trustfell | Week 7.

WEEK 7
Orihime Inoue, Estellise Sidos Heurassein, and Kirei Kotomine all died this past week. One of your Coordinators died as well, leaving you with a new face but still no end to this. Several of you are finding yourselves at a crossroads: either keep moving forward, or accept the inevitability of fate. It's your own choice, your own decision; no one's going to make it for you.

Over half of you are gone now.

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost...

Once again, a new floor has been opened to you; unfortunately, either this is a particularly strange reward or Jericho is starting to get downright sarcastic. Perhaps there's something in it for you despite the setup; who knows, though there's really only one way to find out.

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[OOC: Welcome to week seven of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Hilda!]

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I have to admit, this seems like a good way to relieve stress.

[Sayaka latches onto that bit, and she'll walk in, hoping to get nearby and just...kind of try to smile a bit. Even if it feels forced, for Alex's sake, she'd do anything.]

...Are you worried, though?

[ Mm..nngh.... Her face falls, though not much. Her smile didn't reach that far, anyway. ]

It's a little hard not to be. It's...a rough one, this week. It seems they keep being rough ones.

[ Never mind thinking about Michael. Never mind all of that. ]

[...Sayaka's quick to walk closer, sashaying around a bit so she can try to cup Alex's cheek and just...kiss her on the forehead, if she'll allow it.]

...No, I understand that. It just keeps getting more difficult by the week...will you talk to me, though?

[Concern practically laces her tone.]

[ Mmm... That's good, a forehead kiss. Really, she... ]

...Of course, I just... Sayaka, I'm scared. I'm... [ ... ] I don't want anyone to get killed for me.

...I don't want anyone to get killed for me, either.

[That's...stated a bit more monotone than she'd like, and her gaze goes downward when she says that. That hand doesn't leave Alex's cheek, though.]

It's frightening to think about, if I can be honest. I don't want to think that someone's going to just...be able to do something like that.

[ Sayaka says that and a little tiny bit of Alex relaxes. There's a small worry, in her gut... ]

So many of us have...gotten close here. It's- that they're even targeting that now... [ urgh ] ...I can understand it. Wanting to get out with someone...but I won't do it.

[...Sayaka just...pulls Alex into a hug, suddenly, clinging very tightly. She feels relieved, almost--she knows that Alex wouldn't lie. And she hopes that she wouldn't, really, but...]

...I won't, either. I don't think I could handle it, and... [...There's a very big pause there, and Sayaka's not sure if she wants to admit she considered it. Still is, but--] I'm so tired of losing people.

[ Oh...! Oh, Sayaka... Well, her worries are alleviated, to an extent. She'll...not say them out loud, because it's not like she'd blame Sayaka for considering, to begin with.

So, what matters right now...is reassuring her. Alex returns the hug and runs a hand through Sayaka's short hair. ]

Hey... Hey, you're not gonna lose me. Okay? Me, or...Elda, either. We're too stubborn to leave you alone.

[ She and Elda don't see eye-to-eye on several things, but this one...well, she knows otherwise. ]

[...Those are words that Sayaka's definitely needed to hear. She's been paranoid enough--between Elda thinking like that and some of Sayaka's own worries in regards to the subject...she needed to hear that. She really, really needed to hear that from Alex.

She's definitely enjoying the hand through her hair, too, if the way she kind of...almost melts, there, is any indication.]

...Thank you. Thank you, I...I don't want to be left alone...

[There's...a very small sniffle, there. God, knowing that they're both just...going to try to keep being there, it's making her feel so much guilt for--]

I'm sorry. I'm...I'm really sorry, I...

[ Alex nudges her with her head; what it really looks more like, then, is nuzzling up against her, with her head on Sayaka's shoulder. ]

What're you apologizing for, dummy? No one...wants to be alone. [ At least... ] If- if they do, I haven't met 'em.

...I was considering hurting someone for the motive.

[She says it simply, while Alex nuzzles into her. She doesn't move much, just...kind of going rigid.]

[ ...There's what she was suspecting. There's...the thing she thought, immediately. Does it make her a bad person for it, for thinking of Sayaka like that...?

If it helps. Alex doesn't pull away. If anything, she holds tighter. ]

I don't blame you for that. I can't.

...Were you...?

[...she hates the fact that she honestly wasn't surprised by that, but considering what Elda was thinking? No, somehow she can't be surprised.

Still, she doesn't have the right to judge, and likewise holds a bit tighter. She's a twig, but she won't snap, at the least.]

...I think you'd be hardpressed to find someone who wasn't, even for a second. The...leaving everyone behind, that's a...even if you can get up the urge to. After all these weeks, there's someone...at least one someone, who you...feel strongly for.

[ Love. Care for. Can't leave. ]

So, I... I think, even for a second...everyone thought of it. ...I know I did...before I realized I couldn't do that.

...I have three. At...minimum.

[Sayaka mutters that much, already feeling the wave of disgust wash over her. It's horrible to think like this, and she's still got what Hilda wrote her on her mind.]

That girl, she...said the arrangement was for one person only. That's...I don't know if that's the only thing that made me not consider it, but...I don't think I could do this, either.

[ ... ]

I...have a few too. More than one. And I know, I couldn't leave the others behind, and-- I couldn't do that...to someone.

[ "Hey, I did this for you, wanna have the guilt of 14 other people's lives in your heart forever?" Yeah, no. ]

This one's... They just wanna make us choose. Again and again and again... It's just like the others. I- ...you gotta tell yourself that.

...I'm not going to do this. I...I won't leave you all alone. I like you all too much for that. I...you. You.

[...Because that totally makes sense.

She knows it doesn't, and she...well, kisses express this sort of thing better than what she generally could. Have another on the forehead, girl.]

...If worst comes to worst, I'm...trusting Elda to make sure I go to sleep, before I try to hurt someone.

[ Trust Elda to? Alex almost says that out loud, but- no, no. ...She trusts that Elda wouldn't want to put Sayaka through that. That's what she trusts.

She kisses back, just a small one on Sayaka's nose. ]

Good. I just... I want you to take care of yourself...and not do something you'd regret. For your sake, okay?

[...God, she wants to just...

No, Sayaka restrains herself. She smiles, just a bit.]

...I'll do my best. I promise, Alex.

[ ...Another little kiss, at that, on the lips. ]

Okay. I...don't wanna lose you, either.

Week 7.

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