into each breaking wave

[thisaroma]

[ Well, that was — no pun intended — unfortunate. ...But in light of what they already saw happen the first two weeks, maybe it's not really that surprising, either; and maybe it's at least a little easier to recognize when something is going to be a lost cause, if not necessarily to accept it.

In spite of everything, this is the first time Decus has been in a halfway decent mood after a trial, which he can gather is... probably not the case for most of the rest. So he figures he can take on the party host duties for this week rather than push it onto someone who needs a break. Anyway, he wants to keep up this feeling-okay thing for as long as he can, and if he has too much downtime and starts to think about what happened a week ago today... he might end up a little less okay.

So, he brings some food down to the buffet from the cafes for a little variety (even though most of them probably aren't going to be too picky at this point), along with some tea and cocoa from Starbucks and a few harder options from the bar, and gets that all set up in as welcoming an arrangement as he can manage. And...

Well. Despite how he may come off sometimes, he actually is self-aware enough to realize that some of the others might not appreciate being reminded that he's still alive when three people who'd never had any intention of killing are dead. It doesn't really bother him, but he doesn't want to create unnecessary drama, either; so he doesn't put his name anywhere on the invitations he puts up around the place, just a simple:

food and drinks at the buffet

...Which is almost always the case, technically, this past week excluded, but hey.

And while he might come by to offer a drink or something to someone who looks like they need it, he's mostly going to hang back and let everyone do their thing. ]

Comments

[silentscout]

Because you're hiding and it makes it obvious?

[jibunwo]

I'm doing what I should have done from the start. It was pointless to let any of you act as though it matters whether or not you can see my face.

[silentscout]

[He frowns a little at that, but it's not because he's angry. It's more because he's confused.]

Why do you think it doesn't matter?

[jibunwo]

Because it doesn't. None of you need to know who I am, and there's no point in acting as though any of us are actually friends here. We just have to survive long enough to kill Jack and get out, and then we can all go our separate ways for the rest of our lives.

[silentscout]

Why does it matter if we're not friends? We don't hate each other, and we're cooperating with each other. That's enough, right?

[jibunwo]

...This is what we're calling 'cooperating' now? We're half-dead and limping our way through disaster after disaster while barely managing to get through.

[silentscout]

But we're alive. And as long as we're alive, we can keep going.

[He debates sharing more. Zero has heard a little bit of Lalli's past, but he was also in a much better mood that day.]

...

This is bad, but it's not the worst I've seen before. And sometimes I forget that not everyone has lived what I have, so that this really does seem like the worst. So that's why I'm saying we'll make it. We just have to keep going. It's only over when you stop moving and die.