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?

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[golden_dream]

[She reels a bit at that, a hand reaching up to massage her head with a pained grimace... but she stops when she realizes she doesn't want to touch her head yet.

Instead, she'll write:

"Battler had a lot of emotional connections, no doubt. Every one of them will turn into a knife aimed at our hearts.

We'll have to turn them to iron and tell ourselves it's just the words of some deranged thing with his face; nothing more.

I'm preparing myself."]