We're Still Here, We Still Have Each Other

[induality]

[It takes Fukawa some time to pull herself together but when she does-- she moves with a purpose. Everyone will find a note in practiced writing:]

Though all we've be through today was awful, and you might not want to face it-- you're not facing it alone. There will be food and drink in the VIP Lounge. And company. Whatever your feelings are now, it's okay. I won't tell you want to think or how to feel. But you don't have to carry it alone.

- Touko Lucis Caelum

[True to her word, she worked hard to make snacks and light warm foods for everyone as well as drinks-- alcoholic and otherwise. Everyone is welcome. She even stops by the information desk to extend an invitation to SIS.]

Comments

[daughterofthemark]

[Sir Canaan hasn't seen Kipsie in days! FRIENDSHIP!

Arianna wishes it was so simple on her end.]

...would that there was something I could say to make this better.

[tokencanadian]

... I think I should be the one trying to make this better. After all, it was me that got everyone into a panic.

[Her fingers lightly drum against the bar, putting together a tune.]

It was me that got Nari to confess.

[daughterofthemark]

Da...

Pyrrha, you've done so much already. You've been there for us--for me, especially, week after week.

[tokencanadian]

[...She looks over at Kipsie, moving to slowly pick her up, hands cupping the bird.]

Thank you, Arianna... Everything I've been doing, all the things I've said, I meant all of it. I think that much of... all of you, of everyone. I want to see that you're all safe.

[daughterofthemark]

[Sir Canaan watches this process carefully, making sure she's okay. Pigeons gotta look out for each other.]

I know. I feel the same way--I want everyone to be safe. Not only because that is how it should be. Because we are a family.

[tokencanadian]

[Kipsie is fine, she's even going to take a little snooze from the looks of it. She's had a long day.]

We're... [She allows herself a small laugh.] That's right, Arianna, we're all family. Whether some of us like it or not.

[She's honestly unsure how Nari felt about it at the end. How much of that was just bluster?]

You've come very far, so far from when we first met here in the mall. I'm proud of you, Arianna- you've done just as much for everyone here as I have.

[daughterofthemark]

[If it helps, Arianna thinks it was bullshit! ...it would be more likely to help if she actually said it at some point, probably.]

Thank you, Pyrrha. It... hardly seems enough, but... I must remind myself how much worse it could have been.

[Everyone in this room is alive.]

[tokencanadian]

[There's enough people left to fit into just this room, with some space to spare. It worries, Pyrrha... but there's hope as well.]

It could always be worse... but we should think about how we should make things better, instead of talking about how bad things have gotten.

Right now, we need to stay strong. And... if I can do it, then everyone else can too.

[daughterofthemark]

If... we can do it.

[They'll support each other however they need to.]

All of us will.

[tokencanadian]

...We will. Working together, as a team.

But for now, let's try to stay calm... I'm sure tomorrow will bring something.

[It's a sunday, after all.]

[daughterofthemark]

What do you suppose our memories will be this time? Meeting each other, perhaps?

[tokencanadian]

I hope it's a nice memory. So we can only hope it's that.

We all had to meet each other somehow.

[daughterofthemark]

Do you suppose we had a secret code?

[...I refuse to dignify this line of reasoning with an explanation.]

[tokencanadian]

[Looks at her.

Thinks very seriously on the matter.]

Well... My friends, Nora and Ren, once used the sound a sloth makes as a kind of secret code.

[daughterofthemark]

Hm!

[That does seem like a plausible secret signal!]

Then, if any of us would have recognized the sound of a sloth...

[tokencanadian]

Well, it's something like- [and here comes Pyrrha's best imitation of Nora's imitation of a sloth's call.




At no point does she realize she should be mourning her girlfriend and father's deaths.]

[daughterofthemark]

[I mean. That sounds like a good thing to not realize for a while.]

I see!

[So here, have Arianna's imitation of Pyrrha's imitation of Nora's imitation of a sloth.

It's decent based on the information she has, but at this point probably no sloth in the multiverse would recognize it.]

[tokencanadian]

[Look at these two girls, just honking at the bar.]

Yes, I... [Pffff, no, she's gotta laugh now.] I think that was it...!

[daughterofthemark]

[Oh no, now she's going to start giggling.]

I believe I--hehe--can do better...

[She tries, but just starts laughing.]

[tokencanadian]

[She laughs, and laughs, and she's still smiling, but why does her face feel wet?

Oh, it's tears.</small.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Oh no wait actually that's to be expected isn't it?

She's getting a hug now.]