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Jane Crocker ([personal profile] cyan_maid) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-03-18 07:28 pm
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Onward, Into Darkness

[Around dinnertime, when everyone has gone to their rooms and had their time to think about the day, a note is slipped underneath your door. It reads:

I've made soup for everyone tonight.
It would be a kindness if you were to come to the cafeteria and partake.
- Jane


And, true to the letter, when you enter the cafeteria, you're hit with the distinct smell of pumpkin. There's a large covered pot on one of the tables filled to the brim with a sweet pumpkin soup full of carrots and sweet potatoes, a ladle beside the pot, and a stack of bowls and spoons. There's even enough cutlery for Bolton and Jamie to come, if they want to show up - Jane is, if anything, an excellent host. Please help yourself! There's plenty more! is on a folded bit of paper beside the pot, but where is Jane?

Well, the kitchen door is propped open, and she's very diligently working on scraping out the remains of a huge, tasty pumpkin and setting the seeds aside. She sniffs every once in a while, and her face is a blotchy mess, but she's still going. Having something to do seems to keep her from diving too deeply into despair.

Just...don't let her, or yourselves, be distracted forever.]
ratherdoweddings: (it teaches us not to)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[knock knock]

Jane-chan...?
ratherdoweddings: (has very little value)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
It was good. Do you need help? I might not know a lot about cooking, but anyone should be able to clean up, right?
ratherdoweddings: (to the earth)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm so sorry, Jane-chan!

[Yurika steadies herself with a hand on the countertop.]

I had that whistle sent to Kurumi-chan to keep her safe, I knew she had a tendency to lash out, she must have been so scared and I couldn't help any of them! Lightning-san said I needed to be the heart of this group, but I'm scared and I can't let them know it! I'm sorry... I never even told Kurumi-chan she was right...
ratherdoweddings: (like with the power of love)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
...[sniff] I'm sorry, Jane-chan. I promised Lightning-san to keep going, and here I am losing it. I-- thank you. ...I am scared. If that's okay.
ratherdoweddings: (if you know your own worth)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Yurika hugs Jane tightly and sniffles, breathing in and out.]

You're right. Even if we've had a lot of fun here, the whole time, we've been terrified with good reason. There are people out there running our lives in here, and there's a mystery we have to solve together. Every one of us has problems individually, but that's why we need to work through them as a group, right?
ratherdoweddings: (it teaches us that all things)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
You're not making anyone do anything. We're going to be free together, and we'll be somewhere that none of this ever touches someday, no matter how long that takes.
ratherdoweddings: (if you're the main character)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
That's exactly why it matters. We're still people, no matter what they've done to us.
ratherdoweddings: (but i don't have)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm glad you're here, Jane-chan. Thank you. You've always done your best for everyone.
ratherdoweddings: (and tentacles)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good thing. You've helped us a lot, every day, reminding us to keep on going.
ratherdoweddings: (is barely making sense)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You're kind, you're determined, and you've never lost sight of how things should be. This is a horrible place and it is wrecking us, and if we get used to that like we've had to just to live, there's the risk of just accepting it. But you know things should be different. Remember when I said that some of us may be more experienced with fighting, but we're fighting for people like you?
ratherdoweddings: (that although sometimes this is so)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, and I'm proud of you. But being in one weird and terrifying situation after another and still coming out as much of a normal person as you can be, as much yourself as you can be, is really encouraging.
ratherdoweddings: (they're getting harder to believe)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a good kid, Jane-chan. I'm glad you're around, but you deserve better.
ratherdoweddings: (don't ever think you're alone)

[personal profile] ratherdoweddings 2017-03-19 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not alone, and I won't leave you alone. I promised to hold us together, and I will, okay?

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