Week 2 - after trial

[relieable]

[everyone is probably more than a little stunned over what has been going on. while it is true that the Sergeant told them all this would happen, it's different to have to witness it with one's own eyes. while Nine is led away, and the townspeople leave the court, it is up to the visitors to decide how to move forward. do they talk among themselves? do they reflect on the events that took place alone? one thing that is certain is that the Sergeant got his way this week. will he continue to force them to keep picking each other off in the weeks that come? only time will tell.

this isn't really an after party. it's too sad, but perhaps many people will take comfort in the fact that they are not alone. either mingle at the motel, or somewhere else in town, or even visit Nine in his cell. it's up to you as to how you will spend the rest of this afternoon]

Comments

[integratedsoul]

Yes, he told me only a few days after we arrived. I think it just slipped out of him then, he asked me to keep it a secret pretty quickly.

Didn't want to make Millium-chan sad, especially... now that didn't work out for him.

[relieable]

[ah, a secret. he supposes he better not try to get anymore information out of that, then. Osomatsu looks down at his hands. he's folded them by now, if only to keep from wringing them obsessively]

Yeah, sure didn't... [he's quiet for a moment, before looking up at Cian again] Thanks for, uh... For comforting her.

[integratedsoul]

I wish we could do more.... She's so small... Sakura-chan as well.

[ Cian's seen Osomatsu take care of the other girl and Osomatsu's gained a few points in her liking for it. ]

Even if some children may be already troubled by natural disposition, it still seems needlessly cruel to bring anyone that age here. Those two especially.

[relieable]

Exactly! [his head snaps up and he clenches his hands into fists] I've been sayin' that since the beginning! They shouldn't be here... None of us should, but especially not the kids.

[integratedsoul]

As a child I found it suffocating that adults were so preoccupied with children's safety, but being an adult myself now... I get it.

I want to make their safety my highest priority.

[ Not because they're 'the future' or whatever, but just because they are, right now and right here. They exist in the present and in the present, they deserve better. ]

squints at the broken html in my last tag

[relieable]

[yeah... yeah! he feels the same. Osomatsu is not a responsible adult, or anything, but, man... what he wouldn't give to keep Sakura, and Millium, and the others safe]

We should do whatever we can to protect them! Even if... I don't do anything else while I'm here...

html is a menace

[integratedsoul]

... it's hard, isn't it? Everyone has all these special powers and all this knowledge that might help us get out of it and we're just... normal humans.

[ She's very sympathetic towards the 'even if I don't do anything else' feeling. ]

But this, we can do. We need to.

[relieable]

[he nods at her first statement. it’s super hard...]

Yeah. Let’s work together, then. [a small grin, as he offers his hand to her]

[integratedsoul]

[ The handshake is immediately accepted. ]

Partners then.