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

[lovelikeyou]

[Well, that was an exhausting shitshow. Rose is upset, but not in one of the ways that would make her avoid people, really. So even though she's not exactly Rhea's biggest fan, she goes along to the meeting anyhow. It's not like she's going to start a fight; she can't stomach any more fighting today.

At the bar, she isn't terribly interested in the drinks. She doesn't even grab a seat, choosing instead to sit on the floor leaning back against a curled-up Lion and absentmindedly continuing her latest crochet project. You need something distracting to do with your hands, you know?

Late in the evening, once people start filing out, she goes to sit in the garden instead. It's peaceful here.]

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[ladygeryon]

[Nira's got a non-alcoholic fruit drink, and she moves over to sit next to Rose, leaning against a similarly curled-up Aria.]

I wonder how much faith she really had in everyone being brought back, and how much of that was further self-justification. [She already had the "save the world" vs "spare these few people" balance going on, after all.]

[lovelikeyou]

We only found out about that on Wednesday night.

[So if she'd been planning it for a while...]

[ladygeryon]

That's true...but it still makes me wonder if she let it erase any of her last hesitations.

[lovelikeyou]

Maybe. But even if it did, it was only a chance. Maybe he won't be able to do it.

[ladygeryon]

Yeah...it's good to know we have some way to communicate, but I'm not banking on them actually coming back. [Even the miracles that can revive the dead have a time limit between initial death and unrevivability.]

[lovelikeyou]

[This has generally been Rose's experience as well.]

It's probably better not to get our hopes up.

[ladygeryon]

Definitely. I'll be happy enough if we manage to keep in contact with them while we're here and they don't end up trapped in some kind of purgatory when we leave.

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose doesn't really know what a purgatory is, but she can figure it out from context clues more or less.]

That would be nice. I don't...do humans usually do this when they die?

[ladygeryon]

There's stories, and some Ghost-types seem to have memories of being human in some way, but generally...once someone dies, if they're not revived in time, their soul's just...gone, somewhere they can't communicate anymore. I don't believe they just disappear...but also stuff like this is usually the stuff of scary stories, not something that just happens in plain sight.

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[thieviusraccoonus]

[Sly approaches with drink in hand, gaze slipping from Rose to the lion, to what Rose is busying her hands with.]

Hoping you and your lion don't mind a little company. [He's... weary.] That was ... a lot, huh?

[lovelikeyou]

It was. How are you feeling?

[The lion lifts his head to sort of sniff towards the raccoon, because that's unusual, but he loses interest pretty quickly.]