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sixillusions) wrote2024-06-08 12:07 pm
sixillusions) wrote2024-06-08 12:07 pm
[catchall] Kate
An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house
An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house
An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house
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Don't do anything stupid.
[PLEASE DON'T CHARGE INTO THE FOG IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE UP FOR SERIAL KILLING AND DIE FOR REAL HE DOESN'T WANT THAT
But otherwise--]
For now, we need to get as many of the rest of them over here as possible. It sounds crazy, but they don't have a lot of time to think about it. So try to help us convince them.
[Truly ironic that by the time they figured out Kate's crimes it would've been better to let her go on a killing spree and only take her out at the last minute]
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[ warmly. relieved that he would say such a thing. ]
They may be safer here, but there will be five who remain. What will happen to them? If they're sacrificed...
[ a little smoke rising from her head at that. ]
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We should try to only leave one or two people over there, at most. [He knows that people fixated on "just under 6" to minimize cult suspicion, but he'd rather take the risk and get as many people out as possible.] If we're careful with the timing, the cult won't be able to do anything about it.
[As for the ones left behind, though... he doesn't have anything comforting to tell her. He doesn't know how to help them, either. From his point of view, it's very likely that they'll be sacrificed.
He should probably tell her that, the same way he'd told her, well-meaning but blunt as always, that she'd have to make a choice. But instead, he sits for a minute, quiet.]
...People think that the weird, creepy things people keep taking from that room are necessary for the ritual. If they don't have it, they might not be able to do it.
[It's not much--it's not even real hope, as far as he's concerned, but. It's the only thing he can think of to offer her.]
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[ there's just more smoke. she is considering it, but she knows it's a slim hope. ]
We can encourage them to come over here, but I'm worried about leaving the last few people so vulnerable... Lavi and Alfyn had their hands full last weekend dealing with a monster, and I hate to think of what would have happened if they weren't there.
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[He doesn't remember Ishtar's name but he does remember her death... I think it would be funny if we just saw an uptick in off-schedule deaths for endgame and people just stumble into the graveyard dazed and confused
But he is... tentatively... going to believe that they're smart enough to leave at least one fighter. He's not a naturally optimistic person, and he doesn't have a ton of faith in their collective intelligence, but he does think that they care enough about each other that they aren't going to abandon, like, Laudna and Camille to fend for themselves.]
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[ quietly offers the name. kanda pls. ]
... I suppose that in the end, we can give them as much information as possible, and they'll have to make the best decisions they can with that.
It sounded like the people at the haunted house were already catching on to what will need to happen, when we last discussed as a group.
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But he nods, at that, unsurprised. He didn't always attend the group meetings, but he was certainly told of them afterward.]
We have to wait for them, now.
[Which kind of sucks, but. It is what it is. Like she said--all they can do is pass on what they know. It's up to the living to make use of it.]
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It's hard, to be so powerless to affect things.
[ and she imagines it's harder for kanda, who may not always choose to be involved, but would surely act wherever he felt it necessary.
kate is somewhat used to having to wait and see how things pan out, stressful as it is. ]
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[She's right; it's something he's struggled with since they got here and they realized there was nothing to do but sit around and wait to die. Kanda doesn't need to be a savior or a hero--despite his attitude, he's perfectly capable of working with a group or letting others take charge. But he gets frustrated and restless when there's nothing he's capable of available to him.]