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[Every week was bad, but this one? This one most likely has hit them all the hardest.

All well, almost all of them. Bruce certainly can't speak for everyone here... not that there's a lot of them left now.

Anyway.

Working with Speedwagon in the kitchen the two of them whip up a decent, simple fare of food just so that their stomachs won't go empty - Bruce knows that a lot of them won't have much of an appetite at all after what happened, and he can't blame them. He doesn't have much of one himself even after the food is done.

Once everything is set up in the dining hall a couple of hours later after everything that happened downstairs Bruce goes around to slip a notice to every body's room. (Everyone that is still alive, that is.)]

I know what happened was hard to take in. I feel the same as well.
If you wish to be alone I understand, but if you need company, or somebody to talk to... there is food in the dining hall made by Speedwagon and I.

I sincerely hope to see you there.

- B. Banner

[For Sigrun and Cherryblod respectively, he'll have the note along with a plate of some food from the gathering by their door.

As mentioned earlier, there's a small fare of simple, light food and snacks for everyone to eat if they have the stomach for it. For better or for worse there's alcohol too, although Bruce certainly isn't going anywhere near it. But if anybody needs that drink after what happened, he can't blame them for the need for it, either.]

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[Speedwagon's at the party for, well, the whole of it- he's not going anywhere, and he gets a good idea of who's coming and who isn't soon enough.

Maybe that's why he's surprised that Cherryblod shows up so late. Or maybe it was that he didn't expect him to come at all. After that trial, he didn't blame him in the slightest.

....Heck. He was about to head out, but. Here he is, quietly pulling up a chair beside him, sitting himself down with an even look, despite the similar but slight redness in his eyes.

He nods, solemnly.]

...Didn't want to believe it was him, and I pushed anyway. Didn't want him to die, but I voted for him anyway.

[He can't meet Speedwagon's gaze.]

....It's simple survival. The same thing we've been going through every week.

[His voice was quiet. And no, he doesn't expect Cherryblod to look at him.]

If we didn't push against him, then we'd all be dead, then the Kingmaker would get just what he wants.

If I hadn't had Yosuke here I might not have said as much as I did.

[Guilt is clear in his voice.]

It's not that I don't care about you. You're a dear friend. You're all dear friends. But he was my son.

I get it. As much as I can. [He won't admit to anything else.]

I've seen the sorts of things families do for one another... lots of great sorts caught in one mess or another. Sometimes it ends badly, but you never wish it to.

[...His hand finds itself on cherry's shoulder again. Just like a week ago.]

No. Never would. If there had been anything else I could have done...

Should I have known something was wrong? Aside from Sigrun, I spoke to him more than anyone else here.

[If there is a way to blame himself, he'll find it.]

Hard to say if any one of us could have noticed something that was off about him. Besides that bit about 'texting' the Kingmaker he did so often. [That could have... been a clue, couldn't it? Not that he really thought so. Everyone messaged him for some reason or another.]

Try not to blame yourself... even if you knew, it may not mean you could have done anything.

[worst case... cherryblod turned up dead one day. He hated thinking that.]

But I could have at least tried.

[Instead of what really happened - not being able to help his son because he didn't know anything was wrong in the first place.]

Right. If anyone here could have tried, I'd put money on it being you.

[He means it. Cherryblod could have done something. It's... it was unfair.]

...Nothing I can do about it now. Too late for anything but regrets.

That's the worst part of it. And it sounds like Kingmaker's getting worse and worse about leaving us alone.

What did we even do for him to decide this was the week to kill us?

Might have thought that no one was going to do anything this week. We're down to about half of us now, so it's possible.

[He speaks through half-gritted teeth. The guy was seriously starting to get on his nerves.]

So he had to have his own fun for once.

[...He sighs, then pulls out his phone and texts something brief before he can think better of it.]

....What you doing?

[Cherry....?]

Just telling the Kingmaker to go fuck himself. Nothing you need to worry about.

[....Ah.

You know what, that's going to get the most happy smile Speedwagon can muster. And a thumbs up. you do that, cherryblod.]

[Cherryblod's smile in return is not exactly happy.]

Wasn't going to show him mercy before this, but now when I get a hold of him...

They will be plenty of time to deal with him once we can. He's got to be trying something again soon, now that his "kill switch" is gone.

We weren't supposed to survive that trial.

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No, we weren't.

We'll come up with something. This isn't going to stop us. It can't.

It wouldn't be right... would it?

[Ugh, this day...]

We just need to keep going... eventually we'll get through.

...Right. Because, he told me he believed we'd get out of here - I don't want to disappoint.

Wouldn't do to give up now, not after the awful things we've muscled passed.

[And... he's all concern now.]

You need anything else then? Extra food, or a drink?"

I'll be alright.

[He probably will not, but he manages a weak smile.]

I'd like to think that.

[too bad he can't]

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