[catchall] Kate

[sixillusions]

An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house

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[sootprints]

Oh...

[ 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.

[sixillusions]

Yeah. They're lucky none of them died like that other woman.

[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.]

[sootprints]

Ishtar.

[ 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.

[sixillusions]

[STOP LISTEN he's done so well all game. There are so many people here. Why do you all have names.

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.]

[sootprints]

... Yes.

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. ]

[sixillusions]

...I know.

[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.]