countermeasures | chroma | catchall for kashuu kiyomitsu

Well...

[at least it wasn't a goat...

jiuqing is not insensitive enough to say that, but she doesn't really know what to say. still, it feels - right, almost, that the swords were the ones to be able to move and take the monster danny had become down.]

...you - were you hurt at all, in that fight...?

[He shakes his head.]

Not really. ...The aim wasn't to injure us, I think. [That creature had just. Wanted to get away, which, hm. Makes it worse in many ways! But it's fine.] Just a few bruises and a little burning, but Yasusada already patched me up.

[He thinks about how unlucky the three had been when they went up against the monster that used to be Malik. PHEW. ...Wow, Roxana really did go see him in hell after all of that, huh.]

...I wasn't expecting the centipede.

[HE WAS EXPECTING A GOAT.]

[I'M CRYING. WE REALLY LET ROXANA GO TO HELL.]

...I'm glad you're alright.

[it was frustrating, to only be able to watch - but then, sundays are generally full of watching. it's rare that they can really impact the outcome of anything, and maybe that's just how it is, but that doesn't mean she has to like it.]

I wasn't, either. I did wonder about... him... but I wasn't expecting him to change so quickly, and I didn't think it would be that form.

[SHE SUNK STRAIGHT THROUGH THE FLOORBOARDS OUT OF OUR HANDS.]

Mm. Thanks, Jiuqing. I'm glad everyone else made it outta there okay, too.

[One simply never knows, with the way Sundays tend to work. He's not a fan of feeling helpless either, but there's still a type of helplessness even in this.]

...Same, though. About the form, anyway. I was kinda wondering, after Clarte...

[Was saved, considering what happened after Percy was saved. Oof! Two for two! Though, like that's reminded him of something:] --Ah, did you get any letters?

[ROXANAAAAAAA]

...Clarte said that - it was a gumball that saved them, and a gumball that saved Percy, but that according to Shale, being saved and the transformations had nothing to do with each other.

[so, there's that.]

I... didn't get any, no. [she looks a little troubled by that] But I heard that some people have. Did you?

[A weird coincidence, and his nose wrinkles a little, but he trusts Shale so he just nods.]

Okay... That's good to know, at least.

[He also reaches out and lightly touches her hand when he sees that troubled look. Her het problems.]

I did, yeah, and I've heard from some others. A lot of 'em said similar things, though: that we gotta start changing things up, but just plain destroying stuff isn't the right way to go about it. We wanna get more stuff like the void hole thing in the music room, though... They also said don't touch that stuff when it opens up, which, like. Duh. Apparently Dreamer's plan is destruction but Thinker says we could try for transformation instead? [...] Ah - Chinatsu said she misses you, too.

[THEIR METALLIC ROOMIES!!!]

And a few of 'em talked about how we wanna get the residents to start seeing the prism as a problem. Buzen said we did a good job with Steel. But honestly, I think the rest are already coming around, too.

[the other weird coincidence is someone has turned into a monster at execution both weeks jiuqing got turned into a monster on a cyoa...

also why are you assigning her het problems help]

...I miss her, too. I hope we get to see her again soon... and the others.

[...]

I think they are too. I sort of get the impression that out of all of them, it would be hardest to change Steel's mind. So... if what we did on Wednesday made a difference, that's a step in the right direction.

[Jiuqing is the goat-bringer... also i didn't do that hei did]

Mm. I hope so, too.

[THEIR DEAD!! He misses them... But he nods at that, and he's feeling a little more heartened in general.]

Yeah. I get the feeling that it's moving things forward... It's not gonna be easy, but it's more direction than we've had in ages.

[you're the one who put it in your meta text?!]

Whatever comes... we'll be ready to face it.

[pushes hei into the line of fire anyway,,]

... [He's not sure about being ready to face it exactly, but.] Well. We'll adapt, one way or another, like we always have.

[ratshakes you]

Yes. We've come too far not to adapt to whatever is next, now.

[...a moment's pause, and then - ]

Kashuu, could you do me a favor? If you've heard that Sir Chang has written to someone, could you let me know? [(me closing my eyes because this will look like het problems but i swear it's not)] ...both other times we found letters, he'd written to me, but it doesn't seem to be the case this time. But, he's not the sort of person to sit back and do nothing, especially not at a point like this, so he must have written to someone else, right?

[NOOO see it was het nonsense anyway--

But that actually does have him looking pretty concerned?? CHANG GENG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.]

Oh, woah... That is weird. Um-- yeah, no problem. I'll definitely let you know if anyone else mentions a letter from him. I haven't heard of one so far, but I only just started talking to people about theirs.

[Though frankly he doesn't know why Chang Geng would suddenly choose to write to someone else if he'd been writing to Jiuqing so often, so he's like, WHAT IF NO ONE HAS A LETTER FROM HIM WHERE IS HE.]

[IT WASN'T HET NONSENSE SHE'S JUST WORRIED BECAUSE THE PATTERN WAS BROKEN!!]

Thank you. I'm sure it's nothing, and I'm just worrying for no reason, but... it would put my mind at ease if I knew someone had heard from him.

[het nonsense.......... you can't hide from me britt

But he will just nod, giving her hand a lil pat-pat-pat.]

Yeah, I totally get you. I'll ask around and let you know... Maybe he just got hung up when they were writing letters this time? It's probably pretty busy over there and Buzen said they've gone scouting before.

[STOP]

That could be it too. I just... [...she shakes her head.] I know it wasn't real, in the... adventure we were on. He was already gone by then. But... some awful things happened to him, during that.

The memory of it is hard to shake. So, it would have been nice to hear from him and put it behind me. That's all.

Ah...

[Well. He gets that! He's seen so many of his friends and comrades die and end up in terrible ways on these ventures, and he's always relieved to see them on his return, even knowing they were fine the whole time.]

...Yeah. I understand. Hopefully someone's heard from him, then. I'll text you about it ASAP, for sure.

Thank you.

...I'm sure it's fine, though. If something had happened - one of the others who had written would have mentioned it. Right?

I'd think so, yeah...

[CHANG GENG STOP BEING MISSING CHALLENGE. smashcut to sisi saying snow was laughing earlier and im just sitting here frowning]

[SHE SAID WHAT? AAAAAAAAA I THOUGHT I WAS JUST HAVING JIUQING DO HER THING WHERE SHE OVERTHINKS THINGS AND GETS NERVOUS except i guess that's not really a great example of that because bandits did in fact show up and try to kill her there]

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