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.]

Comments

[archboxer]

[...Huh. She doesn't like that. It's not as if her expressions aren't always honest but the one thing you could say about her was that she was an emotional person, even if she tried to be one of reason.

They were similar yet not.]

It could be one or the other or both. The flow of time is a strange thing. It might simply be that his fate is to exist in this monstrous way to test us as much as a disaster might.

[blackmass]

A fascinating possibility. But I wonder this: if it is his nature, are the acts committed his fault, or is he acting as he was made? Can one blame the hurricane for the devastation left in its path?

[archboxer]

Certainly one could blame the hurricane. It is not a question of 'can' but whether one should. Who is to blame for a famine, after all? Is it the drought for ruining the land or the farmers who were not prepared for said drought?

[blackmass]

It was the drought which ruined the land, as you say. But one can not ask a drought if it acts maliciously or does only as it is meant.

[archboxer]

No, certainly one cannot. The farmer may blame other things--his workers, providence, his neighbors for cursing him--but in the end it was the drought.