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unknownseas2020-04-25 04:00 pm
lovelikeyou) wrote in unknownseas2020-04-25 04:00 pm
I have died every day waiting for you
[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.]
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.]
gathering
I'm not drinking this. [ And she sets down a mug of
hot chocolateweirdly browner than usual tea on the table with a thud. Unnecessarily, she adds: ] It's warm.[ With her hands free, she snatches the paper up and holds it at face level. Her eyes narrow, but she kind of has to squint to read all the stupid tiny words anyway; otherwise, there's no shift in expression. ]
Looks like you beat me there.
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[ Of course she's sure, but... Mira draws in a breath as she watches Jasper read the letter. She looks away, then reaches for the mug and just kind of wraps her hands around it. ]
She... gave me her room key. It's the first place I went, after all of that.
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[ Is what she says, because there's nothing to say — or, more accurately, nothing Jasper can say.
I didn’t want to hurt anyone. But I did, and I’m gone now, so there’s not much else I can do except implore you all not to let this happen again.
She makes one of her tch noises, but it's very low, almost under her breath. It's going to happen again. She doesn't say that. ]
I figured she might have left something behind — after the way it happened. [ And now she's reading the instructions for Mira. Sure enough, it all checks out. Whether or not she was trying to win, the larger part of Alice must have known she wouldn't make it out of the trial alive. ] She really trusted you.