week 6

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[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[serrata]

Mmhm.

... my little sister.

[daughterofthemark]

...

[Oh, no.

She takes her hand.]

[serrata]

[ That gets another tiny smile and a squeeze of the hand. ]

Her name was Ruu-chan. She would've liked to meet you, I think. All of you.

[daughterofthemark]

I would have liked to meet her as well. If she was at all like you...

[serrata]

She was actually a lot like you, Arianna-chan. Both of you were so bright in the same way. She was always smiling, she never had a bad word to say about anyone... she was a good girl.

[daughterofthemark]

[In a different context, Arianna would have been happy to hear this comparison.]

You loved each other very much.

isn't this icon like ten times more upsetting now

[serrata]

Yes.

[ There's no way of softening that and Yuuri has to stop speaking for a moment to swallow the lump in her throat. She'd expected talking about Ruu to be so much harder than this but it... feels like it's helping. Like always, getting the poison out is so much better than letting it fester. ]

I... looked after her a lot when we were both younger. I'd take her out on the weekends and we'd go for walks here and there together. Always just me and Ruu-chan.

monster

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna isn't sure if she should remind Yuuri that she doesn't have to tell her all this. But it seems to be helping.]

She was a very fortunate young girl, to have an older sister like that.

[serrata]

I was more lucky to have her, I think. She was so... she was a lot like--

[ She catches herself, then, only now realizing what what she's doing is talking in circles. She gives a shaky laugh and slowly covers her face with one hand. ]

... I'm sorry. I'm just chasing my tail a bit, that's all.

[daughterofthemark]

[She shakes her head.]

It's all right. Say what you must.

[serrata]

No, no, I... going in circles like that isn't going to help anything. It's just all been going around in my head since Sunday.

[ She holds out her arms. C'mere, Arianna, someone needs a hug. ]

[daughterofthemark]

[Needs, and will receive.]

It may be some time before that ends.

[serrata]

... maybe.

[ She gives a little sigh, an exhalation that ruffles the top of Arianna's hair. ]

... Arianna-chan... what are you thinking of doing when you get out of here?

[daughterofthemark]

[...wow you know she hasn't even slightly considered this since week one.]

I suppose I will return to Caledonia. --no, High Lagaard, first, so I can ascertain the state of Ginnungagap.

[serrata]

What's your world like? I just realized... we haven't really talked all that much about each other's worlds, have we? Just that they exist.

[ not that there's... much else to tell about Yuuri's... ]

I'd like to hear about it.

[daughterofthemark]

It is less advanced than this, or... than the worlds of most people here, it seems. We have no "freezers" or "robots."

[That last part isn't quite true but she doesn't know that.]

But it is beautiful, and filled with good people.

[serrata]

... filled with people...

[ It sounds so bizarre. It was only a year ago that her own world was filled with people but now the idea of it sounds like a fantasy, a dream. ]

I'd like to go there, I think. To somewhere full of people. Somewhere loud and busy and happy.

[daughterofthemark]

You'd be welcome anytime. You, Sir Junpei, your friends...

[Arianna is trying not to sound super ridiculously contextually-inappropriately excited and she's... not doing very well at that.]

[serrata]

I can't promise it'll be our very first stop but we'll definitely come and see you. You'll probably have all sorts of visitors coming and going once we all find somewhere to settle.

[daughterofthemark]

Of course, I will have to visit you as well. Will you be returning to Sir Junpei's world?

[serrata]

I... I think we'll be visiting, but I'm not sure if we'll be staying.

[ "We" is a certainty though, apparently, even if their location isn't. ]

He said Church-san said we could go with him, back to his world... but I suppose a lot of it depends on what happens after I go back to my world to find everyone. Where they might end up wanting to go.

[daughterofthemark]

You'll have to take them on a tour, and show them everybody's homes.

...they may even be interested in living in Caledonia.

[Which would give Rii-san more reasons to visit and would therefore be a good thing.]

[serrata]

That sounds perfect. Everyone's been so kind and... I'm sure, wherever they ended up wanting to stay, there'd be a place for them.

[ But she goes quiet for a moment and her eyes are a little downcast. ]

... it's sad, though. Thinking of us all splitting up like that.

[daughterofthemark]

[...oh.]

Only a few short weeks ago, we were all strangers, and yet... were it not for my responsibilities at home...

[serrata]

We'll come and visit you all the time. I promise. In fact, eventually, you're going to be begging for us to leave you alone for a little while.

[ She doubts it very much, of course, but she has absolutely no intention of simply losing Arianna and the others once they all get out of here. ]