AFTER-ICE-CREAM-PARTY

[pecker]

[Boy everyone is so bloodthirsty tonight. And now a kid is dead and another is gonna execute. Do y'all need some baskin robbins, because it seems like you do!!! So before everyone can leave, Niwatori raises her voice louder than it's gone before now to draw a little attention, and then deflates immediately when she actually gets it.]

Excuse me, please! U-um... this case was really hard, and I think we could all use some time to cool our heads before we finally go back. So... ice cream? Who's with me?

[she'll lead the pack there and anyone else can go home or to visit Clarisse on the set of Orange is the new Black.

Niwa's not that good of a host though, she just gets her own ice cream and lets everyone serve themselves. Who is she to limit your freedom. (Someone who doesn't want to be partly responsible for a Millium Monstrosity, that's who.)]

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[snideper]

[She gives a little puff of air, actually, a noise that could have been amused if she made it even an hour ago.]

I am. It's an unpleasant memory for everyone stuck with it, but that's the kind I'm leaving everyone with.

[But she takes no pleasure from that; it's more like there's some irony she recognizes but cannot quite bring herself to appreciate, even if she tries.]

[odasaku]

Is this the kind of memory you wanted to leave behind?

[snideper]

My wants have only ever been to serve Lady Eremiya. Nothing else matters.

[odasaku]

What about yourself, though? You're a person, too.

[snideper]

I'm a soldier for Lady Eremiya. That's all.

[odasaku]

You're far away from her. Even if it's just for a couple hours...you can be someone else.

[snideper]

...

We're... [Something shifts in her expression, eyebrows knit together; a realization that he won't know what she means, that she has to admit it aloud:] I'm nothing without Lady Eremiya.

That's all. That's all there is to it.

[odasaku]

...I see.

[ and, somehow, he means it. maybe he hadn't gone through the same thing that clarisse had to go through, but he knows very well what it's like to feel lost and without a purpose.

the idea of being able to change her mind was nothing more than a foolish hope.

and yet, oda still feels guilty, for some reason. like he wasn't able to stop all of this from happening. ]

See you, then. [ and with that, he's out ]