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[sootprints]

So what was it about?

[flameguard]

[ KATE ]


Nooooo......

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But what if it turns out to be an important clue?

[flameguard]

I don't think - I don't think a wedding is an important clue........

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Whose wedding!?

[flameguard]

[ mumbles ]

[sootprints]

[ leaning in. tugging on his sleeve to pull herself closer. straining her shadowy little ears. ]

Who?

[flameguard]

[ well i havent done anything with this all week so the compulsion to blurt out secrets kicks in and its: ]

IhadaweirddreamthatmeandMarinaweregettingmarriedbuthtenwehadtodosomethingweirdtoactuallygetmarriedandthenIwokeup!

[sootprints]

[ a scandalized gasp! ]

[flameguard]

[ ALSO GASPS

WHY IS HE SURPRISED ]

-- You, you, you can't tell anyone, don't tell anyone!

[sootprints]

[ pats his arm. ]

It was just a dream. It's nothing to be embarrassed about.

[flameguard]

[ facehands ]

If you say so, Miss Kate... [ mortifying ] At any rate, I don't think it was relevant to anything... maybe it was just my subconscious after yesterday's odd debate events... either way, it startled me awake so badly I slept poorly.

[ someone out there just trolled me with a weird dream is what fckin happened when i get you whoever you are ]

[sootprints]

Try to rest and refresh a little before the evening, all right?

[ she says, not knowing what the mingle is about to do ]

... By the way, have you come across any new information?

[ mercifully changing the subject. ]

[flameguard]

[ today is such a things happens on days kind of day

he nods, rubbing his face. god. though the sweet and merciful kate changes the subject, and he tilts his head, and then seems to ! ]

Oh! Actually - yes, I have something! I wasn't sure - we had a plan to spread it out to the different places, and I wasn't sure if Mr. Daan had gotten his part out yet. Here.

[ rondo digs through his pile of books and pulls out his bestiary, then flips to the blank pages in the back. copied in his neat handwriting is the following:

—ter what happened today, I don't think you could call this place safe by any stretch of the imagination. We've seen it react now in nearly a hostile way to our presence, and I don't know how long we can stay. Even so, the fact that it exists at all is beyond my expectation.

I suspect some of them want to reach out and make contact with the others, to ease their grief. I understand. But on the other hand, the cult realizing that this place exists—that there might be any space, no matter how small, that they cannot observe—would be catastrophic. What little safety and advantage we do have would be forfeit, and the cult is likely to wipe the slate clean and start over. And in truth, I have no proof that there's a way back.

So, is it worth hoping that they can keep a secret? Perhaps it is cruel, but I want to err on the side of caution.

]

[sootprints]

Oh! Yuffie shared this with our household.

But... what do you think it means?

[flameguard]

...To me... though I do not want to get anyone's hopes up - we discussed that it sounded quite a bit like a connection to the afterlife of sorts.

[ such things aren't weird when you spend time in hell ]

I thought that the voice of the person writing it sounded an awful lot like Mr. Nehan.

[sootprints]

... I see.

I... I don't know. I'm afraid of hoping for such a thing.

[flameguard]

[ ... ]

I am too. Even if it is them, it warned, after all, that it might be impossible to make any kind of connection.

That being said, I...have always thought - that Sir Iwatooshi and Cloud and... everyone else we lost, that they're watching over us somewhere, though I never really thought that it was close. Whether this is a truth or not, achievable or not, I think I want to allow myself the chance to hope one way or another.

[ a quiet little huff. ] "Hope is the thing that kills you, and the thing that keeps you alive," after all.

[sootprints]

[ sooting a little as she thinks on all of that... ]

Is that something you heard before? It does sound... apt.

[flameguard]

Yes. It... last week, when Mathis, Lavi, Miss Ashlyn and I were sent off to Hell, we were there to rescue a young woman named Hope. She'd clearly... been through something quite terrible while she was there. But she said to us that hope itself couldn't survive in the house, and told us to hold onto it to, even if it was dangerous. And... she told us that, too, that it's what kills you, and what keeps you alive.

[ in between yelling things like having rats burst out of your chest and your skin peeled and stuff. we stan hope ]

I thought... well. As the Flameguard, it is my duty to hold onto hope, and be the light for the people who seek it in times of great trouble. So... I think she was right. Having hope can be heartbreaking, sometimes, but... that makes it even more important that we have it. I'll choose it every time.

[sootprints]

[ she hesitates, then places a hand on his. the hand trembles a little. ]

I will, too.

[flameguard]

[ noooooo BABY....

he immediately turns his hand up to wrap his around hers, holding it tightly, and ducking his head to... i'd say meet her gaze but. shadows. the intention is there, though. ]

You won't have to walk that path alone. [ genuine and heartfelt. ] I promise.