now that you are not around, my world fades to a dull, lifeless grey

[ratherdoweddings]

[Rukia will come around to everyone's rooms later, with bunny-laden notes inviting them up to the diner. When they arrive, they'll find that one of the tables in the back has been covered over with a length of fabric from the sewing room and is serving as a makeshift altar, with rosemary and, for some reason, a bottle of whiskey sitting on it alongside cutesy drawings of all the dead thus far. (Just like last time, Seth gets a spiteful no symbol across his face.)

Yurika's there too, and she speaks first:]

Thank you. I... I'm sorry for suspecting some of you a little. I was worried no matter what happened, and I knew it would be hard, but you were all innocent. If anybody wants to talk, we can.

Comments

[tasteslikesurvival]

That's actually not a bad idea! Though, dunno if they'd have something like that.

[bylight]

They have books all about space. Plants in space would be something they would need a book about. It makes sense.

[tasteslikesurvival]

I recognized a few of them. We had them back in the school but the others, I dunno. Rii-san would know more since she gardened. A book on plants would be helpful, though. If they wanted to keep them alive.

[bylight]

Then the next time I'm in the library I'll see if I can find something... unless Thomasin might know. She's from the past, right? They wouldn't have had modern medicines.

[tasteslikesurvival]

That's right--she probably knows something about that!

[bylight]

If you see her before I do, don't hesitate to ask.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right. Right, I should do that.

[bylight]

If she wants to know, tell her it's in case modern medicine fails us.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right! That's a good excuse.

[bylight]

Make sure to take notes if she does have any answers.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right. I'll make sure to, Lightning.

[bylight]

[She nods, reaching over to pat her head.]

For now go wash it out. Warm water with salt. Alright?

[tasteslikesurvival]

Salt? Salt will help?

[...Dammit, she could have been doing that all along! Though she blushes from the headpat.]

[bylight]

[........]

Saline is salt water.

[tasteslikesurvival]

I-I knew that! I just didn't think of it alone.

[...]

Okay, yeah, you're right. I... I just didn't think of adding the salt to warm water.

[bylight]

[Oh daughter, why must you be such a derp.]

It's alright. Simple solutions are sometimes the hardest to think of.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Yeah. Back at the school we were lucky to have peroxide so I didn't think of it.

[Look, when you have actual antiseptic solution why think of saline?]

[bylight]

[For survival things, you always remember saline. It can help with quite a few things.]

This place is sure making us learn how to do without those things.

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Alas, the only true survival training she had formally was a quick class on CPR and some handbooks from the library.]

It is. We don't even have bandages here.

[bylight]

[Mom can teach you if you ask.]

And using bed sheets doesn't sit right with me, but we have to make due.

[tasteslikesurvival]

I've been using them since we got here.

[Help me, Mom. Teach me to be an independent woman.]

[bylight]

Have you at least been washing them between uses?

[All the women, who are independent
Throw your hands up at me!

She'll teach you.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Yeah, that and I sleep without sheets on my bed. I've slept in a sleeping bag for months a bed without sheets isn't going to hurt me. So I turned all of them into bandages and wash them between uses.

[Thank you mom. You're a good mom.]

[bylight]

I haven't slept in a good bed for a long time before this place. A sleeping bag would have been nice. [Slept on the dirt a lot or just didn't sleep.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

Hah... yeah, I bet it would have been. We were pretty lucky, honestly.