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[rollwillpowercheck]

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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Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Rabid Chihuahua: yeah.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[A five minute delay before:]

hurricane: k
hurricane: where u wanna meet?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Rabid Chihuahua: I'm in the library but I could go wherever.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

hurricane: gimme a few
hurricane: c u soon

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Rabid Chihuahua: see you soon.

[He'll still be here with his book pile.]

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[It takes him a while to get there - a while after that to actually track Phoenix down, because he forgot to ask what part of the library he was in.]

[But eventually, Hurricane's there, standing kind of awkwardly on the far end of Phoenix's table. He looks awfully pale.]

...uh. Hey, dude.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Hey.

[Jeez hurricane king's live for. He pushes some books aside.]

Come sit down before you fall over.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

M'okay.

[But after a beat or two of hesitation, he comes and sits down, anyway - on the edge of the seat, awkward.]

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

...Relax. I'm not actually an Ogre.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... I know that. You're a good guy.

[He pauses a beat, and then another.]

S'why I'm here.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Thanks, for coming.

So talk to me?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

I, uh. I'm sorry.

About your leg.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

[Goddess you seem like you need a hug.]

Thanks. I appreciate the thought. But I don't think I can accept the apology until I understand why all that was necessary.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

...we ran into SensitIV, in another round.

They opened fire, so Nem went to engage. They were up on a rooftop, so it. It took me too long to follow her, and then Loki was there, and -

A-anyway, by the time I shook him off, they... they did a real number on her.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

Why did they open fire?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

Does it matter?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

It matters as much as why you went after them, doesn't it?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He's quiet for a long, long minute.]



...I guess.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

So... why? Why did they open fire?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

I dunno. I thought -

[He breaks off - looks away. Then, after another beat or two, quiet:]

- I thought we were friends.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

...What happened?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

Isn't that enough?

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

I'm trying to understand how people who thought they were friends ended up intent on murdering each other.

Why you went for them instead of running.

Why it was impossible to stop and talk.

I don't understand any of it. I wasn't there until the end, I don't have the perspective you do.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[But talking about things is Really Hard? He hesitates, and hesitates longer - and finally makes himself say it, because he owes Phoenix for the leg, if nothing else. He can at least do this.]

...we were in that city, where stuff's real big and real small. We were just gonna go through, but someone was shooting. So Nem went to check and see if the coast was clear, and she - she's got that thing Avante does, where they walk on walls.

She started climbing up to get a better view, and they just - opened fire. No warning, no - no nothing.

So she took off for em, and I tried to back her up, only Loki was there, too. I tried to fight him, to make him let me by, but I - I dropped the ball. And by the time I got over the roof, she was -

She was a mess. Nya and Lucifel were still - there, by the body.

Re: Day 79, early evening

[awakenerd]

[Could he deal any better if it was Crow or Tatsuya or Yasuragi or Hiryuu...? He doesn't know. He doesn't want to know.]

Do you think it's possible they just panicked?

Not that it makes... anything hurt less I guess, even if that was the reason. I'm just... trying to understand where people got so scared of each other.