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[disingenuous]

caw caw motherfucker

make a group of you

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[disingenuous]

[ it's fine. she needs something stronger than her usual wine this post-execution time of day.

She grabs some brandy and on second thought, also grabs some soju, before she sits next to him. Her vibes are still mostly calm, but there is still a very noticeable grim undercurrent. ]

[chevaliered]

[ he has no idea what soju is but. mood.

crow seems mostly under control? but there's a big old rumble of something like frustration and anger all balled up into one.

he just sighs though. ]

[disingenuous]

[ yeah, his fantasy world means she can drop hints of her isekai life and not worry too much about it, and even if he asked, she'd be lie and say someone showed her or she read about it in the library.

She will drink the brandy first before she touches the soju. ]

Frustrated by the execution? Or the Prism as a whole?

[ Both? ]

[chevaliered]

Both is a good enough answer for me, although it's definitely more at the execution itself.

[ roxana your isekai secrets. ]

[disingenuous]

For Vin? Or...?

[ everybody has a little secret. ]

[chevaliered]

For Vin. And for Ruby.

[ what ]

[disingenuous]

[ It doesn't take two and two when Atsushi touched the rose pin, and Vax nudged Ruby. Roxana isn't slow on the romance uptake. ]

They're so young.

[ Roxana is not that much older than they are. ]

[chevaliered]

[ crow has his own reason for suspecting — roxana might catch a glimpse of a little golden rose on a chain around his neck if she’s looking. ]

A lot of people here are. But they ended up with that responsibility.

[disingenuous]

[ When isn't Roxana paying attention? Ruby out here divulging her love life to all these people. ]

Most of them are strong enough to handle it, I think, even if they shouldn't have to.

[chevaliered]

[ ruby's a good bean. ]

Yeah, but like you said -- they shouldn't have to. Just because they can. They'll get through it, but it's gonna hurt like heck for a long time.

[disingenuous]

That's the nature of this place. Either they persist despite all the hurt, or....

[ they break. ]

[chevaliered]

Mm.

[ he doesn't really expand on it. he knows what she means. ]

Still. It sort of hit home there yesterday, huh?

[disingenuous]

It did. I don't know if it'll get any better.

[ she is pretty sure it won't. ]

[chevaliered]

Who knows. We had one surprise save after all.

[disingenuous]

[ It was automatically negated by Malik turning after for Roxana.

He can feel that in her emotions

in how it's not even calm

it's empty.

She's fucking blank. ]

It was not a net positive.

[chevaliered]

It wasn’t. Couldn’t even let us have that for a moment before it got wrecked, huh?

[ ro your emotions. your EMOTIONS. ]

[disingenuous]

I hate it.

[ This is genuine. He doesn't need her emotions to know that even if she's still as stony-faced and as even-toned as ever. ]

[chevaliered]

…

[ that’s a relatable mood, though. ]

Yeah. I’m not a fan either.

[disingenuous]

I'm tired of it. I have been tired of it.

[chevaliered]

[ unsurprising. ]

So, what do we do about it? That’s the next question. We’re stuck still, without any clear way out.

[disingenuous]

[ she feels steely and also a little resigned. it's terrible. ]

I don't know. We've started compiling all our information, but... it's still only that.

[chevaliered]

We need… less of a trickle and more of a flood of it.

[disingenuous]

Enough to make a plan and execute it.

[chevaliered]

Exactly.