trusthell | Week 3.

WEEK 3
Another week has passed; two more Survivors are gone. Pearl and Caren both had someone to fight for, someone worth killing for; perhaps it's for the best to hope that somehow they've found peace despite not being able to collect on the Kingmaker's incentive.

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. That doesn't mean the night passed easily, though - it seems another piece of your personal puzzle may have fallen into place while you slept...

Following that spiral staircase up to the second floor will reveal something strange; those stairs definitely lead far higher than you remember, up to a previously inaccessible third floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done.

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[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains!

The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

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It doesn't matter.

[It takes a bit before he responds - and even then his words and quiet, softer than usual even though Bruce is already soft-spoken in general. It's said more in a way like he's trying to convince himself more than an actual answer to Cherryblod, too.

(The question is something he asks himself every single day, every moment when his mind isn't occupied. But going on that line leads to thoughts he shouldn't entertain, and so he makes himself stop.)]

No, I suppose not.

[He knows that tone of voice. He knows it well enough not to press further on the subject.

There's nothing they can do about it now anyway.]

[Nothing at all... and Bruce hates that. What's the use of being called a 'genius' when he can't use it to help people so clearly in need for it?]

All we can do is to focus on the 'now'.

[Again, its really spoken more for himself than for Cherryblod. No matter what happens, they need to keep going--even though Bruce himself wants to stop more than anything else. But they can't stop, as much as that tears at him inside. They can't afford to stop.]

That's all you ever can do, really. There's no way to go back and undo anything, no matter how much you'd like to.

[...Similarly, Cherryblod's voice has taken on a far-off quality to it, as if he's talking about something else as well as their actual conversation.]

[Both of them certainly have a number of things to never talk about, huh.

...regardless, Bruce knows better than to have Cherryblod dwell on that, so he tries to move the conversation along.]

We'll find a way out soon. Then you can see your wife again.