what did they aim for when they missed your heart?;

[recrypt]

listen i'll set up a shitpost at some point (or you could give me one fwancy)

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week 2, saturday

[soba]

[ wait where is she. there are now in a hallway i don't want to tab back to plurk.

but toi pauses when he sees her. hm. ]

[recrypt]

[ she is honestly acting like

nothing's out of the ordinary? i don't know what you expect, toi. she's not having a crisis. she's just passing by in the hallway.

except he stops, and, hm. ]

... Is something the matter?

[soba]

Do you have a plan in case the antidote doesn't work?

[ he assumes she does but also

people are stupid ]

[recrypt]

I'm prepared for what will happen if it doesn't work, yes.

I wouldn't have wanted to reveal it so publically in the first place. [ not like... that, anyway. ] Everyone's hopes are up now, and we don't even know if it will work.

[soba]

[ he just nods. honestly... that's fair. ]

Well... it wouldn't be your fault, or whatever.

[recrypt]

[ she shrugs. ]

People can blame me if they like. I will be killing him, after all, if the antidote doesn't work.

[soba]

I meant, it's less your fault that they gave you a shitty item.

[recrypt]

I suppose that's true. But people aren't always logical when they're worked up.

[soba]

... yeah.

I've noticed.

[ the last hour of trial is always just

whew ]

[recrypt]

... Are you angry?

[ or not. angry, maybe, but. something in the same emotional category.

he cared about meltryllis, it looked like. and then there was asch. ]

[soba]

Of course I'm angry.

[ about a lot of different things. ]

[recrypt]

[ a measured glance. ]

But you're not moping about it, are you?

That's good.

[soba]

Moping isn't going do any of us favors.

[ sometimes, you must channel your inner teenage rage into something productive ]

[recrypt]

[ she approves, Toi. she also tilts her head for a moment.

then beams, her smile sharp. it's somehow a more genuine expression than her usual soft ones. ]

... That's the spirit. We'll figure a way out of this yet.

[soba]

Right. Just because we haven't yet doesn't mean we won't.

[ he knows a lot of people were expecting to have escaped by now, but

sometimes things just take time, unfortunately. ]