WEEK 4.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 4 Three more have died this past week. Milla Maxwell was killed for breaking a rule, Chiyuki was murdered, and you all had a hand in executing Yoshikage Kira. It seems like this isn't going to stop any time soon. How many more will join them this week? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Despite the Wordsmith's reaction to the last trial, it seems as though you've been rewarded once again for a job that was...well, it was done, even if he didn't explicitly say it was well-done. Another door has opened in that stairway, it seems, leading you further down into the building; once again, there are more rooms down there, more things to occupy yourselves with. Or perhaps just more means to get creative with regards to how you take initiative with your fellow Apprentices. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 23 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 22 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 20

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week four of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Wordsmith, you can do so through letters or the switchboard!]

Comments

[oyashiromama]

[Her hair's pretty simple, if abundant, but that's not what gives Hanyuu pause, solely.]

To sketch...why?

[matchbreaker]

[ Why, indeed...? ]

I don't know. Maybe to remember people.

[oyashiromama]

[She drew pictures of her family, before...]

...Let me...let me get some of these things back and see if I can sit for a picture. [She's so on edge but maybe this'll be nice.]

[matchbreaker]

Well, if you can't, we can do something else! No skin of my nose!

[ She even... laughs at this. Haughty like. ]

[oyashiromama]

I... I can, everything's just very on my mind today.

[matchbreaker]

[ Hmmm... ]

But do you want to do anything?

[ She is way, way too considerate of Hanyuu to even ask this........ ]

[oyashiromama]

[Waste away to nothing, staring at her ceiling? no that's not a good answer-]

N-not...in particular...

[matchbreaker]

Okay, then I get to pick it! Let's go to the bar!

[ Wahahaha ]

[oyashiromama]

A-aah?! Th-the bar...?!

[YOU JUST SAID YOU HAVE NO PREFERENCE HANYUU SORRY]

A-au...alright...but I'll avoid drinking anything.

[matchbreaker]

Why not?! I want to see you get drunk!

[ WHAHAHAA...

Arm around her shoulder. ]

[oyashiromama]

I-I don't much have a taste for it.

[please spare her....]

[matchbreaker]

So what?!

[ HAHAHA.

Dragging her... ]

It'll be funny and people do that when they want to have a good time or are in a funk, right?!

[oyashiromama]

[Nnngh-]

Well, not this person, so I'd rather not, thank you!

[matchbreaker]

Oh come now, it'll do you some good.

[ Either way???

To the bar unless she mounts some serious resistance ]

[oyashiromama]

[Well, Hanyuu's a pushover so she's not going to really drag her feet, but when they get there she will be insistent about not drinking, so much that she pointedly pours herself a glass for water.]

[matchbreaker]

[ BUT SHE HAD THIS VODKA?

In fact she's holding it out once they make it there. ]

See, it even looks the same!

[oyashiromama]

I'm not giving in and you can't make me.

[Siiiip.]

[matchbreaker]

Come now, it'd be fun!

[ Hahahaha.... But fine, she'll just clank down the bottle n the counter and get on the stool next to her. ]

Hanyuu, I simply must tell you about my memory earlier this week.

[ Which she knows is abrupt, but. ]

[oyashiromama]

[...You know what, sure, this is better than talking about her own memories, she'll take it. With a little sigh:]

What did you remember, Elda?

[matchbreaker]

I can show you, actually.

[ And she plants herself to leap over the bar! Apparently, she pre-planned this, because what she produces is a drawing of her entire family. She pushes it towards the other woman over the side of the bar, her eyes alight. ]

I have three grandchildren. Three. My James... [ God that still hurts ] My James might be gone, but he's given me an enormous gift.

[ Hanyuu will have seen Karin before, and she saw a drawing of the four-year old Ren. Anju is new entirely, as is this new 21-year-old Ren. Hanyuu may or may not have seen sketches of Elda's son and his wife before, but they're there too. ]

[oyashiromama]

[...Such a big family. Hanyuu- ...she hates that jealousy, piling up again, so she squashes it down. Elda lost her husband. There's nothing to be jealous of. She just wishes...

...

Hanyuu can't quite smile, but she touches the drawing, gently.] What's the newest little one's name?

[matchbreaker]

Anju. [ She smiles, despite how the name is a little strange on her lips ] My son and his wife are keeping the old family name, but it seems they decided to give their children more Japanese names so that they might adapt to the new environment. Anju and Karin are even going by "Maaka Karin" and "Maaka Anju" in school.

[ She's eager to talk about herself, and this subject. She's... incredibly thankful for this life. ]

[oyashiromama]

Aah... [It fills her with this warmth in her stomach.] That should help them so much. They can try to fit in.

...I'm very glad you have so much to go back to, Elda.

[matchbreaker]

I do. I really do.

[ And she's do glad. But she... she reaches her hands out now, to try and take Hanyuu's in her own. ]

Hanyuu, you really should come with me.

[oyashiromama]

[...Ah. Hanyuu's still.]

I... I told you before, Elda. I can't.