pick a god and pray

[garudynamic]

[Like the weeks before, once everyone has wandered off their separate ways, notes are posted to each room that still has a warm body in it. Only this time the writing is much messier then any other notice]

None of us feel like celebrating, but I think Yato would approve if we don't spend the night hiding out because of him
There's warmed up food in the Game Room if you're hungry. Might be best to not be alone tonight.

-Yosuke

[And as promised there's leftovers in the Game Room; and eventually fresh stuff as Tarrlok gets to work in the kitchen. Yosuke is there, trying to set something up on one of the shelves, but otherwise you are left to your own devices]

Comments

[cherryblooded]

It's not as though I've never seen death before, but I could use a break.

[isafraid]

No one should have to see it like this. So much of it in this much time? It feels a bit unthinkable.

[He sighs, letting a hand slip back to push some of that hair out of his face. Speedwagon is tired, Cherryblod. It's been a long day.

At least the game, mercifully, seems to be going in Speedwagon's favor.]

[cherryblooded]

[So it is!]

Even when I fought in the war, it wasn't this bad. Battles and murders are different things entirely.

[isafraid]

[Just about the only thing that is-Wait a second.]

You were in a war?

[cherryblooded]

A civil war. A little under two hundred years ago.

[isafraid]

... You weren't a soldier in it, were you?

[cherryblooded]

I was.

[Does he not look the type?]

[isafraid]

[...Speedwagon laughs, he's not sure why, it's just something that happens right now.]

Good on you! [...He sobers up quickly. Why isn't this card game going in his favor anymore?] I'm sorry, suppose I never thought that you were the kind of person that would be involved in that.

We were through with a war not too long ago in my world. A bloody vicious one at that.

[cherryblooded]

[It's not all that funny.]

Did you win?

[isafraid]

[Not at all.]

We managed somehow, can't exactly call it a win though. It was nearly a century ago though, so I wasn't living through it.

[cherryblooded]

I see... It's a little like that for our war, too. We didn't lose, but it's not as though the other side actually surrendered.

[isafraid]

Then it's exactly the same, like as not. [They kind of got their asses kicked, but now everything's square.]

But I guess that's just what living in the past does for ya. All my current news must be years behind everyone else's.

[cherryblooded]

If it makes you feel better, I don't know much about human society and news, either. So I'd be just as lost as you.

[isafraid]

...I guess it would, a little.

[Why is Cherryblod winning now. What is this.]

Sooner or later, I wager I'll have to play a round of catching up with this group. Can't really be like this forever, now can I?

[cherryblooded]

[Experience.]

Well, you could. It's not as though you have to know much about the future when you return home.

[isafraid]

[Dangit.]

...As long as we can return home, and there's a home to return to.

[cherryblooded]

There is. There has to be.

[It's all that keeps him going on some days.]