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

[matchbreaker]

What do you expect then? Or want?

[ She said, still sort of... playing with... her fingers...

This is normal ]

[elepe]

[...you know, she...has to think about that for a moment.]

...I would honestly love a planetarium of some kind. Something that could possibly replicate what the night sky looks like.

[They haven't seen the outside in so long...she kind of misses it.]

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh-- Oh!! ] That sounds great! Christ girl, that's way better than anything I'd think of!

[elepe]

Doesn't it just? [Lusamine sighs, dreamily.] They're always so beautiful to look at. Especially if you know of a nice quiet place, so the light pollution doesn't get in the way.

[matchbreaker]

Mm, mmm! The stars, the moon, and everything else, like shooting stars you see sometimes! It's gorgeous! You could even say it' a birthright for vampires!

[elepe]

Beautiful, and picturesque...really, the Wordsmith depriving us of such a thing is a sin. An incredibly cruel sin.

[matchbreaker]

I don't mind not seeing the sun. I can't do that anyway. [ She sighs ] but missing the stars is cruel.