Love of mine, someday you will die, but I'll be close behind

[feistytrader]

Please join us in the greenhouse should you feel able or need company. There will be food and comfort. None of us should be alone right now.

-Hanyuu, Jasper, and Silver

[That's the note that gets slid under everyone's doors after such a somber and saddening trial; it's not like it's going to be a big ordeal anymore given how few of them there are, but that doesn't mean that they should spend it alone.

The location of their setup is the greenhouse! ...The greenhouse has had a new addition; there is a massive blanket fort set up using an absurd amount of rope, blankets, and duct tape. The blankets span across three trees to make a considerable amount of space roughly shaped like a triangle for them to hang out under. Under the fort is a small pile of scissors taken from the sewing and art rooms. Next to them are a couple of flower crowns. They're relatively simple and don't involve many different flowers, but they're good examples of what the pile of scissors are there for.

There's also food, of course; a blanket is laid out on the floor with a large set of plates, a massive amount of eggs and rice, some of Elda's spicy fries, and... Sandwiches. Jasper's made everyone sandwiches, and the sandwiches are absolutely absurd in size due to how many cold cuts she's stacked into them. But don't worry! They aren't all meat. There's a lot of mustard, too. Luckily, they're still of a reasonably edible size.]

Comments

[elepe]

[Makes perfect sense, honestly, it's the same with her and her dead tyrant boyfriend so]

I'm glad. You make this place bearable, you know.

[matchbreaker]

[ Don't let her get too smug now. ]


... Lusamine, did you try to open your heart this week, as I asked of you?

[elepe]

...I did. I had more of a focus on it earlier in the week, due to the incentive, but...

I spoke with Watanuki some on Sunday. Silver came by my room earlir and did my hair, as well. Guzma and I played a game from the Kalos region with our Pokemon. I spoke to Hanyuu in the greenhouse, even if it started as a worry she was going to break rule 3. And I tried to teach Mikazuki how to swim.

[It's better than what she did last week, at least.]

And...I think I am going to apologize to Estellise, for my actions. I have not been very fair to her.

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda's aware that there's a lot of hypocrisy in her asking that much of Lusamine. Elda Marker's heart had to be painstakingly pried open over the days and weeks until now through the effort of numerous people. But all the same...

She's glad. ]

You did tell then, Lusamine. As well as any might expect.

[ She said, reaching her arm around to pat her on the back ]

And if you think that sounds like a good idea, go for it! Especially after today.

[elepe]

[In that case at least, Lusamine pulls out a note and gestures Mismagius over, giving her the note, and her Poke Ball. Looks like she had it prepared.]

Mismagius, be a dear and visit room 29. Estellise lives there.

[She goes off, then, and with that taken care of...

Lusamine...kind of pauses a bit, pulling Elda closer.]

...I suppose I did, but I...

[There's...still worries. A lot of worries.]

...Never mind.

[matchbreaker]

[ Mmm. ]

... Nothing you could say could be as dark as my admission, or the thoughts we all have. Tell me, if you like.

[ But if she would rather it go unsaid that's fine to. Elda doesn't seem to be pushing one way or other thing, but she was pulled in so like? Of course she should say something.

... Also nice use of ghost. ]

[elepe]

...Do you think Mr. Munechika's attempt was enough to save them?

[It's not a nice question, and she knows that. But all the same, it's eating at her. A lot.]

[matchbreaker]

[ there's a lot of potential answers here, all of which have different degrees of truth to them. While all whirl in the head of the vampire what comes out is the most honest one, because Lusamine deserves that much, ]

I don't know. Like I said, he told me it was to us to assume if action or victory would be what was necessary.

[elepe]

[...She hates the Wordsmith and his non-specific answers. Lusamine...growls a little bit, before shaking her head.]

...Very well, then.

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . ]

However. [ She- ] I do not believe this is the end.

[ She- ] ... Though I have no basis for that belief.

[elepe]

...If he's gone and destroyed their spirits, what more can we do? It's a fool's errand. There's nothing left.

[She, of all people, would know.]

[matchbreaker]

[ She... laughs a little at that, shaking her head. She just said she has no basis for that belief. To be asked to explain it? she can do nothing more than shrug and shake her head. Well, that and: ]

Let's make a flower crown for each other, for now. I'll make yours of pink roses, it'll work well with your hair.

[elepe]

[...it made enough sense to her, but she sighs. There's no point.]

...Very well. Perhaps I should see if I can find some lily of the valley...

[matchbreaker]

[ See, this is better than dwelling on all that, at least for now. They can both make little crowns and laugh at it even, maybe.

Elda's smile, under this blanket fort, is deeply loving when she looks back to Lusamine before going to find some flowers. ]

[elepe]

[The flowers are easy enough to find, at least--those little flowers are cute and tiny, and they'll make for interesting crowns, at least!

...Even if the mood is somber, she can at least put her focus into her work and make something pretty. Elda deserves it.]