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[starrypoint]

Who: Subaru & Rantarou
What: (sweating) so what're you doing up here
When: 9/15, but Before the family meet. skipping class
Where: fourth floor, right side
Warnings: none right now


[subaru has to go up this way when he's preparing for the S5 meetings he plans to hold once a week minimum, since it's sort of hard to lug telescopes through a window, so he's gotten used to the sight of the cleared hallway, the skeleton of something that was once there and no longer, the rocks piled up on either side...

it's still creepy in a way, like. they could totally do a test of courage up here some night!!!! that'd be so cool!!!!! actually, they could totally dress this place up more around halloween and—

anyway. he's hanging around with a notebook and pen today, resting his back on one of the more solid frameworks of a classroom, star chart rolled out beside him as he notes coordinates and the like for a future viewing... this is a perfectly good reason to skip class today.

... he doesn't really want to go and act normal, with the thought of talking about what was found in the pool only a few nights ago weighing in the corner of his mind. acting normal so far has sucked.]

Comments

[starrypoint]

She seemed mad that we didn't remember any of that. Or that the others — mostly everyone who dies — their souls are in the big tree out there.

[the wisteria, he means.]

"Sometimes you die and your soul is reborn anew, given another chance at life. Sometimes you're beyond help and you cease to exist."

And sometimes you're in limbo because a couple of teens decided to ask you question they oughta know the answers to already. [...] Third years don't usually get to repeat, though, unless the president's contract says so.

[so.

don't die. (:]

[sisters]

Oh...

( ... )

So it is like that.

( he'd had suspicions — had expressed them to someone before, but they didn't quite hold. had nothing to confirm them, and so he had to move on in uncertainty. in any case, it's not news to him that he's dead, but he knows... that it must be a hard fact for someone else to come to terms with. especially... the ones who are younger, safer, with their whole lives to live ahead of them.

it's not that amami isn't upset, it's just...

...

he breathes a heavy sigh. )

Got it. Sorry for making you dredge all that up, but... it's pretty important to know. It helps a lot, actually.

[starrypoint]

S'okay. Kinda nice having someone else know.

[now he can safely repress it again.]

I kinda hoped that I would've been able to travel the world before I died, [the single tally mark ever present on his wrist, unhealing and sore to the constant touch he gives it when he's alone,] but I guess something happened in the jungle.

[assuming that how they end up in this purgatory is death,]

[sisters]

Yeah...

( he wants to apologize. for what, he's not sure, but... the weight of this knowledge slowly begins to settle on him, running a hand through his hair as his mind begins to race through all of the things this means. for him. for the people he's come to care about here.

this sucks.

but he'll swallow it down, meet subaru's gaze with an apologetic smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes — they don't often do. )

I get it. There was... something important that I needed to do, too. But I guess it makes sense why everyone wants to graduate now.

( at least they've figured out the first half of step one: why they're here. )

[starrypoint]

[yeah no joke. the lack of it reaching amami's eyes is something that's familiar to subaru, actually, because he's seen it on others before (eichi, for example, as a midorikawa character,) and he points at him with his pen--]

We're totally screwed if we don't. Now you've definitely gotta attend class, 'cause even if this school's weird you don't wanna be held back just 'cause you skipped!

[he wouldn't be surprised if that's the one thing that stays the same.




and then they both proceed to skip several days in a row later but look, that's different.]