Week 3

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[Four people dead now - six, if you include the crew. Things have been a little rough on the Starfield Penitentiary this week. Blaze Dudely doesn't make a public reappearance during the weekend, so you've got a few days to yourselves to recover, though he's probably still sticking to his office hours if you really feel like going to see him. On Sunday morning, you may find that you're recovering a a few other things as well - both strange dreams and some new items.

In addition, there's a new set of doors at the end of the corridor, by that empty space where you'd been having your fight club. Looks like you've got a new wing to explore.]



Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( ooc: Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 2, submit your memory regains, and put in your benefactor threads! ))

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[ebonyknight]

So it was a pleasant one.

[...She sounds almost jealous at that. Were these just dreams, after all? She wasn't sure.]

[tokencanadian]

It was, very nice to have a dream about my friends for once. [Then again, it just makes her miss them that much more. What an awful situation they're in here...]

...I'm sorry, but, is something wrong?

[ebonyknight]

[She reaches out to touch the glass with a sigh.]

I saw--[My doll. A person. Apollo hesitates for a moment before deciding,]--a young girl almost throw herself to an enraged Primal Beast for my sake. For doing something I had ordered her to do.

[tokencanadian]

What? [Well, from what she had told Pyrrha about Primal Beasts, this was worthy of stunned confusion.]

What-- I don't understand... Is she okay? Did you see if...?

[What happened.]

[ebonyknight]

I saved her and the crew of skyfarers I was with managed to settle Yggdrasil down.

[There was a pause to her voice. That should have been good news but she shook her head.]

My question is why she would feel that much regret... She shouldn't have been able to feel anything at all.

[tokencanadian]

[She doesn't know the people Apollo is talking about, but that doesn't mean she can't sigh with relief at the news.

But then...]

I don't understand. Why couldn't she feel things? If she was feeling that much regret, that's definitely a problem.

[ebonyknight]

How can an empty vessel--

[She shuts herself off quickly, turning her gaze to the stars.] It was the first time in a decade that I saw her show such emotion. It... shouldn't have been possible.

[How could I have missed it?]

[tokencanadian]

An empty...? [She can't really believe what she's hearing. So whil Apollo chooses to look out at the stars, Pyrrha's gaze is absolutely trained on the older woman.]

Apollo... I... I don't understand.

[She reaches out, somewhat hesitant, to put her hand on the woman's shoulder.]

[ebonyknight]

['Apollo'. There was a flinch even within that armor as her shoulders sag just a little. It was the first time she spoke of Orchis truly in the prison but... she had opened herself up that much already.]

A decade ago, when we were both children a Primal Beast attacked her family. She was the only survivor but it had torn her soul away from her body. No memories, no personality.

[There was a bitterness to her words as her shoulders tense.] Apparently the skyfarers had noticed some sort of personality in the girl but how could it have taken a decade for her to show that side to someone she was around constantly?

[tokencanadian]

What? [It's quiet when she says it. And even through Apollo's armor, she could see the way the woman was just struggling to speak what was on her mind.

Families being lost to monster attacks were, sadly, not something new to Pyrrha's ears. Life was precarious in numerous places of Remnant.
But hearing this...]

Apollo, I'm... so sorry. I had no idea. Your friend, was she...?

[ebonyknight]

Yes. We had been friends for many years before that happened.

[That... that is enough. Right? No one else in the prison knew about her, apart from being a 'doll'.] I'm the one of the handful that knew she didn't die in that attack.

[tokencanadian]

She didn't. [She gets that part. But the part she's having a trouble understanding is probably the hardest part for both of them.]

But she did... as a vessel?

[ebonyknight]

It was as if she became a doll. [Another long sigh--] She hadn't aged a single day since then, either. We both are twenty-four but you wouldn't guess it by looking at her.

[tokencanadian]

That's...

[She's speechless.]

[ebonyknight]

I did say I had a reason why I wanted to go to other skydoms.

[tokencanadian]

[that hits her enough to make her gasp.]

Apollo, I'm... so sorry... I can't even imagine how that would feel.

[Getting such a responsibility thrust upon her.]

[ebonyknight]

[Have a gauntlet on your shoulder, Pyyrha.]

Don't be.

[She doesn't want or need your sympathy! She doesn't have a heart.]

[tokencanadian]

But it might be serious. [She will!! you cant stop her from having sympathy!!]

Apollo, if there's anything else you want to talk about, I'm here. I can... try to help.

[Or at least make things better.]

[ebonyknight]

[...

...

She doesn't say anything but then:]

Aren't you going to ask what I did for her to be so upset?

[tokencanadian]

....Is it alright if I do?

[ebonyknight]

As far as I know, yes. I don't remember how we had gotten to the point but I do remember Yggdrasil.

[Well, might as well admit it.]

Yggdrasil is the Primal Beast of the Lumacie Islands. Her power keeps the great forests on that island thriving and had been asleep for quite some time. Until I forced Orchis to wake her up. The twisted creature I saw in my dreams was clearly Yggdrasil but corrupted into an even more powerful form. Orchis seemed to have been blaming herself for waking up the beast in the first place.

[Yet how could someone emotionless feel sorrow?]

[tokencanadian]

"Yggdrasil"... [It's an odd word on her tongue.]

...She must have felt awful in awakening such a dangerous monster.

[ebonyknight]

She felt more sympathy for the beast, upset that she--Yggdrasil--was angry and hurting.

[Yes. Definitely a 'she'. Rosetta wasn't here to enforce that but even that witch deserved some respect.]

[tokencanadian]

[She rubs her arm, contemplatively.]

They both must have been... going through so much. I feel so sorry for them.

[These beings she's never met. They deserved that much.]

[ebonyknight]

... You're not the only one.

[There's definitely regret in her voice now.]

I don't know why Orchis was blaming herself.

[When someone else was at fault.]