FINAL WEEK

[strangerpeople]

FINAL WEEK

[Well. What else can be said? The Little Courtesy is over. You have all survived. You are now going to your final destination-with invitations to boot. And Charlotte will be getting that private audience, as promised.

But it's not over. Everyone knows it. Confrontation is inevitable. The question is what, exactly, will happen when that confrontation happens-or if anyone will in fact be able to go with Charlotte when it happens. But you've gone this far. There's no turning back. There has to be a way.

Nothing has been certain, or simple. Whatever happens will be no different from the horrors of the Little Courtesy. Perhaps the saying might still hold. Will all be well? Will it?

It must. God help everyone if it isn't.

Seven is the Number, but there are nine strangers left in this place.]

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[biddentodance]

[He reads the letter quietly....and then he'll. Put on that sweater. And then just awkwardly look at the others.]

Uh....anyone want a scone?

[charmingheroine]

[Why is he so blasted cute, why why why why why why - he's Towa's, not hers, why is he like this?

Naturally Charlotte doesn't show that internal flailing outwardly, but she does smile.]

Only if you eat at least one too. It's not fair to take food that was gifted to someone else if they're not eating it.

[biddentodance]

Plan on it, just get to share this time. Have probably had at least a hundred of these since we left Menahoven.

[He isn't even sure if he's exaggerating, or underestimating.]

[charmingheroine]

So you weren't starving... I'm glad.

[biddentodance]

Always eaten a lot. Been holding back a bit, since I'm not sure how well-stocked the train is...

[Considering the monstrous appetite he showed up until recently... He hasn't really been eating, since the bomb, but that's beside the point.]

[charmingheroine]

You always ate like you were famished - that was holding back? From the way these showed up, though, I'm guessing you didn't have a supply hidden to break into the past few days. Am I wrong?

[biddentodance]

[Minato is a pretty small guy, too. Where does it all go? It is a mystery.]

Yeah...probably don't want to see me go all-out.

You're right. Last got some...two weeks ago?

[charmingheroine]

[He hasn't got Death stuck in him now, so he can't say he's eating for two....]

So then you haven't been just... eating in your room, you haven't been - I swear if you and Jonathan meet I'm just going to go gray-haired all at once. Preemptively.

[biddentodance]

Ah?

[It is unclear how seriously Minato is taking this.]

Will stay away, when you rescue him.

[charmingheroine]

What? I - I was joking. Assuming that's possible, I know he'll want to meet you.

[Just in case he really is being serious, she'd better be clear, right?]

[biddentodance]

[A smile. It is still unclear.]

Look forward to it, then. Pretty sure they're all alive, have....have reason to believe that much.

[Even if he still doesn't know if they even have anyone of his...]

[charmingheroine]

[She'd engage with what she suspects is teasing a bit more, but there's another issue on the table now.]

One of the ghosts said something that made me hope, but... I don't even know if that was real, what do you know?

[biddentodance]

Know Auntie did what she could to get....whoever they were keeping, for me, still don't know... Auntie was arranging to have them released. Don't know why she'd do that if she suspected there weren't people to release.

[If, by some chance, he isn't the only person left from his world...his people are safe. But he still has no idea if there even was anyone, in that video.]