[ thank god for apollo justice being genre savvy otherwise we wouldn't even know it's a murder ]
...yeah.
[ he ducks his head a little, a tiny bit scolded, voice rough and heavy, and looks down at his hand, rubbing his thumb over the top of his knuckles. you sure you can handle yourself? ]
We were together last night. Everything was - as fine as it could be, then, I don't... some kind of spell, or something. I didn't wake up. I don't - I don't know why I didn't wake up.
The same happened to me as well. I felt fully awake, and then suddenly... since we were in two different places, then it must have been outside interference.
[ ...
she pats his shoulder. ]
Something likely stopped you from waking up. It was not a failing on your part.
[ isn't it though? (it really isn't.) just one more unbroken promise, one more day in the life of a useless noble who can't and could never protect his people.
he's silent, for a long moment, swallowing back whatever tide of bitterness that buries itself in like a tick. focus, strohl. focus. ]
But what? And why? Not like anything here so far's stopped anyone from dying. 's no magla or magic around, either. [ mumbling through his thought process: ] The food...? But we've all been eating all week, and it's not like it was isolated - like you said.
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...yeah.
[ he ducks his head a little, a tiny bit scolded, voice rough and heavy, and looks down at his hand, rubbing his thumb over the top of his knuckles. you sure you can handle yourself? ]
We were together last night. Everything was - as fine as it could be, then, I don't... some kind of spell, or something. I didn't wake up. I don't - I don't know why I didn't wake up.
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[ ...
she pats his shoulder. ]
Something likely stopped you from waking up. It was not a failing on your part.
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he's silent, for a long moment, swallowing back whatever tide of bitterness that buries itself in like a tick. focus, strohl. focus. ]
But what? And why? Not like anything here so far's stopped anyone from dying. 's no magla or magic around, either. [ mumbling through his thought process: ] The food...? But we've all been eating all week, and it's not like it was isolated - like you said.
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[ instead of just talking amongst themselves... but it's too late for that. ]
I think we are still mostly strangers to each other, which may make things difficult.
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[ after everything that happened. she's right - it's frustrating, and he scrubs his hand over his face, exhausted and mad and full of emotions. ]
...This has to stop. All of it.
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[ she is really just thinking about finding a body with sasaki, who is so normie. ]