The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.

[kingshaming]

[After the trial, Xander does what he does best. What always blanks his mind when training is not an option:

He organizes.

The hot food for lunch is out still, and while he feels far from hungry, he knows they all SHOULD eat. Everyone wanders off to take care of their own grief, and he lets them for now- and instead busies himself at the espresso bar. There's something specific he wants to do.

Later, under each door, and with the same thing written on the white board he had dragged out for meetings:]

There is hot food and tea in the cafeteria, and while I have no stomach for food it is there for those that can.

While it is tempting to be alone right now, if you wish company I shall be there until evening. Now may be a good time to compare new information while it is fresh.

If not, please stay well.

Xander

[And as promised there is fresh tea. Green tea in fact, though it lacks the milk Chitanda made- but basic tea he can manage at least]

Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

It's terrible when it happens, Rukia-chan. I don't know anyone who would have someone thrown out an airlock, even if we've had to deal with some awful people back home.

[yukionna]

[ Oh good this isn't something that happens regularly in SPACE FUTURE. She was a little wary about that. ]

...my issue is that it wasn't an execution. Executions are swift and humane.

[ She may have first hand experience in that department. ]

[ratherdoweddings]

They wanted to horrify us as much as punish him, or more. We already knew that they don't really see staying here forever as an option, otherwise they wouldn't be giving out motives.

[yukionna]

It's still...a lot crueler than I expected. Although I suppose I'm the foolish one here, given how they've acted so far. White seems to think this is entertainment.

[ratherdoweddings]

I don't really know what he thinks, aside from getting mad when Shadow-kun tries to provoke him. He hates us enough to want us to die, but it seems like just a job.

[yukionna]

I have my doubts. The amount of glee and pleasure he seemed to take out of telling us we'd be forced to kill each other was...unsettling.

[ratherdoweddings]

And I thought executives and the military were hard to deal with.