[not again] catchall for escha

[fishingforcompliments]

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[fishingforcompliments]

[escha is a blessing]

That is very kind of you to offer. Thank you.

[applechemist]

[ Escha nods. ] I already checked in the shop, and I didn't see anything useful...

They were really unprepared for this.

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes.

...I was not certain at first, but I think I believe them when they say they did not intend for this to happen.

[applechemist]

I believe them... And I saw what happened when they tried to tell us more...

But that doesn't make it any less frustrating.

[fishingforcompliments]

It is incredibly frustrating. But... I suppose it is up to us to come up with questions they can answer for us.

[applechemist]

Right. There have to be loopholes. We just have to find them.

[ Hrm, she tries to think of an example, but her brain is fried from the rest of today. ]

... I'm no good at this sort of thing.

[fishingforcompliments]

...unfortunately, neither am I.

[coming up with something on the spot is hard]

But as we learn more about this place and come to understand it - well, it should be easier to find something, then.

[applechemist]

I just... Hope we can get it right, this time.

[fishingforcompliments]

[That's right - Escha was from the same place as Tonbokiri.]

...I am sure that we will. Have faith, Escha.

[applechemist]

Can I ask - how did you do it?

I don't want to make you talk about anything uncomfortable... But I just don't understand what sort of conditions had to be met to save people.

[fishingforcompliments]

I do not mind at all. The more we know, the more we can do.

[Flayn folds her hands in her lap and thinks back.]

...from what I understand, the island's curse had settled itself particularly strongly within one of us. His job was to make sure the rest of us spilled the amount of blood that was needed for a ritual. But... he was discovered, and when he was killed, the curse was broken.

That was when those of us who had been killed already were revived.

[applechemist]

Doesn't that make it seem like rebelling against the rules imposed on us is what would actually help us get out?

[fishingforcompliments]

Hmm... I am not certain. In our case, it was less rebelling against the rules and more determining the curse's origin.

[applechemist]

Does that mean you found out who started the curse to begin with? Before you had even arrived?

[fishingforcompliments]

I don't know if it was a who so much as it was... the majority of the curse had settled itself within him when he arrived with the rest of us.

I would have wondered if it was simply some sort of trick, but others who had succumbed to the curse even before we arrived were set free.

[applechemist]

So... The actual actual origins are still a mystery...?

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes. ...I suppose it may be possible that this is an extension of that curse, but... that does not explain why all of you are here.

[applechemist]

I don't think that this place is an extension of that curse or anything...

But it seems like even the places that got some kind of better ending - didn't actually do that much. They just made it out.

[fishingforcompliments]

...well, hopefully this time will be different.