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

[oyashiromama]

How...are you going to do that? You said, until you find him again, until...you find his spirit?

[When they're out of there...]

[foundfate]

Yeah. I mean, whatever's blocking our powers, it'll have to go away when we're not stuck here anymore.

Traveling to different worlds is possible. Yuuko knows how to do it. And ghosts are as solid as a living person to me. I need to take their souls back to their worlds. All of them.

[oyashiromama]

...It's a beautiful goal, Watanuki. I think...I think they would all like that.

[...mostly. Alani's world, it sounds... Hanyuu doesn't know how much of it left there would be, even in a spiritual form.]

I... I've some experience traveling between worlds too, obviously. I would... Should it come to pass, I wouldn't want to leave this...to rest solely on your shoulders.

[foundfate]

[Christo and Killia need to go to another world anyway, so Alani can go right along with them.]

The help would be nice. Herding around 14 souls isn't going to be easy, especially with all of them going to different places. Christo and Killia need to go to my world though, their world apparently doesn't have an afterlife. And I'm taking care of Varric's soul personally. Gold's too.

[The rest he is up for whoever handling them, so long as they get where they need to go. But those ones he needs to handle himself.]

[oyashiromama]

Yes, that... There'd be some trial and error to be done, especially-

[Wait.

Fourteen...]

You said... But there are fifteen of us fallen.

[foundfate]

Ah-

[He's not sure what to do about Kira. But instead of saying that, he gives Hanyuu a quick sheepish smile.]

S-sorry, I miscounted.

[oyashiromama]

[...Yeah, she knows otherwise. He's kind of the hand-loving elephant in the room but-

She gently shakes her head, her own weak smile rising to her face.]

It's been a long day. Don't worry about it.