FINAL TRIAL

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TRIAL

After a very, very long six weeks, it has finally come. The last time everyone will need to trudge up those stairs and meet in the master suite. It's do or die time, and hopefully everyone knows what needs to be done by now.

As soon as the guests walk into the room, they will be able to smell the food that the chef has provided: duck l'orange, served up on a nice platter. Eat up everyone!

There are a few unexpected guests this time. A large group of the rats is here, and they show up in a swarm as they carry Gabe into the room, much like how they had carted him off to the Child Daycare last night. Once he is deposited in the room, Gabe will also stand up and remain there, crossing his arm and looking a bit standoffish.

They're not the only unexpected faces around here, though...

VICTIMS: ICHIGO KUROSAKI and THE RESORT THE HOTEL

10 11 GUESTS REMAIN

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[dolleyed]

[ Kohaku meanwhile does approach Aoi. There's... been disputes and she's not the person he's following anymore (he's following nobody now, his choice is his own and it's terrifying) but that doesn't mean she is not important. ]

... you'll leave with her, huh?

[ There's no judgement this time, he just... wants to know for sure. ]

[latebluemer]

[That's for the best, really -- she's only recently had the awareness shoved on her that anyone was following her at all, and she thinks she still prefers just working alongside people or running ahead on her own and maybe waiting for them to catch up.

Her character development is strictly the waiting, here.]

If that's what she decides. And not just Cinque. I... [she has to think for a moment, because the list of people she wants to keep watch over is now so long it would be inconceivable to her self from before this mission even; it's still kind of alarming now] I don't think I'm very good at sitting back in a place like this, anyway.

But, Kohaku-kun... We all remember now. [she remembers him on the comms, of course, every time -- all of them] I think we all get it.

[The weight of his decision, no matter what it is.]

[dolleyed]

.... yeah. It sucks.

[ He sighs a long deep sigh. From how shaky it is, you can tell that he's really holding back on further emotion. ]

This is the first choice I've had since... fuck, I don't know, since I was 16?

[latebluemer]

[She keeps quiet, staring earnestly back as he works through it.]

... I don't know what that's like.

[Despite everything, despite this past year and change and despite the past month or so, she's been lucky: she's had good people on her side all the way through no matter what happened, and now more than ever she looks back and sees that. She wasn't always good at recognizing them at the time.

Especially since the Foundation. Since the world had stopped being recognizable. And now the world outside feels foreign again, like stepping out of that bizarre SCP machine again into the unknown in a mostly-unknown body.

And if she's disoriented now, Kohaku is probably way, way further at sea. She's not sure what she can do for him. But.]

But it's all yours. We ended this ourselves. And no matter what comes next... We're all here.

[In the end, after what they've come through, she can believe in that and reach out and touch it. So she figures the reminder can't hurt, either.]