theairlock | week 4

Entry tags:

!round 2,
!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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...No. They don't. [That smile came back, but now it was bitter and humorless.]

[All in thrall to darkness-]

[It didn't matter at all, did it? His actions here...the person he thought he was...none of it mattered.]

[Ardyn turned on his heel, shrugging his shoulders and moving to leave.]

You'll be better served looking after the others. You're good at that--better than I am.

[ Nope sorry. You turned your back, you are now getting a hug from behind, Dad. ]

...Well. I still care about you. No matter what you say.

...

[He froze in place, for a brief instant expecting the sensation of Lunafreya's vain attempt at healing--then remembered this was neither the oracle nor was it the ruined Altissia.]

[What was he doing?]

Clarith--

[ Sorry Ardyn, it was Mikaela who knew healing. She'll just bury her face in his back for a bit like this. ]

...Maybe it's too much to talk about right now. That's fine. ...But please don't push us all away. You may not believe it yet, but... I think... Where you go from here is what matters.

[ --And then she'll let go. ]

...Take your time. But I'm ready to listen. ...I... Was a terribly bitter person before. I wanted to either die or for my entire village to suffer. So I don't think there's much you could say to dissuade me from caring about you. ...So take as long as you need.

[None of us would have turned you away.]

[But that was different. What Lee had done surely hadn't even approached this level. This was something there was no recovering from.]

...I'll be fine, Clarith.

[Ardyn Lucis Caelum was beyond salvation. Lunafreya had proven that herself.]