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Who: maybe YOU?
Where: the hotel
When: Day 78, evening/night

[Sure, we've got plenty of unit posts, but what about everything that doesn't fit into one of those? Feel like making yourself a snack? Want to have an emotional outburst in the lobby?

Mingle away, folks.]

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[will lean over and give Anubis a hug, then, cool arms winding around him.]

[hugs back, taking a shaky breath.]

[just going to hold him close, because it's what he can do.]

[he's trying very hard not to cry.]

Th-thank you.

...if you, ah, need or want to cry, go ahead. You've...had so much to bear.

But I'm s-so tired of crying...!

[doesn't really have much to say in response. just...hums soothingly, keeping on hugging him, and pets his hair, trying to be soothing.]

[just gonna let the tears fall for a little while, then.]

[will keep humming and petting his hair, then, holding him close.]

[eventually pulls back far enough to wipe at his eyes with the heel of his hand.]

I'm-- sorry. Thank you.

You don't need to, ah, apologize. Did it, ah, help at all, even if only for a little while?

[nods]

Mm-hm. I really... I really appreciate it.

I'm, ah, glad I could help.

...is there, ah, anything else I can do?

[hesitates]

... I don't know what you're comfortable with. But if you do disagree with some of the others' actions... then talking to them about it. But...

'But'...?

[tilts head, inquiring]

I don't actually know how you feel about what they did. What they keep doing.

...I'm still, ah, working through how I feel about it. I wasn't, ah, present in either game, so I cannot say with certainty what I would have or not done under pressure.

But even if they meant to, ah, protect us, it's putting us into more danger instead.

All I know about the trial is that the point was to prove unity, and that literally no other unit hurt others. That's as far as the explanations got before devolving into "you wouldn't understand because you're a good person or you're too emotional or you automatically will assume the worst."

[sounds a little bitter maybe]

I don't really, ah, know much either, since I just...couldn't catch people, since I was always asleep when they were around. What I know, I found out from Kuzuebiko.

[sighs, and pets his hair.]

...I don't, ah, know what I'll do in the future, but I can at least promise that I'll tell you why I'll do something, even if you don't agree with my logic behind it.

As long as you don't claim that the reason is that you're a bad person.

I'm not, ah, a good person, but that will never be my stated reason for doing anything.

Thank you. Because Loki-san's tried that one on me.

[just. sighs.]

...do you, ah, want some time away from everyone?

... maybe...? I'm afraid of what might happen, though.

...that's, ah, true.

99 suggested a while ago that I, ah, take you and go to the onsen, or somewhere, for a day. And I mean, ah, a while ago - around when I had to replace Joker's eyes. But with everything, ah, happening...