

No, it won't. If anything, that'll just generate more resentment.

[ Naturally, Gilgamesh didn't approve of it at all. ]

And it's hardly a good use of your time.

[golden_dream]

[She writes:

"Oh, I'm absolutely full of resentment. Maybe if I add to it, I'll reach a point where it loops back and I don't have any at all."]

[sageking]

[ He'll sigh. As he understood it, she just lost her nephew, so he just crossed his arms. ]

In this instance, I don't mean you. Granted, we've enough to contend with as it is, and we don't need anyone adding anymore to it.

[golden_dream]

[A quick nod.]

...

[She writes:

"I actually thought they both were okay. Then, they kill my nephew and my daily food supply.

Hell, if you hadn't been there, Hikage might've gotten away with it."]

[sageking]

It appears you weren't the only one who'd thought highly of them.

[ He'll frown, remembering that show in the trial. Undoubtedly he'd been seeing them at their worst towards the end.

Though...that was not all. ]

I don't doubt he would. The small burn was innocuous enough, but that trace of dark magic which hardly anyone could say was more damning...something invisible to the eyes of many people here.

[golden_dream]

[She writes:

"I wouldn't go so far as to say 'thought highly' but I wouldn't expected a long evil cackling monologue from one of them."

She shrugs, then writes more:

"Oh, I remembered an actual reason... I lost a pen in there. Help me search for it? If I'm not keeping you."]

[sageking]

Hmph. That fool of a detective hardly seemed like the sort, it's true.

[ And he's not commenting on how it seemed to be the same for Hikage. It's obvious to the both of them on that one, after all. ]

...Such a simple request. It's fortunate for you that I've nothing else better to do with my time for the next few hours.

[ In which afterwards he'll draw up everyone for a meeting. ]

[golden_dream]

[She gives a small little smile at that. Nothing better, hm... that opened up possibilities, she couldn't help but think. She writes:

"It's a fountain pen with a sharp point, it has the crest of my family on it. One spread wing with five points.

I threw it at Saphir when he started defending Hikage and saying Battler's death was 'no big deal'. --Reflex, of course. I'm normally not so violent."]

[sageking]

Oh?

[ He vaguely did remember Saphir declaring something like that. He was surprised no one tried to kill the man on the spot, given how precious Battler had been to many people. ]

...It's such a small thing it could be anywhere.

[ He'll take an...idle glance around the living room anyway. ]

[golden_dream]

...

[She writes:

"I only hope it didn't get stuck in him and he took it with him."]

[sageking]

[ ... oh my god, Rosa. ]

I suppose we'd find out by next week if it did either way, hm?

[golden_dream]

[She nods. Continuing to glance around the room...
]
...

[She writes eventually:

"Do you think we'll still have a schedule? It was awfully difficult to follow at the best of times."]

[sageking]

Hmph. If there's a schedule next week, I will see to its immediate end consequences be damned.

[ He would say that he even bothered to follow such a thing was due to him deciding it will be less troublesome for the group, and due to his leniency. These ghosts have no hold on him, as a King! ]

We'd be in no position to continue to listen to such brazen, insolent orders at any rate.

[golden_dream]

[She nods, then writes:

"I agree... beyond the traps, a lady like myself is not used to exercise.

'Ah, but perhaps if I had a partner, I could be motivated,' I thought, for a brief moment."]