Initiative.

[trustwellness]

With your course of study officially completed, for better or worse, there isn't much left for you in the courtroom itself; the elevator will take you back down to the first floor, where you'll be left off – it won't take you any lower than that. But then again, perhaps it doesn't need to. Take some time to reorient yourself, to be grateful that you didn't die, to do whatever it is you need to do – however, if you return to the main part of the building, away from the dorms... Well. There's something waiting for you in the foyer.

Comments

[sportadork]

[...]

Why?

[trustwellness]

Why not?

[That's not...helpful, none of this is helpful, her lack of expression that isn't just weird smiling isn't helpful, her face is literally not helpful - ]

You guys seemed so sincere upstairs. You should be able to handle an~y~thing...

[sportadork]

... Why are you talking like that? [THIS IS UNCOMFORTABLE...]

Of course we meant everything! We are not liars-- what do you think we didn't mean?

[trustwellness]

You all agreed - so strongly! - that you're not here to stand on the backs of your friends. That you bear their sacrifices with you, that you'll carry on their hopes.

Did you mean that?

[oyashiromama]

[...Ah. She said that, so-]

Yes. I meant every word. I won't sacrifice them. We won't.

[trustwellness]

Good.

[sportadork]

[. . .]

Yes? [MAYBE. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION....]

[trustwellness]

[...Oh, honey.]

[matchbreaker]

Look sister, just spell it out.

[ Elda said, trying hard to look more at her than at any of the actual dead people ]

[trustwellness]

It only takes seven souls to make a miracle. Souls that are far purer than yours, unfortunately...far purer than any of yours...

But miracles are what I do... Miracles, wishes, things that you can't attain for yourself.

I'm not asking you to sacrifice them. If you want them back, if you really care about their lives and their hopes and their dreams...

I can preform a miracle with seven pure lives. I'm sure I could raise the dead for eight.

[sportadork]

... You want our lives for theirs?

[firstaid]

So... you'll... revive them if we in exchange give up our lives...

[Her voice shakes and her breathing becomes hitched...]

[iaspis]

What?!

[Oh my god.]

[elepe]

...Our lives...for theirs...

[...she...wanted to live together, with him. She wanted something happy like that. Maybe not something perfectly saccharine, but...

She's considering it.]

...That is the sole way, then?

[blackmass]

[...did he just roll his eyes oh my god]

[feistytrader]

[He freezes up for a moment. Every part of him says yes, do it, do it immediately.

But what has being in here taught him, if nothing else? He clenches his fists, shakes a little, and shouts-]

Absolutely not! We're all getting out of here! No one's getting left behind!

[oyashiromama]

[...]

And you expect...if we say...we all want to get out of here, that we want to push the blame on no one, that's impossible... Is that what I'm understanding...Noir, or Angra Mainyu, or whoever you are?

[acherontiastyx]

...

Oh.

[...all the evils of the world.]

And how would we make sure it went right, huh.

[matchbreaker]

Prove it.

That unscrupulous man [ Jerking her thumb at Kirei ] told me to take his promises for miracles on faith. Why should allow you the same benefit of the doubt?

[firstaid]

Of course I'll carry on their hopes! However, I won't sacrifice them if there is a way to save them!

[Calming down and finding resolve now, yeah!]

[trustwellness]

Good to know.

[iaspis]

What do you need me to do?

[trustwellness]

[Well.]

[acherontiastyx]

Hell. Fucking. Yes. I meant it 100 percent.

[trustwellness]

Well, if you're sure.