Some teams and their toys

[crossmyheartandhope]

Who: BAD END=DEAD END, Future is Now, SensitIV, Azrael, and Avante
Where: The respective dorms
When: Day 52

[BAD END=DEAD END, Future is Now, SensitIV, Azrael, and Avante all find the following outside their doors:

2 bottles of hard liquor
1 starter pack for a trading card game
1 board game
1 box of fancy assorted chocolate
1 note

The note reads: "Sorry for the hard time recently. We hope there's no hard feelings. Consider this gift a well-wish that the future will hold a lot for you to smile about. From all of us Heart Soldier Senshi to all of you."]

Comments

[nohalation]

I dunno, but if it assuages their guilt, that's okay.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs at that]

That's one way to look at it.

Anything there catch your interest?

[nohalation]

[points at the trading card pack and board game]

What do we do with these?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They're games. Play them, I assume.

[nohalation]

[SPARKLES AT]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Picks up the board game and sets it on the table]

Want to play?

[nohalation]

Yes!

[TO THE TABLE]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Going to say it's Candyland - fun for the whole family and easy to set up.

Puts the playing pieces out so Angel can pick her color]

[nohalation]

[PURPLE]

I wonder how we play this one.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Give him a minute while he reads the instructions]

First person to make it to the end wins...

Draw a card and move to the corresponding space...

[Looks at the board]

Seems easy enough.

[nohalation]

It’s like traveling the labyrinths at home!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Except with more candy.

. . .

Actually, considering where you're from, it probably has less candy.

[Choosing the blue piece for himself before he starts to shuffle the deck]

[nohalation]

I hope so. I want to know more...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Did the memory you took yesterday help?

[nohalation]

Wellllll...kinda?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Was it a bad memory?

[nohalation]

Oh . . . um, no. It did kinda feel bad at first, but it made me feel . . . how to describe it . . .

[waves her hands around]

Fwah fwah, sparkle sparkle, whoosh. Warm! And nice.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Setting the cards down]

What was it about?

[nohalation]

Let see . . . this lady named Cinderella was hosting a ball. But the ball got ruined for some reason, a lot of people died, including her butler person I think. It seemed like it was me and my court's fault that it happened because we were there so I thought the best thing to do was leave as quickly as we could . . .

Um, Clima, the little birdy looking one, then asked me "Didn't you come here to be her friend?"

I had felt like I couldn't so it was a little surprising to hear, but since he already said it out loud, I said if she didn't mind it maybe . . .

And then she told me she would be overjoyed to. And I dunno if you ever felt a kinda tight feeling in your chest, but I felt that when she said that. I was really happy, I guess.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I see.

So you were doubting yourself when you had no reason to.

[nohalation]

I guess so? It felt like I had a reason to though.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Did you and yours kill all those people?

[nohalation]

I don't know. I don't remember. It seems unlikely though.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Do you feel the need to also be responsible for the people that would hurt others in order to get to you?

[nohalation]

Hmmm . . . it's more like . . .

[thinks about it]

I don't want to be responsible anymore. I want to keep that from happening.