[not again] catchall for escha

[fishingforcompliments]

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w4, saturday

[fishingforcompliments]

[Any other week, Flayn might have stumbled across Escha because she was following the smell of her dinner - but this week, it's pure chance. Her footsteps slow to a stop as she realizes she's come across her.]

...ah - Escha...

[applechemist]

[ Escha offers a very, very weak smile. ]

... Hey, Flayn.

[ there's an awkwardly long pause where she's trying to remember what she usually says at times like these. ........... oh, right. ]

Good work, today.

[fishingforcompliments]

...

[she shakes her head.]

I did not accomplish much of anything. It was the rest of you who did.

[applechemist]

[ Escha's shoulders slump. ]

I'm feeling the same way, though. I don't feel like I did enough.

[fishingforcompliments]

...I do not think it will ever feel like enough for any of us. Not until this is over.

[Finding just one killer - or two, gods, that last five minutes was so much - doesn't feel satisfying. They're only half-done.]

[applechemist]

Even then, unless we break the game, it's still not going to feel like a victory.

[ No matter which team wins. Hm. Positivity machine broken. ]

[fishingforcompliments]

[R.I.P. genki girls, minako took all the positivity with her when she left.]

No, it will not. We must find a way.

[applechemist]

[ she really did. Escha looks at Flayn for a long moment, then musters up as much positivity as she can. For Flayn's sake. ]

We're going to.

[fishingforcompliments]

...yes.

[She really, really wants to believe that.]

Thank you, Escha. ...for reminding me.

[applechemist]

All of us could use reminding.

It's... Hard to have faith in it. I know that.

[fishingforcompliments]

...it is. But...

[She breathes out.]

...if nothing else... we can have faith in each other, can we not?

[applechemist]

Yes - of course. Of course we can.

I think we should trust each other more than we trust any of the "rules" of this place.

[fishingforcompliments]

[she nods]

I think so, too. We merely have to figure out how best to circumnavigate those rules.

[applechemist]

... I don't know what that means about trials, though, and how we should navigate them.

[fishingforcompliments]

...I do not, either. I suppose we do not have much choice but to... continue as we have been. [...] If failing to vote would result in the same thing as no one dying at all, then... I cannot see that we have much choice.

[applechemist]

The ways that we can break the rules... Might be different. Outside of trials, maybe.

[fishingforcompliments]

You may be right - there is not as immediate a threat of death outside of the trials as there are within them...