un: c.gorgon 11/1

[radnarok]

[ Early Monday evening, a series of posts go up on the network. ]

@ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell

where are you? i don't understand this letter. if I wasn't supposed to read it yet, im sorry.

[ Twenty minutes later... ]

@ s.meanswell i think you forgot to come back and destroy it. you said you'd do that. hello hello. can you please respond?

...daisies don't even grow at this school steeephanie. i'm not making you a grave. its not funny. im not laughing.

[ Ten minutes later... ]

@ s.meanswell @ s.meanswell im reading the letter again. i don't like it. you need to explain it to me or im not going to shut up! why are you talking about your life like this? one persons life for another...you don't need to save anyone! i'm fine! ishimaru is fine! nene...noah... hiro... blah blah blah i don't care! who cares if everyones murdering eachother. thats not our problem!

i dont want a happy ending. i don't like endings at all. i don't know how to deal with them. so where are you?

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[hanaban]

[ ... ]

He~h... What's this about a letter, Yashiro? Do you have it with you?

[mermaidcursed]

( she shakes her head, but pulls up crona's repost of it. )

... What does she mean, Hanako-kun?

( it's a question... but it's also not. )

[hanaban]

[ It takes him a bit to read it, opting for letting Nene hold onto the PDA while he hangs off her shoulders and reads over them.

... ]

...Of course she didn't lsiten. This sounds like a kid running off to get eaten so a monster doesn't eat everybody else, doesn't it?

[ ...stupid. stupid, stupid, how could he be so—- ]

[mermaidcursed]

( why is he- what does that even MEAN, what does he know and why won't he ever tell her?! that creeping anxiety feels heavier, like there's a pit in her stomach and her skin's crawling even worse- )

Hanako-kun, what do you know?

[hanaban]

Ahaha... Have some faith in her! She said she's going to get all of us a happy ending, after all.

[ oh boy, okay. He's actually going to leave now ]

[mermaidcursed]

( ohhhhhh my god, ooooooooooooooooooooooh my goooooooooooooooooooood she is going to break someone's nose one of these days- yogen as a whole is soooooooo lucky she really only talks to people she likes and therefore will not break in half over her leg like the sticks they are. you think you can ditch her, ghost boy? think again, she's following you! )

Just where are you going? And- just where do you get off anyways?! You never tell me anything, even at times like this! Even when I'm asking!

[hanaban]

[ ... ]

You're worried about her, right? So I'm going to go find her.

[ maybe to bring her back and maybe not, maybe to wait and see what happens, ]

I talked to her about Boundaries, that's all. If she's found herself in one... she shouldn't be dead.

[mermaidcursed]

Then- shouldn't I come with? I'm your assistant, after all.

[hanaban]

[ HER FACE it makes him laugh, turning around to pat her head, shh, shhh ]

Of course you're coming with me! But we've got to give these little guys some time to find her first, okay? Heroes have to have patience, after all!

[ His lil soul orbs... they're going to go the scouting ]

[mermaidcursed]

... You've been going off without me so often, I was starting to think you might have forgotten.

( yes she is absolutely pouting. but fine, she won't swat the headpats away.

this time. )

... You didn't answer me, by the way. About the other things.

[hanaban]

You've been making friends here, and I'm not going to pull you away from all of that. But I'll still ask you when I need you.

[ which, OKAY, maybe hasn't been at all, but this also isn't his school; he can't just waltz in and slice things up and solve everybody's problems that way. the monsters in this school aren't so tangible ]

Do you remember how you found Boundaries before?

[mermaidcursed]

( ... so he hasn't needed her at all. and yet, she pulled him from his mission and trapped him in purgatory with her. ... )

Through rumors of the seven mysteries. But I've barely heard anything like that here. ( i remember asking like, ages ago and then there wasn't really an answer that i recall cries in poor memory- ) ... The only one I heard was the one that let me summon you here.