WEEK 6

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 6



[Fifteen X-Passes. You've finally done it. You can now go free. However, the price has been steep. Too steep.




True, you can leave. Anyone can, now. But simply leaving may be a bad idea. After all, who knows what else Zero has up its sleeve? Who knows what's outside of the HMHS Gigantic? How will they survive? How will they eat? And those are the easy questions that need to be answered. After all, the mystery of Zero, the mystery of Zack, the mystery of who is the cause of all of this and why-those things are also seemingly impossible to answer without some preparation. There's also the new area that's opened up that may yet yield more for the survivors to mull over.


Rushing is surely a bad idea. It's time to prepare. Take the time to get ready for whatever is outside. Stock up on supplies. Write what needs to be written. Say what needs to be said. Get ready for the possibility that whatever is out there, whatever the answers are-they will not be easy, and they will not be quick.


More than that, but-where are all these cuts coming from on your body? Hm. Maybe you keep bumping into things or scratching too hard. Did everyone save Roland get super clumsy or something all of a sudden?


Well. Maybe the answers to all that are just around the corner. So. Let's get ready. The end is near.


There are 8 9 strangers currently on this ship.



Wait. Nine?]

Comments

[pegasinister]

No... no it's... I do not deserve your kindness or being brought into your family. I...

[He clinches his teeth]

I lost El.

[Not Edelgard. Not his Lady]

I... I can not get her back. I've tried. I should not be alive. But... I want to be. I want this future you and Aoi keep offering me and I CAN NOT!

[exequte]

[She pauses at that outburst, no longer worried in the same way, but now, perhaps, in another.]

Hubert....

Why don't you think that you deserve to be happy?

I....

I think you do. I wish.... I wish I had some way to show it to you.

[pegasinister]

I have made myself into a monster for her ideals. Out of love. The world we wanted is not a place for such people.

Aoi told me some of what he does. The things the two of you are tangled in. Do not think I am scared of corrupting you. Far from it. I simply... can not bare losing either of you. Not again.

[exequte]

[She blinks at that, a little startled. She knew that Aoi had told him some things, though he'd never told her how much. But, now that he mentioned it....]

Um.

We can....

We can talk about it once we get to the infirmary, okay? Because right now....

I still want to make sure your wounds are treated, anyway. And... and they have painkillers there. Those would make you more comfortable, at least.

[pegasinister]

[He pauses, realizing how close he came to saying Details he Shouldn't.]

Ah... yes, let's.

[exequte]

[Her expression is still worried, though it all seems to be concern for him, as she looks up at him and then nods.]

Okay, come on.