I tried to get through to you

[archboxer]

[You know what that was? A fiasco. That was an utter fiasco. Three more people gone on a chance that may not happen! This is horrible. Even if some people dislike her, Rhea... is up to the challenge once more. This time she does it nearly herself: writing out the invitations, ordering the food and telling everyone to meet at the bar. In Ema's honor, of course.

She hands out the invitations herself and if she can't find you, she'll slide yours under your door.]

Comments

[emberserker]

Let's get to that, then. No one else seems to be around at this point anyway.

[archboxer]

Should I get a knife, then?

[Or do you want to do a vampirism?]

[emberserker]

I can handle that.

[Anna gets up and grabs the nearest sharp object. Sorry about your ice tongs, bar, now she's slicing open her scab with it, wincing as she does.]

Gk -- there.

[archboxer]

You... [Man, you are so thirsty for her blood.] Ah. I cannot fault your eagerness... I brought more this time, as well. If you need more...

[emberserker]

[Anna drops the tongs and holds her arm with a hiss.]

I want to do things the right way. That's all.

[archboxer]

[Tongs? Caught. She'll need to wash these later. She'll take a towel from the bar.] We all do, Anna. Just... hold still. I am going to do this several times.

[Time to dump the blood on the towel.]

[emberserker]

[She breathes in and nods, bracing herself against the table.]

Go ahead. I can handle that much.

[archboxer]

[She moves in close, pressing the bloodied towel against Anna's cut.]

I apologize... if I had the proper equipment we could do it more effectively.

[emberserker]

It isn't your fault we've got to improvise in here. Though I agree syringes would be more useful, or whatever your world's got.

[archboxer]

They do.

[Probably??? Dragon tech is weird.]

[emberserker]

I've got to wonder about this place's priorities, with the rooms we're getting instead.

[Distraction from pain? Maybe. Who knows with this girl.]

[archboxer]

They do say idle are evil's playthings.

[Probably! Hopefully. Rhea... is kind of worried about Anna. Please don't corrupt Mira with your strange ways.

[emberserker]

In that case, you'd think he'd have added fewer amusements.

[archboxer]

He can easily take them away.

[emberserker]

You think that'll be the next motive?

[archboxer]

Perhaps. He may just cut off all food supplies as well.

[emberserker]

Let's hope we haven't given him ideas.

[archboxer]

He already used hunger against us.

[emberserker]

Against one of us. I have to wonder how many of those motives were really just trying to target one person, or if it was only that one.

[archboxer]

That was mixed in with a motive that gained a lot of reactions from other people. [Like Therion and Rin.] So even that I doubt was just targeting Alice. After all, if she revealed her nature... [Rhea's still holding the towel but she nods towards the bottle with the rest of it's contents.] She could have gotten sustenance before it got to the point where she lost control. The other motives were the same: multiple people seemed to consider it.

After all, Della seemed to consider the last one before she asked for clarification.

[emberserker]

That's true, and Vincent seemed thrown by it, too. As for me, any regret I might have, I'll fix myself.

[archboxer]

Of course, Anna. Yet we can see in the other weeks that the trend continues. Even on the first motive I considered it.

[emberserker]

The secret. Your identity, then?

[archboxer]

'Seiros formed a cult to revive her mother.'

[It's word for word and... the disdain is clear from her voice.]

[emberserker]

I see. ...She must have been good to you, for you to go that far.