unknownseas | THE LAST WEEK

You wake up with Saturday gone, but... not entirely forgotten. In the same way things seem to be breaking down in the facility, things beyond what you know are starting to fail as well. You get flashes of an unfamiliar room, a groggy sense of timelessness... and then you're back to reality in your beds. It's Sunday.

There are no new locations to unlock this week. You actually find yourself down some - Area D has flooded completely, and the groaning on the doors to the other areas indicates that perhaps the flooding won't stop there. Someone, however, seems to have taken all the memorials (except for poor Zelos-David, god rest his soul) and moved them to the Lounge "overnight." There's a handwritten note on top of all of them, which simply reads "Thought you guys would rather have these than not. :)"

While you obviously won't run into Angel anywhere, use of the Ouija or pestering of the new Assistant are still more than permitted! Otherwise get your affairs in order, get ready, and brace for impact, because one way or another? The end is coming.

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to your final week! Make sure to check in and read up on endgame here, and don't forget to turn in any and all remaining threads you can over here! The final pull for regains will be conducted Wednesday night, and then... well, endgame approaches! Arms and legs inside the vehicle, we're near the end of the ride! You've all gotten so close and done so well! ]

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[ She peers around him, just a little bit. ]

Did...you light all of those?

...Yeah.

[della are we going to try to get him to talk about feelings again]

[ MAYBE

She easily walks down the aisle between the pews. ]

Good. Means I don't have to get a box or something to do some myself. I can just use these...if you don't mind?

I don't mind.

[...]

I told Rin that I've always thought memorials are kind of stupid. I don't think this has changed that thought much.

Hm. So...why the candles, then?

[......]

Wanted to see if it would, I guess.

[ Oh. ]

...Does it feel...empty, or something?

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

[He does, at least, have the general decency to seem frustrated with that.]

I get that it's not supposed to feel like that. But it doesn't feel like a whole lot of anything. Al dying didn't feel like much either, though, so it's not like this is a surprise.

I mean...

[ Della takes a seat at one of the pews. ]

Memorials are more...for the living. Much as we want to say they're for them, it's...it's more for us. If this doesn't...do anything for you, you can't really force it.

Oh, definitely. I know better than to think that Al cares about what I do for him after the fact. I've seen where...well, where they say he's buried once. Didn't really bother going back after that.

It's the same way with everyone here. I doubt they care, because they're kind of too dead for that. So I get that it's not really for them, in the end.

...Do you think they're still here? Like...like the board said. I've met ghosts--hell, someone who helped raise me is a ghost, but- ...Do you think there's a chance?

...Maybe. I actually don't...

[Mnngh.]

This is going to sound weird coming from the guy who created the zombie apocalypse, I know, but supernatural stuff is kind of beyond me.

You're right. That does sound kinda weird.

[ Della. ]

But, that's sort of better, you know? I jump to that kinda conclusion, so someone who's more...inexperienced, that's a good perspective to have.

Zombies have perfectly reasonable scientific explanations. Ghosts get into stuff like whether we have a soul or not. Purely metaphysical.

[So yeah.]

It's another one of those bridges we'll cross when we get to it, I guess.

Not any of the zombies I've met, but alright, I'll roll with it.

[ She's met... Of course she has. ]

We've got a lotta those bridges. ...And it looks like we'll be crossing them sooner rather than later.

Maybe I'll explain it to you sometime. Just know that with ours, there's nobody actually piloting the body anymore. Reanimating a body is a lot easier when you're not having to worry about dragging the passenger back to life with it.

[...he really loves his work, okay]

I'm a bit concerned about all that, I'm not going to try to pretend that I'm not. But at this point, there's not a whole lot we can do about it. I think I've gone so far into stressed I've come out the other side.

...Eh, might as well listen to the expert.

[ She actually laughs a bit, though it's pretty dry. ]

You know, that's something I have much knowledge of. Can't be devoured by the endless darkness of the universe if you've wrapped back to zen. [ ..... ] Or, like, the endless darkness of the ocean, in this case.

Trust me, it's something I envy, almost. Not that it happens, but the whole...managing to be zen in the face of everything going to shit. Never been a strength I have.

[ She shrugs, putting her feet up on the pew. Definitely in with the higher powers. ]

Life's gonna go wrong. Like...a lot. I guess I just got good at rolling with the punches, at some point.

Hey, come on, no need to sell yourself short. Like you're not the one keeping half of us sane around here somehow.

Don't ask how that happened. [ ... ] Ema... She said something like that. In...thing she left me. About...being a heart. It's been sticking around, since.

But, I'm not doing anything really...special. At least, nothing I'm trying to do. All I want to do is get home.

Yeah, well. She told me to make sure you're doing all right, for what it's worth. That's not why I do it, for reference's sake, but she did seem aware that you're going to try to do everything yourself whether you mean to or not.

[ Awkward, strained laugh. ]

Heh... I...did mean, I don't really have anything to hide. Heart, sleeve, that whole thing. I don't... [ She sighs and focuses her gaze more on a small tapestry. The Greek tableau, except they're like. Mostly all birds, like her. ] Doing it all myself. That was just something I got used to, too.

Well, yeah. If you don't have anyone else to rely on, you rely on yourself.

[He gets it, of goddamn course he does.]

We'll figure something out. One way or another.

...We will. [ She sighs, and that moment of distance is gone. Like she's snapped herself out of it. ] That's never been in doubt. And- oh!

[ Della shoots up, nodding to herself. ]

Actually. Related to that. I need a favor.

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