[seasonality] catchall for rupert

[wtfox]

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[heartlands]

...We'd been told that if we told anyone, or hinted anything, or even if someone else found out and told others - the world itself might strike back somehow, and it could risk everyone. I wanted to tell everyone, or to find another way, but...

[he sighs.]

We could only tell the people we were about to kill, because the world wouldn't have time to strike back, given how soon afterwards they would be... you know.

[wtfox]

...but the world was okay with you guys adding one more person to your ranks every week? It didn't strike back about that?

[her brow furrows...]

Or maybe it did, and that's why someone went after Sieghart...?

[heartlands]

[after a moment of thought, he shakes his head.]

I don't think we would have been allowed to do that if there was any risk.

[wtfox]

...so someone just got violent on their own.

[she frowns. kaine, why.]

[heartlands]

...I want to think she had a reason. Kaine's - not a cruel person, even if she can be abrasive.

[wtfox]

...

[lila sighs.]

I was listening in - Sieghart told Bradley that she said he had to die for this to end.

[heartlands]

...If that's true, I don't know anything about it.

[wtfox]

...so there's more going on here, and either Kaine or whoever made her believe Sieghart needed to die is going to have to die for us to find out about it.

[heartlands]

[he thinks about that for a moment.]

Well - a while ago, Viola had a piece of information about this place that she sold to Crow for a few vouchers. If everyone who's still alive got that kind of offer, maybe there's a chance we will, too? Have you been able to talk to any of the dorm heads while we've been here?

[wtfox]

Maybe, but it doesn't really seem like there's any ways for us to earn vouchers... I did plenty when I was alive that should've earned me some, but I didn't get any when I woke up here.

[she shrugs.]

...we tried contacting the living from our phones and it just bounced back. I dunno if Lan Wangji tried to message a dorm head though...

[heartlands]

Wait, so - extra credit or tasks aren't a thing here? I mean, I guess we wouldn't need healing items or anything here... Nobody has a reason to hurt each other anymore.

[he frowns at the part about the dorm heads, though.]

[wtfox]

I haven't tried to do my extra credit, but we aren't doing any Dorm Wars tasks here.

[some of them were just impossible this week, anyway! you can't go anywhere with someone when you're stuck in a single room...]

Last week, I got a coupon for participating in the debate club on Friday, but even though we did an assignment this past Wednesday - the bear had us do art - we haven't seen anything yet. It just said it would probably be of great help if we did.

So... I think things are probably different here.

[heartlands]

[he nods, thinking.]

So... If he said there's something we could do that would be of great help, it's just a matter of figuring out all the other ways that we can help from where we are. Maybe someone could try to do extra credit and see if it gets us anything?

[wtfox]

Maybe. It might be easier said than done in some cases.

[for example - there are so few of them! she can hardly ask rupert for help with her extra credit, now, because it'll be way too obvious and it won't count.]

The worst that can happen is... nothing happens. So I guess it can't hurt to try.

[heartlands]

...Yeah. It might be tough depending on what we've got. But I think we can figure it out.

[wtfox]

...

[she catches herself just about to agree - yeah, we can - and then frowns, because that's something she would have said before finding out she died for his sins.]

[heartlands]

...What is it?

[wtfox]

...why is it so hard for me to stay angry at you?

[heartlands]

[he... doesn't have an answer for that! so he stays silent, but he does look guilty.]

[wtfox]

[she waits for an answer - and when she doesn't get one, she stays silent and looks away.]

[heartlands]

[once she looks away:]

I just - I don't want to tell you how to feel. You have every right to be angry at me.

[wtfox]

I know I do. But then we get to talking, and it's like before I knew what you did and what I died for, and that's frustrating.

[heartlands]

[...]

Do you need some space?

[wtfox]

...yeah. Yeah, I think I do.

[and so they sat on opposite sides of the daycare until our next thread]