theairlock | week 4

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!week 4

week 4

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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Both, in a way. I was thinking about what she said.

Which part? She said an awful lot of things.

Most of them not worth hearing.

About Dame Mai. It seemed as though she that was how she justified to herself what she did.

A very weak justification, at that. It's truly incredible, the lengths some humans will go to convincing themselves that their actions are somehow just.

Nevertheless, she believed it was sufficient. If that could have been avoided...

Then what?

Then everything would have been fine?

At the very least, things would not have gone the way they did. Everything began when Dame Mai was treated so horribly as a child.

Indeed. And so one could track everything terrible that happens to a different source.

However, even if Mai Kawasumi had been alright... If she hadn't inadvertently caused the death of Mikaela... Do you truly think it would have prevented the second incident?

It could have! Nobody would have died yet! She would have had to be the first to kill!

Yes, it's very likely that's true. And of course it... would have been better, if we could have avoided all of that.

...But we did not.

[Not really the answer she was hoping for, but the answer she was hoping for was "well fortunately I've figured out a way to undo all this" so that wasn't exactly winnable.]

...I keep saying this will be the end.

There won't be an end until we are victorious. Until we have dealt with PAL.

You should focus on that, instead of regrets. [He looks down, at all the bodies.] ...Well, I know it's not as simple as that, of course. Losing people is... painful.

We will have to deal with him soon, before anything else of this nature can occur.

[...good luck with that]

We will do so as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

But in the meantime, it's important that we all stay strong. No one... [He lingers for a moment as he looks at Lee.] No one else can give in now. If we're not united, we have already lost.

Right. We must each do what we can to avert another incident.

Exactly. And we all have to work at this.

...Not that I think anyone here is as weak willed as that girl. But we mustn't be careless, either.

We must be on our guard for another "motive." Sir PAL may devise something more tempting next time.

I'm sure he will.

Honestly... I think it would help for us to do our best to think about what could convince us. If we prepare ourselves for any potential leverage he may try to manipulate us with... Well, at the very least, it won't take us by surprise.

[It might be a doomed attempt, but even that is still better than just sitting back and letting everything happen.]

That... may be difficult. I, for one, cannot see myself taking an innocent life for any reason. The closest I've come...

[...and she's looking at Mai now.]

...What is most important to you?

...Caledonia. My people are the reason for my existence.

A good choice.

[He might not have a kingdom, but he can relate, still. But...]

Then say you are offered a choice. The lives of everyone here... or the lives of your people? What would you do then?

...I have faith in my father's knights. If the people are attacked, they will be well protected.

They may not understand my decision if they are aware of it, but it would be better for them to think of me as foolish than to discover I was a murderer.

I'm glad you have such faith in them.

[He could point out the ease in which everyone here was taken. Their powers dampened. Everything the enemy has at their disposal.

But his goal isn't to back her into a corner. If she's that confident, then he may as well let her be.]

Hold onto that conviction. Your desire not to be a murderer. Right here and now, it's your greatest weapon.

[Yes, good, let her fool herself.]

What about you, Sir Heart?

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