unknownseas | SIXTH TRIAL

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trial,
week seven

SIXTH TRIAL

[ It's the same as the other weeks. Two bodies, some time to look, and then Davy Jones comes around to take those of you who are left into the theatre and into the elevator. His expression is dark, difficult to read.

The trip down feels slower than ever. The elevator has gotten so empty, don't you think?

As it reaches its usual destination, the crew of the Dutchman is performing once again. The clouds above have started to darken the once clear tropical waters.

The podiums await you. ]

At yer places! Find who is responsible for all of this!

[ Your numbers can't support many more weeks of this, can they?

Welcome to your sixth trial. ]

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...So you would really kill me. Just like that.

[She's like. Well. She expects it.]

Those children are everything to me. I became a wicked woman to save them. I'm sorry.

[Beat.]

I wasn't lying when I said I had my eyes on someone... though you'll see the truth to that soon enough, I suppose.

...I forgive you.

[She does. Even if now, because of her...because they had to survive, as many of them as possible...]

[She pauses.]

...Thank you.

[She has one more thing to say:]

There was once a fierce demon with thousands of children. She loved them all but she had to kill the children of humans to feed them. Eventually it's said that she eventually changed her ways and became a goddess protector of children. [She pauses.] Hariti...

Hariti, her name was. I was like her except I'll never be redeemed. I wonder if it's too late.

...I shall not forget. And. I think...there will be time, somehow. For redemption.

[Beyond the reach of the living. Maybe where Calypso is.]

I just. I hope...your maiden's heart will not go unrequited.