i feel the love, and i feel it burn, down this river every turn

[oyashiromama]

[The trial, as usual, was taxing. It's for different reasons every week, but what it all comes down to is there are fewer of them than there were, and that keeps on happening. The note comes, as it always does, earlier than last week, but still with some delay. There's a note slipped under everyone's door. ...One under Gold's door because of course Silver will be staying there, she knows.]

Please come to the dining room, if you would like not to be alone. There will be food, and there will be some cards and board games if you need a distraction.

- Hanyuu & Elda

[True to that, there are a variety of foods. It's nothing too fancy. Rice, grilled fish, eggs in various styles. ...No creampuffs this time, it seems Hanyuu thought that would be a little in poor taste. Also a bunch of fries? ...Really spicy fries, like incredibly so.

On a far table, board games brought from the games room have been left out, along with many decks of cards.]

Comments

hallways

[ravagers]

[ ...! She's a little surprised but she takes the cocoa anyway.

(her eyes are kind of red, too.) ]

Thanks, Leader...

[acherontiastyx]

Hey, it's no problem. Everyone has a bad time on these days, and some get it worse than others.

[he's not even gonna correct that to "boss," because it's not the time.]

[ravagers]

[ it'll occur to her later and she'll apologize ]

Yeah...

[ She sips at it and nods. ]

It's good. Really good. Put anything special in here?

[acherontiastyx]

I might've fudged with a the sugar to chocolate ratio a little bit, but other than that it's just... you know, how I've been making it.

...

Nice to know that I keep getting better, though. I kind of sucked at it when I first got here.

[ravagers]

Well... practice makes perfect, you know? And more sugar isn't a bad thing.

[ ... unless you're sportacus. ]

D'you make hot cocoa for your team back home?

[acherontiastyx]

Nah, I'd usually just make it for myself. We don't... exactly have access to it all day, every day. The good stuff is a little expensive.

[ravagers]

Oh.

[ She nods. ]

So having it so often like this is pretty amazing, huh?

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah, it's actually pretty great. A lot of this stuff would be kinda alright if... you know, it weren't for the everything else.