but even if the stars and moon collide [afterparty]

[allatonce]

[Well, that sucked!

After about an hour, invitations written in colorful ink appear under everyone's doors.]

Understandable if you're not up to it, but we're having a memorial and "don't wanna be alone" hang-out in the restaurant again.

[The restaurant has very much been decorated with the most rainbow fabric she could find in the department store. Jonathan got roped in, mainly so she could make sure he was doing okay, but also because she assumed that he knew how to put a tablecloth on a table. He seemed like the type, anyway.

After consulting with Undertaker, most of the food that's been set out is more traditional Chinese funeral food than Victorian—you can get a whole roast duck in the restaurant—but she tried for a mix of things. There is fruit, the aforementioned roast duck, and several vegetarian dishes along with potatoes for some reason and... cookies? Okay then.

Joy's trying, because that was way less terrible for her than it was for basically anyone else.

Happy Pride Wrath, New Rapture!]

Comments

[visiblepattern]

It was. I didn't know him as well as some others here, but I could tell that much from what little I did know.

[hotpaprika]

He was so nice. He was always so quick to help out those in need, he let me sleep with him when he learned that I stay up all night.

[He smiles, bittersweet.]

He more than earned his title as a knight.

[visiblepattern]

It certainly sounds that way, yes.

[He sighs a bit. Has some more of the tea.]

He didn't deserve anything that happened to him.

[hotpaprika]

He did not.

... None of us do, truthfully. [Except maybe Seo] Fontaine is a cruel monster for even fancying such a plot.

[There is another pause as he stares out into the pool.]

I pray we can... no, we will find find a way to stop Fontaine's wicked ways.

[visiblepattern]

We will. I refuse to believe that we're just going to die here.

[...That's probably the best he's sounded for this whole discussion.]

We're... Well, we're likely to lose more, before that day comes. But I believe that it will come.

[hotpaprika]

[He nods, letting himself smile briefly.]

Certainly. We need to remind ourselves that no matter how grim the situation is, we still outnumber our foes, and Fontaine cannot hide any weakness from us forever.

We just... simply need to keep ourselves from falling into despair as we look for those weaknesses. The moment we do fall, that's when he wins.

[He's saying this as much to Forrest as he is saying this to himself.]