[ upon nudging the door open and seeing it's harrow, gu yun lets her in with no trouble! his room is like, spartan clean and undecorated - there's a bottle of baiju on the table half empty and a cup, as well as what are likely his notes he mentioned earlier sitting nearby. ]
[ thinking... this is fine. he waves harrow over to the table and goes to sit down with his notes. ] I received a power from an Avatar in one of the first weeks. It was one I could have associated with that Avatar's sin. Maybe there's a connection there?
Eight makes sense. It's not like we can account for the missing people - would be rather nice if we could shout into those bizarre pods and they could hear us. [ this is so sarcastic it's fine. ] One of them is the power that cursed White, right? That was unaccounted for.
It's long expired, but it was the ability to make someone feel as though they were shot. It wouldn't kill them, but they would feel all the pain of it. I was planning to use it to defend myself, if it were necessary.
As for the arrows - it takes us back to our original group of unaccounted for people, yes? We can still assume it had to be one of them.
Correct, although theoretically it would have been possible to swap.
. . . Unfortunately, I can't tell you who of the original group I said I'd look into are still unaccounted for. Not until Friday, as I gave my word they would only be telling me. So. Consider the same list of suspects from before still in play.
[ he taps his fingertips against the table, thoughtful. ]
...What do you think? I suppose Mahito is always an option, especially if it might have been more malicious. Maybe... if it was more mischievous, Yuel?
[ .... ]
Actually. Now that I'm remembering, Yuel pressed me a bit last week seeking gossip.
[ he pauses for a moment, trying to recall their conversation. ]
'Romance is in the air', she'd said. [ hmmm ] She brought it up to me a bit out of nowhere, but I just took it for Yuel being Yuel. [ because she's like that. ]
But, neither White nor Molly came up, so. I agree with you - if it was her, it was likely more playful and thoughtless than cruel.
I hate the idea that he'll be hurt by this. Or that one of them will do something that hurts the other after, and they'll have to live with it. Perhaps if you give away your affections freely, this feels like a harmless prank? I fear that if this were me, it would destroy me.
I've been realizing lately that it would be. . . much harder, to live contently, when you have experienced something better than what you had and have to return to what you had before.
[ ohhhh hate that so much. he hates that so much. ]
...There's a lot to be said about this place and the terrible things it does. [ considering literally everything. but. ] ...Living a life newly indulgent, surrounded by people, does come with risks beyond being killed.
[ gu yun's quiet for a second, curling his hands around the glass he was drinking out of. ]
...It's already hurting Molly. I spent some time with him on Monday. [ the broken, miserable way he'd answered one of gu yun's questions. what he was asking for, the entire time. it's stuck with him since, and harrow bringing this up chips at wherever he buried those emotions and set them aside.
i mean it. i mean it, why does no one believe me? his grip on the glass tightens. ]
The idea that it might have just been someone's poor decision making infuriates me more than anything else.
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An eventful evening, to say the least.
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[And they can talk about it shortly, but. . .]
It wasn't Eleanor. I've also identified I think eight separate powers, and none of them would have caused the fighting.
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So the fighting likely was a gifted Avatar power.
[ thinking... this is fine. he waves harrow over to the table and goes to sit down with his notes. ] I received a power from an Avatar in one of the first weeks. It was one I could have associated with that Avatar's sin. Maybe there's a connection there?
Eight makes sense. It's not like we can account for the missing people - would be rather nice if we could shout into those bizarre pods and they could hear us. [ this is so sarcastic it's fine. ] One of them is the power that cursed White, right? That was unaccounted for.
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. . . What was the Avatar power you were given?
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As for the arrows - it takes us back to our original group of unaccounted for people, yes? We can still assume it had to be one of them.
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. . . Unfortunately, I can't tell you who of the original group I said I'd look into are still unaccounted for. Not until Friday, as I gave my word they would only be telling me. So. Consider the same list of suspects from before still in play.
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...What do you think? I suppose Mahito is always an option, especially if it might have been more malicious. Maybe... if it was more mischievous, Yuel?
[ .... ]
Actually. Now that I'm remembering, Yuel pressed me a bit last week seeking gossip.
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[Hmm.]
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'Romance is in the air', she'd said. [ hmmm ] She brought it up to me a bit out of nowhere, but I just took it for Yuel being Yuel. [ because she's like that. ]
But, neither White nor Molly came up, so. I agree with you - if it was her, it was likely more playful and thoughtless than cruel.
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[ hate it thanks ] And that's coming from me, too. [ local asshole who loves pranks ]
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[Hmm.]
I hate the idea that he'll be hurt by this. Or that one of them will do something that hurts the other after, and they'll have to live with it. Perhaps if you give away your affections freely, this feels like a harmless prank? I fear that if this were me, it would destroy me.
I've been realizing lately that it would be. . . much harder, to live contently, when you have experienced something better than what you had and have to return to what you had before.
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...There's a lot to be said about this place and the terrible things it does. [ considering literally everything. but. ] ...Living a life newly indulgent, surrounded by people, does come with risks beyond being killed.
[ gu yun's quiet for a second, curling his hands around the glass he was drinking out of. ]
...It's already hurting Molly. I spent some time with him on Monday. [ the broken, miserable way he'd answered one of gu yun's questions. what he was asking for, the entire time. it's stuck with him since, and harrow bringing this up chips at wherever he buried those emotions and set them aside.
i mean it. i mean it, why does no one believe me? his grip on the glass tightens. ]
The idea that it might have just been someone's poor decision making infuriates me more than anything else.