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

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[iaspis]

I wasn't expecting anyone else in here.

[She seems surprised that Lusamine's Pokemon aren't around.]

I haven't been in here since...

It's been a while.

[elepe]

[Lusamine perks a bit when she sees Jasper. It seems the feeling is mutual, at the very least, but...]

It has bad memories associated with it, I imagine.

[After what happened...]

It seems like a waste, not to use it after such events. It's a wonderful stress reliever--do your kind have something similar?

[iaspis]

Yes, would imagine many of us avoid this room now.

[Even if it's for different reasons.]

I know some Gems collect things. It's possible to store them, in a "room", I guess you could call it. Something only you can really access. A sort of physical metaphysical plane, where you can retreat to. It might not be exactly the same thing, but it's what I think of.

[elepe]

...Perhaps like a world of daydreams? Or simply an ideal world, in ones mind.

[That's the way it sounds to her, at least.]

Is this simply a matter of the gem's power, whether they have one of these rooms? Or could anyone try to make one?

[iaspis]

Anyone could make one.

I have one, but I can't access it here. It's... complicated to explain, but it's unsettling.

[elepe]

[...Lusamine pauses a bit, swimming up closer to Jasper.]

It would be a way to avoid what is happening here, wouldn't it? ...Did you try, when Mr. Kimbley passed?

[All things considering...she wouldn't blame her, really.]

[iaspis]

...No. I tried much earlier.

[elepe]

[...oh.]

...How regrettable. I imagine such a thing would offer much needed reprieve, but of course the Wordsmith would not allow such things...