Week 5

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Week 5

[It's been five weeks (since you looked at me) and with the deaths of Shadow and Rukia, the group that was initially 20 strong has dwindled down to ten. Ten people in the span of a month and, even with the Overseers seeming increase in empathy for the remaining Champions, there is no end in sight for the Champion Excellence Program.

And again at 7 am on Sunday the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call there is no new floor announcement this week.

And again the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 5, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[refusedtoleave]

[Wow, that's actually worse than hers.]

I suppose I should explain my behavior then...

[She doesn't sound happy about it and hanging her head.]

[kingshaming]

If you feel like you can.

[Knowing what happened to her daughter... Xander fears what much more information could do to her]

[refusedtoleave]

...It was about my birth family...

[It's not the secret they threatened her with, but it's still hard to admit.]

[kingshaming]

[He frowns, that blank look breaking for something more like sympathy. Family. It always comes back to family]

Take your time.

[refusedtoleave]

[She's already started, she just has to finish.]

Times were tough after the war. And my Father- My birth one. He had to get multiple jobs, sell off land, seal off rooms... One day my husband's Father offered to forget the debt, in exchange...

[She doesn't have to finish does she?]

[kingshaming]

Natsuhi... please, that's enough.

[He actually does get up and sit with her. Such things weren't uncommon in royal courts- arranged marriages at best, selling of children to older spouses at worst. Not even getting into things that happened in the aftermath of conquest. She doesn't need to go into detail]

[refusedtoleave]

[She appreciates it, in a way. Makes it feel less like she's telling the world. The sympathy even earns him a hollow laugh.]

It's funny... In one sentence, you've shown more understanding than any of my husband's siblings.

[kingshaming]

Well, excuse my rudeness towards your kin, but they sound like resounding pricks.

[refusedtoleave]

[There's a small smile. Literally the first time someone has defended her from them, even her husband would scold her for defending herself.]

...I'm used to them by now. Remember my injuries when I got here? They were from one of his younger sisters, the elder of the two, Eva.

[Do you remember her profile?] That was the last thing I remembered.