[seasonality] catchall for kon

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w0, monday

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[lila is going to physics class!!



lila immediately regrets going to physics class. she hates this class. it's awful. but it would be bad form to just run out of class immediately, so she shoots kon a look that practically screams "why did I decide to do this?!" while their professor is lecturing.]

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[ conversely, kon is doing his utmost best to keep his mouth shut so that he doesn't get a scathing look that might lead to a failing grade. he's predisposed towards questioning teachers at every turn, and it's so hard to resist saying something to challenge the doctor.

he gives lila a sympathetic smile, before making a phone gesture with his hand at the side of his desk so that only she should really see it - thumb and pinky out, fingers curled - and following it up with reaching to pull his out. ]

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[she very subtly pulls her phone out to text him. she's hiding it under the desk so their teacher doesn't see it right away.]

i can't tell if none of this makes sense because it's actually confusing or because we've got a bad teacher!

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[ he slides his under a few pages of the notebook, adjusting how he's seated with his bum arm so that he looks like he's just getting more comfortable. ]

bad teacher, which makes an already hard subject miserable. apparently he made some massive strides in science, but moooostly he's blowing enough gas up his own ass to form a new star.

w0, saturday 2.0

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[wow! what a day.

lila, wearing the uniform on the right in summer dorm colors because her usual clothes are in the wash, heads into the kitchen because none of the stuff in the cafeteria sounds good to her and pauses when she spots kon.]

Cooking again...?

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[ kon glances up from where he's working - still wearing his haori over his kimono, but his black gakuran pants and shoes - before he looks back down. he rolls an onion across the cutting board, and then quickly takes the knife in hand to chop off an edge while it's midroll. ]

Yeah. Catharsis - something I can control and know.

[ sometimes you adapt to only having one arm through some finesse moves. ]

That ended with a technical "success," but. [ SHRUG ]

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[jesus christ i want to watch kon do a cooking show now, those are some cool moves


anyway.]

...but it didn't really feel good, right? [a beat.] It still feels like there's a lot we don't know. She must have had her reasons for what happened, right...? And I guess - it's only been a week, I can't really blame her for not trusting us enough to tell, but still...

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[ i saw it on a tiktok it was v inspirational for playing kon and his cooking methods. ]

I'm betting plenty of people are going to try and go talk to her about it. I'm not sure if I'll be one of them or not. [ a nudge with the onion with the knife, to get it on the flat side to dice. ] But yeah, you're right. We had normal conversations with her, in the dorm, and we didn't know a damn thing.

w0, sunday 2.0

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i found otome's medkit but i'm pretending i haven't yet so mabel doesn't insist on coming right back
but we'll run when it's time

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it's still going, so you've got a little more time.
don't know if that's fortunate or unfortunate, at this fucking rate.
[ SIGH ]
i told mabel to look for blankets/jackets - little extra reason to stay longer.

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good plan. that'll take some time to get together, but i'll stall for as long as possible.
nier is helping.

this is so messed up

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between the two of you, i think you can probably keep her occupied long enough.

yeah.
it is.

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[ a moment later: ]

kaoruko drew first blood. got otome on the temple - minor wound.
it'll look worse than it is when you get here; headwounds always bleed heavily, even if it's just a nick.

w1, friday

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[well, lila's leaving summer dorm! and she spots kon near winter dorm. she pauses, then calls out - ]

Kon? How are you feeling today?

[sir your burns...]

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[ as she's calling out, the distance might hide the slight flinch at her voice. but kon does look up from where he's fiddling with his phone, squinting against the light of day still even after resting up, eventually focusing on her. ]

Well. Everything hurts, but we have pain killers, and a dorm full of people that have been keeping an eye on me.

[ the burns are visible, in some places - near his temples and ears, the back and a little of the sides of his neck. he's got a loose shirt on and trying to not provoke anything. ]

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[WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED IN THIS CYOA AAAAAA IS IT UNLOCKS YET

anyway.]

I wish I could have gotten something better than just burn ointment for you guys, but... [alas, a lack of vouchers] ...but I hope you keep healing well, and I'm glad your dormmates are looking out for you.

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[ :wehe: ]

Burn ointment is doing wonders for us, Lila, because we're all kind of badly covered by it. [ and there's four of them. he slowly moves to pocket his phone, shifting just enough to sit up a little more. should she be particularly perceptive, she might notice that his gaze doesn't linger on her face - it does return, but strays occasionally. ] Just have to keep everything clean and taken care of.

w1, saturday

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[lila does go looking for kon, but... per your plurk, probably isn't able to find him! so. she texts him, instead.]

i won't ask if you're okay... i don't think any of us are
but is there anything i can do to help you right now?

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[ he's disappeared! it's a mystery!
no honestly he's probably just preoccupied with the rest of his cyoa group and then back in the dorm ]

it's not
[ mm ]
i don't know if there's anything that can help except a hail mary, li.
but that sure was a joke, huh?
it felt like we were on the cusp of something, but we just couldn't *see* it, and then
we just missed completely.

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[honestly he's valid]

i think
we were probably on track with mollymauk's interpretation of the goose clue
we just got distracted by how the geese were reacting to people...

[which, to be entirely fair, last week's trial did hinge on who a dog hated.]

it's going to be hard to keep my temper if we find out who did it later

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yeah
yeah i think something was there, with that hint and molly's read of it.
i
well, it's why i voted for byleth. her injuries, her biting a lot of people, that hint, and just - the fact that we didn't have anything else to fucking go on.
didn't mean it felt right, though.
didn't mean any of it felt right.

already lost my temper once today. not sure i'd be able to hold it, either, if we figure it out later.

w7, saturday

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[


out by the beaufa, lila finds kon. he is starfished, in your own words.]

...umm...

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[ in my own words! kon raises one of his hands, in a slight wave, before flopping it back down. ]

Welcome to the land of Beaufa, on this fine pre-graduation evening.

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[well!



she'll just take a seat.]

We're almost done! Soon we'll be getting out of here.

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[ he probably dragged a blanket and some pillows out of the beaufa, so he's not laying directly in the grass. she can join him on it. ]

Thank god for that. I think I've been done for - [ his hand comes back up, as if he's checking a watch on his wrist. ] - about eight weeks, now?