pc catchall | chasma | rochalizo

[yueshen]

ill put a real meme here at some point you get this for now

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[allyship]

[he looks up, the wind stinging against his face.]

... I suppose we'll see what everyone decides.

[yueshen]

As we always do.

[ ... ]

...I miss her, already.

[allyship]

[...

tears prick in rochalizo's good eye, but he keeps them at bay.]

... As do I.

[yueshen]

[ xie lian is not a particularly hug-y person - it's just not a thing - but, he shifts, a little, and leans over to bump his shoulder into rochalizo's, the look on his face moving to just... impossibly sad. ]

...I can't help but wonder, if she would think it an absolution. [ especially after last week. ] A just punishment. But, selfishly, I - I was hoping it would never come to it.

[allyship]

[rochalizo can only return the look of sorrow.]

I... I hope she fought back. I hope she didn't want to die.

[yueshen]

I do too.

[ the song lyrics repeat in his head, in a snatched fragment. pleading for their life is twisting the knife.

he swallows, trying to keep it off of his face. ] ...She had Mumei with her, last night. Her sword. She went into it armed, at least.

[allyship]

[haha! yeah!]

... Good. Susato is— [was?] —clever. If she didn't want to die, she wouldn't be so easy to defeat, I think.

[yueshen]

[ he nods. ]

Perhaps we can assume the perpetrator would have had to use some sort of power, or be simply strong enough to subdue her quickly, which - to some, may appear easy.

[ but as both xie lian and rochalizo know, that isn't the case. ] She must have left clues. Just as she did during her trial - with her book.

[allyship]

So it was a clue, then...?

[honestly he didn't figure out anything about her book in particular, despite suspecting it was a clue somehow.]

We'll just have to find them.