shess isn't really the touchy-feely sort, aside from perhaps with leny, but. it feels like flayn could use the encouragement, so he will walk over to give her a light hug.]
[it will take a bit, but honestly, he's right - it's better that she gets it out now.
once she's calmed a little, she wipes at her eyes.]
...is it hard for you, too? Having people that you know right there, and not being able to do anything for them? ...not even being able to go to them unless they call for you...
... Not being able to help those you care about is always difficult.
[it's admittedly not something he speaks from experience in regard to this place—there are really only a few people he's close to, and none of them have especially been under fire. but live a long enough life and you can generally speak to most experiences.]
There must be so much you want to say to Dimitri right now. I'm sorry, Flayn.
[if he can't speak to it from experience here, so much the better. this isn't a feeling that flayn would wish on anyone. she can only hope that shess's experience with this sort of thing was so long ago that it is not uncomfortably fresh.]
...even if I could speak with him, I do not know that he would want to hear what I have to say, anyway. [...] Were he in his right mind, he would have wanted to be caught. I am sure he must be some measure of relieved that he was, now.
But I wanted better than this for him, so I suppose - I suppose the two of us would be at odds, if we could speak, even now.
[she came out of crau1 with intense self-loathing that she still carries with her even now idk what to tell you]
Yes. They are... they have the means of figuring out what to do. It is only a matter of putting it into action, without the Nightman realizing their plan and preventing it before they can.
In some ways, it may have been easier. For many, it's a comfort to have someone to hate who's reachable—as you may know well, from having to play the part of Virgo.
[virgo has been an easy target, until people started realizing that they weren't qi rong.]
But in the end, it would've fallen apart on the guests.
As have all of you. I imagine it must be difficult to be in your shoes as well... at least I am able to see them in person, when they are on that side.
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week 5, saturday
shess will stop by.]
... Flayn.
[that can't have been easy for her, at all.]
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flayn is trying to hype herself up to go back and act like "virgo" again. it's easier said than done. she looks up at shess.]
...yes, Shess?
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softly,]
It's better to let it out now, than later.
[if she wants to grieve—right now is as safe as it gets.]
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her expression crumples at that, and she looks down at her hands.]
If I start, I fear I will not stop.
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shess isn't really the touchy-feely sort, aside from perhaps with leny, but. it feels like flayn could use the encouragement, so he will walk over to give her a light hug.]
... The dead can wait.
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yeah okay she only has so much composure she's just gonna cry on shess, thanks.]
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once she's calmed a little, she wipes at her eyes.]
...is it hard for you, too? Having people that you know right there, and not being able to do anything for them? ...not even being able to go to them unless they call for you...
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[it's admittedly not something he speaks from experience in regard to this place—there are really only a few people he's close to, and none of them have especially been under fire. but live a long enough life and you can generally speak to most experiences.]
There must be so much you want to say to Dimitri right now. I'm sorry, Flayn.
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...even if I could speak with him, I do not know that he would want to hear what I have to say, anyway. [...] Were he in his right mind, he would have wanted to be caught. I am sure he must be some measure of relieved that he was, now.
But I wanted better than this for him, so I suppose - I suppose the two of us would be at odds, if we could speak, even now.
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simply,]
He's a good man.
[not in that shess thinks dimitri getting caught was objectively the best-case scenario, but a simple remark on the nobility of dimitri's character.]
Though knowing that is perhaps a cold comfort for those who care about him.
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[she sighs.]
I wish there were some way to prevent it. ...but I know that there is not.
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[all her castmates but one are dead!!! they have to!!!
she is also dead, so like, if they don't succeed she's also fucked. but that's not exactly her priority right now.]
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They're on the right track, at least. We'll have to make sure they don't stray from it—for your sake, and everyone else's.
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Yes. They are... they have the means of figuring out what to do. It is only a matter of putting it into action, without the Nightman realizing their plan and preventing it before they can.
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... At least it's us here and not the... ones we replaced. That's one victory to hold onto, even when things seem bleak.
[because some or most of the og npcs would absolutely be trying to stop them.]
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...I cannot even begin to imagine how much more difficult this would be for all of them, had the original staff been left to oversee all of this.
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[virgo has been an easy target, until people started realizing that they weren't qi rong.]
But in the end, it would've fallen apart on the guests.
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It will be just a little longer, now. One way or another... just a little longer. [...] We must make sure it does not fall apart on them.
We must continue to do our best to give them a fighting chance.
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... You've had an unenviable job, but you've done well so far, Flayn.
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[dreams really aren't the same thing at all.]