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

[ladygeryon]

Pretty likely. I haven't gone through what she has, so I can't say how desperate I'd be...I won't claim I could be stronger than her, but I wouldn't have had deflected so hard even after it became obvious.

[nothingcanstop]

...We'll never know now. Thinking about what-if's....there's no point in it. Isn't that what all this taught us?

[ladygeryon]

Yeah, sounds like it. Yet somehow no one seems to learn the lesson that killing someone and not getting caught isn't going to happen here.

[nothingcanstop]

Desperation does weird things to the mind. Make you think you can do anything. Even if you can't.

[ladygeryon]

Hah. She managed to get all the way to setting up that whole scene without getting caught, after all. Guess she was just coasting on momentum after that.

[nothingcanstop]

I...understand why they fight so hard, mostly. After doing all that, after...killing someone with your own hands, giving up... It probably looks harder. More scary.

[ladygeryon]

...probably. I can't say I've experienced that personally, but I've seen similar sentiments in others. Someone desperate will cling to any lifeline they might be able to find, even if it's just to delay things.

[nothingcanstop]

I'd say we're all a little desperate in some ways. She was angry. Her desperation came out in...that way.

[ladygeryon]

[Nira nods.] Everyone's different in how they express such things. I'm personally focusing all my anger on the Professor. Once we finally meet face to face and there's no more danger of his punishments, I'm going to let it all-out-on-him. [She punctuates those last words with several violent sword jabs in the game.]

[nothingcanstop]

Save some for me too. I have some things I want to pay him back for.

[ladygeryon]

Oh don't worry, I will. Long as you leave enough to drag to the authorities.