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[omegathree]

My future either holds my death or my continued survival. It's out of my hands now, so panic won't do much good.

[ He looks pretty calm all things considered. ]

[whitewalls]

... I guess so.

[ if this is his last night, then spending it crying might not feel right. ]

Are you going to stay here?

[omegathree]

[ He's never really been the type to wallow. Usually he had enough work to not dwell on the past.

It's not exactly the same here. ]

... Yes. Until tomorrow morning I'll be here.

If I die send me sardines on those boats.

[whitewalls]

... okay. Although I hope I won't have to.

[ although she doesn't want any of the others to die either. ]

[omegathree]

A few people are going to die tomorrow no matter what. Whoever is pairing people will be going their best, but I doubt it's going to be an easy decision for them.

[whitewalls]

... I don't really envy whoever has to choose.

[ it feels like a lot to have on your shoulders ]

[omegathree]

Choices are always difficult. Especially when it comes to lives to keep.

[whitewalls]

Like what we had to do today...

[ there was a very real chance they could have gotten it wrong. ]

[omegathree]

We came down to the wire on this one. As a group, we were lucky we found one of the Corrupted.

[But also there's one more of them out there.]

[whitewalls]

And some of the reasons we even found her was by coincidences.

[ please imagine if anna never did that elevator prompt and we never found out you couldn't just normally open the escape hatch ]

[omegathree]

If anything, it's a good reason to throughly search whatever new places are available. It'll be easier to know how things were tampered with if you know what they were like before.

[whitewalls]

That's true... and I think we'll need to try to teach each other things. We all come from very different places, so some people might not realize something is wrong because it's not something they're used to.

[omegathree]

That's true. The more you know, the better equipped you'll be to handle the upcoming weeks.

Promise me you'll do your best to learn and help others while you're here.

[whitewalls]

I'll do everything that I can.

... I just hope that you'll be able to do that, too.

[omegathree]

Thank you, lass.

[...]

How about this? I can't guarantee who will live tomorrow, but if I do, I promise you I'll help as many people here as I can.

[whitewalls]

[ she holds her hand out, her pinky extended towards him. ]

Promise.

[omegathree]

[Ah, yes. This is something children do, though he doesn't know why.

That doesn't make it any less important of a promise.

He links his pinky with hers.]

On my honor as a proud and noble demon, I will keep this promise.

[whitewalls]

[ that makes her smile as she really hopes that he'll be able to have a chance to fulfill it. ]

... me too. I won't let you down.

[omegathree]

[He offers her a much softer smile as he takes his hand back.]

I don't know how much people trust Sol and Lune, but I do think it's important we understand and support each other.

[whitewalls]

Yeah.

... if I'm honest, I think Sol and Lune got a worse deal than we did. Seeing how many times Lune was forced to stop talking was kind of...

[ bad ]

And I know they're making friends with people here, so it must be hard to have to sit through trial without being able to help as much as they might want to. I'd get frustrated.

[omegathree]

We can speak freely, even if we don't know what's happening around us. They know, and they try to help, but the universe refuses to let them reveal key details.

[Val nods when Namine brings up the forced muffling of Lune.]

Sol said his favorite human ideal is the one where people support and help each other become stronger together than apart. It's something I've always admired in them.

I hope we can spark something along the lines of camaraderie here.

[whitewalls]

I don't blame people for not trusting them.

[ they're in a stressful situation, and the only people with any kind of authority isn't what they wanted them to be. getting upset is fairly understandable. ]

I just hope we can get to a point where we don't just assume the worst. it kind of wastes time, if people just argue with them...

[omegathree]

I understand why people are suspicious, but I don't think they're lying about what they know and share with us.

[It doesn't help with the people in charge have no idea what's going on.]

I do have a tendency to believe what people tell me.

[The odds of that working out for him aren't great. Still, that's just the way he is.]

[whitewalls]

... I believe them too.

[ she's not sure if that makes her naive or not, but she thinks if either of them are lying about anything, it's probably in a regular way that doesn't really have anything to do with why they're here. ]

And sometimes they say things like... it's not the right time for certain conversations yet. I think that means they'll be allowed to tell us more as time passes, or that the universe will share things with them they don't know yet. So that's something to look forward to.

[omegathree]

[There are plenty of things people lie about. What and who they are, why the universe took them earlier. All kinds of things.

He tries very hard not to live in the fact he could die tomorrow, but even his ability to avoid that is made a bit more difficult right now. "Something to look forward to."]

For you, certainly. [It's said just as casually as he'd talk about anything else.] I do think the universe is being difficult, but I also have no idea why.