The flower of evil pitifully scatters with brilliant color...

[desperateprayer]

[ After everyone leaves the Rose Ceremony, Clarith gets to work. With Nari's help, there's a few snacks set up, and then she delivers a message beneath everyone's doors. ]

Please meet up at the first floor rest area. I don't think people should be alone right now.

- Clarith

[ Takumi's includes a bit extra: "Especially you." Sure enough, there's a few snacks set up in the rest area, but otherwise just. Blankets and pillows set up so that people can pile in as they please. She's waiting, seeming a fair bit tired in more than one way, but... She doesn't want to leave people alone. ]

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[myocordial]

...No. No, I wouldn't go that far.

[He's a part of this and that's simply a fact. Forced by the circumstances, maybe, but here he is.]

But if I am entirely honest, I do feel... out of place, sometimes. [A lot.] I've never been among humans this much before. It's hard to forget all the differences.

[He's a dang good imitation of humanity, but not the real thing. Not at all.]

[goteachother]

You're not that different from any of us, y'know.

I mean... everyone's got differences from everyone else, different ways of thinking, of feeling, of handling those feelings.

No one wants you ta feel outta place. I know it's easier said than done but... if there's anything that'll make you feel more comfortable you just let us know, okay? [And... well she's kissing your cheek again Heart. She just can't seem to stop doing that to everyone.]

[myocordial]

More different than you might know.

[He wonders, suddenly, if this is what Chase feels like back home. The one Roidmude in a group of humans... What must that be like for him?]

You don't have to concern yourself with that, this isn't something anyone can really change. It simply is how it is. I realize I'm not the only one here who isn't human, of course, but I'm likely still the one most removed from humanity. Which is how it should be.

...I shouldn't have even brought this up. My apologies.

[goteachother]

How it should be? Why on earth would ya say that?

[She doesn't quite understand why he'd think like that... and she doesn't know how to make him feel more involved, more included.

Part of her wonders if she'd be able to tell, even if she had her powers. If he really is some sort of advanced machine would she even be able to read his mind?]

Don' apologize, honey. No reason to apologize just for talking with me, yeah? Does it matter what about?

[myocordial]

Still, it's perhaps not the time for a conversation like this...

[Even though, of course, the trial is the whole reason he's even thinking about this. He'd lowered his guard, gotten... used to the people here, in such a way that he almost forgot the reality of his situation. And then Lee, showing off the worst traits of humanity, helpfully gave him a wakeup call.

Still. He does consider himself an honest person.]

...The relationship between humans and Roidmudes is a difficult one. I only know of one Roidmude that has managed to find a place among humans and he has always been... different. Something like this... [He briefly glances around the room.] Well. It's unheard of.

[goteachother]

I could say the same thing about no-majs. I mean... we have laws forbidding wizarding folk from even talkin to 'em.

Somethin like this? [It's her turn to gesture to the room at large, smiling softly at him, trying to be encouraging.] Definitely unheard of.

But I wouldn' have it any other way.

When people are different there's always gonna be difficulties. 's just how we are. Things we don' know or understand? 's scary. Always will be. The way ya fix that is ta help people understand, make it less scary for 'em.

[myocordial]

You've... adjusted to it well. Very well, even. It's very impressive.

I have to admit I'm envious in some ways.

[She makes it seem so simple...]

...We're all one unit here. Tied together by the same circumstances, the same goal. And yet if those circumstances were different... If I had met anyone here outside this place, we would have been enemies. [Which isn't the case. That should be the important part, but...] It's hard to forget about that.

Especially when I consider what happens after this is all over.

[goteachother]

Why would we be enemies? There ain' no reason for it, is there?

[You can't judge all for the actions of the few, Heart.]

And when all this is over... I don't think anyone can really even guess at what's going to happen then.