I have died every day waiting for you

[lovelikeyou]

[That was, in Rose's opinion, even worse than last week. Any loss of life is an awful waste, but for it all to come of some horrible accident...

This week, she doesn't retreat back to her room. She knows now that the people here, or at least enough of them, like to gather after these experiences. Many of the Crystal Gems were the same way; she remembers their post-battle huddles well. It's not a party, really, but...it's good to be together. To have friends around. Maybe, to remember those who were lost.

So this time, she'll go to the cafeteria herself and request some food for everyone. It's just basic snacks, the kind of human food she knows well enough to ask for. There's some hot chocolate provided, too. She definitely knows people enjoy that. It doesn't take too long, since she isn't making most of it, and then she goes to invite everybody she can find.

She doesn't slip any notes underneath doors, for the people she doesn't happen across. Some Crystal Gems didn't join the groups, or maybe did after one battle but not another. Sometimes they wanted to be alone. She never really understood that...but it wasn't her place to tell them otherwise. Weren't they all about freedom?

Everybody probably knows something like this is going to happen again, anyway. It's their choice to come.]

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[snackooed]

[ ...Ah. ]

Well, er, there's no sense in just wasting it. Maybe I can throw some ice in it or something...

[ She looks a little sheepish, to have let it sit for that long. ]

[emberserker]

[She stares at the cup and thinks of pouring buckets of ice into a bathtub and boiling the water with nothing but rage.]

This place thrives on being frustrating. Much like its proprietor.

[snackooed]

Frustrating is definitely a word for it.

[ She's rubbing at her temples again... ]

It's such an impossible scenario...I really can't say I blame everyone for feeling some type of way, after today.

[emberserker]

Which part's impossible? Because if you answer "all of it," yes, but everything seems to be possible to someone at this rate.

[snackooed]

The fact that he's taken action like this is the particularly impossible part, to me.

[ Though "all of it" would also be a valid answer-- ]

I had thought that if we tackled this as a team, we wouldn't have a body on our hands. But I think it would've taken an absolutely herculean amount of camaraderie to keep something from happening this week, and it happened right under our noses...

[emberserker]

His excuse for withholding requests was that we'd gotten complacent, wasn't it? Even though someone had died.

[snackooed]

And to think that we all scoffed at the blood money...

[ She can't help but huff. Maybe if she had read the room a little better, she would've caught something... ]

It sucks, to have been so thoroughly had.

[emberserker]

You think we were fooled? We made it out of that courtroom alive.

[snackooed]

We did. But we're down a fifth of our number, now, after this week. And I want to be optimistic and keep thinking that somehow, someway, we can turn it around, but...

Well, if it were that easy, we wouldn't be in this mess, I suppose. I just hate feeling like I can't do anything other than move with the current. And I want to be good for more than prodding at bodies here...

[emberserker]

You know, if you really want to investigate more than just bodies, then make yourself useful elsewhere. There are puzzles and keys and messages all over this deathtrap, aren't there?

[snackooed]

It's not as though I've just been sitting around twiddling my thumbs, but for now, you're definitely right that that's the best we can do, on an investigative level.

[ She finally brings her coffee to her lips...and makes a face at the taste, that she's trying pretty hard not to let show-- ]

With any luck, there'll be a new area, just like last week. Hopefully that'll give us something else to work with, right?

[emberserker]

I'm sure it will. It's there for a reason, after all, whatever that might be.