[He doesn’t want to tighten his hold to keep her from squirming because it’ll hurt her, so he is left shifting to accommodate her movement.]
That’s why it’d probably take just one person to make the deal. A “you get everyone including me if I can’t do this” deal. [STOP, he knows this will make Lup mad. He’s just saying.] It doesn’t have to be a deal. If we can find another way. The cemetery, a portal, the doors, whatever. Overloading.
I meant if there’s no option left. We’re going to have to get them out, but we can’t make the wrong move until it’s locked in. And we have to have people on this side. I got another letter from Dimitri. About using the doors during a meeting.
And he emphasized there aren’t many of us left. To be careful.
[ he doesn't like the idea of the deal anymore than lup does, but at least they've both seemed to settle down enough to talk about... doors, or whatever. ]
... So, what, we'd be sending people into the doors while we discuss this tape publicly?
she loses steam anyway, mostly because the splitting headache is coming back. she makes a hgh sound and turns her face to press it against jason's chest.]
You don't have to go. We can send someone else. Someone - you don't have to put yourself on the line.
[she mutters. the fact that she doesn't argue probably is an indicator of how terrible she feels. she'll let jason carry her back to her room - she wants to hold cloud's hand again, so she reaches for it. daisy chain.]
[Needy. He exchanges another glance with Cloud, but then follows Cloud onto the bed so Lup can have the two of them sitting with her. He FROWNS because he does not like the idea of the second being worse than the first.]
Kind of... it was kind of just like a, um. [she pauses. she's not sure she can make herself make the joke that sprang to mind, so she just settles for something flat.] We had to kill our hostages.
[she pulls the blankets closer.] That's what it came down to, in each ring we went through. Killing our hostages or killing the people we care about here.
WELL. she's in a blanket cocoon so she can't see cloud look at jason with worry again before he looks back down at her. he doesn't know what to say because that fucking sucks but it's also completely expected in this place. ]
He continues to frown. Nice, nice, nice. Great. He reaches out to kind of try to make an opening in the blanket to, like, check on her. See if she’s okay.]
We really don’t get paid enough to be offering this form of entertainment.
[she's... in there! she's in the blankets, and she's dry eyed, but she's kind of zoning out a little. so jury's out on if she's okay.]
Ring, yeah. Purple, red, white. Shinobu had one, and it was her place with her sister. She had to kill Tsurumaru or her sister. [a beat.] Mine was my old college. We did a bunch of spirit week games. I had to... I had to pick between letting Harrow burn in an incinerator or shooting Taako. Joonghyuk's was a restaurant. He had to feed Dokja or his sister, and whichever one he didn't would die.
[the joke she was going to make was sibling killer simulator haha]
[ this is more personal information about yjh than cloud has ever learned
and it still sucks. jason's taking care of looking at lup in the blanket pile while cloud gently puts a hand over it on her, unsure. ]
... It wasn't real. They're alright. [ he knows she knows, but like. there's knowing and Knowing, maybe? he is so bad at this how does he keep being invited to comfort sessions ]
He doesn’t try to touch Lup even though Lup probably wants it; Cloud has him covered with the touch. He just doesn’t want to hurt her. He leaves her alone again for right now.]
So they gave you a fucked situation. Unoriginal and unsurprising. What happened after?
[He doesn’t want to force her to talk about the choice if she doesn’t want to.]
[her hand comes out of the blanket nest and rests on top of cloud's. it's a little shaky. she knows it wasn't real. it's the only reason she could make herself do what she did.]
... I didn't sacrifice myself. [she mutters, in that insistent way again. and then:] I shot Taako in the chest. Joonghyuk didn't feed his sister. Shinobu stabbed her's.
That was really it. We went... we went through the three rings. We ended up at a wizard's tower. It got us a tape, and - the chalkboard said Your hurting will be mended, when they return to end it.
[there's more, but it doesn't seem relevant to bring up and she doesn't want to tell them about how badly she rolled the entire cyoa]
anyway, she keeps insisting it in a way that it sounds like she did, but he doesn't say that. he just holds her hand gently like he's worried about hurting her somewhere ]
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[He doesn’t want to tighten his hold to keep her from squirming because it’ll hurt her, so he is left shifting to accommodate her movement.]
That’s why it’d probably take just one person to make the deal. A “you get everyone including me if I can’t do this” deal. [STOP, he knows this will make Lup mad. He’s just saying.] It doesn’t have to be a deal. If we can find another way. The cemetery, a portal, the doors, whatever. Overloading.
I meant if there’s no option left. We’re going to have to get them out, but we can’t make the wrong move until it’s locked in. And we have to have people on this side. I got another letter from Dimitri. About using the doors during a meeting.
And he emphasized there aren’t many of us left. To be careful.
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[she hisses. god. her ears are pressed down against her skull and it hurts because she's missing part of one. ): stop
she listens to the rest, though.]
... I got that too. From Dimitri. [she says, finally.] So maybe we should. We have to deal with trial first, but after, yeah.
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... So, what, we'd be sending people into the doors while we discuss this tape publicly?
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smooches her once to get her to shut up and stop moving.]
More than likely. Two or three might work, but I don’t know. Someone can go with me. I have all my shit in my notebook anyway.
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she loses steam anyway, mostly because the splitting headache is coming back. she makes a hgh sound and turns her face to press it against jason's chest.]
You don't have to go. We can send someone else. Someone - you don't have to put yourself on the line.
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[ lup is concerned but cloud is just being a dick. he's collected the tape by now and wandered back over ]
Let's wait for Sunday to decide shit like this. We don't know who else might be injured or what.
[ Dead. ]
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[But Cloud tells them all to table it, so he sighs in resignation and agreement. Gently, he curls Lup up a bit closer, glancing at Cloud.
Worried.]
…Do you want to talk about it?
[The adventure…]
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Not in here. [she doesn't want to at all, but it might be useful. she can't just let all that be for nothing. maybe they can get something out of it.]
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[ he shares that worried look ]
... Let's go back to the room, then. You can tell us as much as you want.
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[He keeps recognizing that she acts like her head hurts, and he knows the lights don’t help. She can pull it over her if she wants.
He’ll wait before leading the way back to the room again.]
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[she mutters. the fact that she doesn't argue probably is an indicator of how terrible she feels. she'll let jason carry her back to her room - she wants to hold cloud's hand again, so she reaches for it. daisy chain.]
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he also has her key I guess so one of them can open the door to go back ]
Lay down first. You can share after.
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Do you need anything?
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No. I'll make it. [maybe aspirin, later, but really just being in the dark on a soft surface is doing wonders.
there's a pause, as she waits for them to sit down with her. she wants them close.]
... I think - I think this one was worse. Than the first one. [she mutters.]
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... Like I said. You don't have to tell us everything. Just what you can is fine.
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Right. Tell us whatever you want.
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Kind of... it was kind of just like a, um. [she pauses. she's not sure she can make herself make the joke that sprang to mind, so she just settles for something flat.] We had to kill our hostages.
[she pulls the blankets closer.] That's what it came down to, in each ring we went through. Killing our hostages or killing the people we care about here.
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WELL. she's in a blanket cocoon so she can't see cloud look at jason with worry again before he looks back down at her. he doesn't know what to say because that fucking sucks but it's also completely expected in this place. ]
... Each "ring"?
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He continues to frown. Nice, nice, nice. Great. He reaches out to kind of try to make an opening in the blanket to, like, check on her. See if she’s okay.]
We really don’t get paid enough to be offering this form of entertainment.
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Ring, yeah. Purple, red, white. Shinobu had one, and it was her place with her sister. She had to kill Tsurumaru or her sister. [a beat.] Mine was my old college. We did a bunch of spirit week games. I had to... I had to pick between letting Harrow burn in an incinerator or shooting Taako. Joonghyuk's was a restaurant. He had to feed Dokja or his sister, and whichever one he didn't would die.
[the joke she was going to make was sibling killer simulator haha]
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and it still sucks. jason's taking care of looking at lup in the blanket pile while cloud gently puts a hand over it on her, unsure. ]
... It wasn't real. They're alright. [ he knows she knows, but like. there's knowing and Knowing, maybe? he is so bad at this how does he keep being invited to comfort sessions ]
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He doesn’t try to touch Lup even though Lup probably wants it; Cloud has him covered with the touch. He just doesn’t want to hurt her. He leaves her alone again for right now.]
So they gave you a fucked situation. Unoriginal and unsurprising. What happened after?
[He doesn’t want to force her to talk about the choice if she doesn’t want to.]
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... I didn't sacrifice myself. [she mutters, in that insistent way again. and then:] I shot Taako in the chest. Joonghyuk didn't feed his sister. Shinobu stabbed her's.
That was really it. We went... we went through the three rings. We ended up at a wizard's tower. It got us a tape, and - the chalkboard said Your hurting will be mended, when they return to end it.
[there's more, but it doesn't seem relevant to bring up and she doesn't want to tell them about how badly she rolled the entire cyoa]
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anyway, she keeps insisting it in a way that it sounds like she did, but he doesn't say that. he just holds her hand gently like he's worried about hurting her somewhere ]
... Your hurting will be mended..?
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He once again exchanges another look with Cloud. Okay.]
“They”…?
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