come out of hiding, i'm right here beside you

[barehands]

[A while after the execution has ended, everyone will find a simple note slipped under their door.]

If you don't want to be alone after everything that's happening, some of us will be in the dining room. Even if you decide not to come, please remember that you aren't alone here.

[The note isn't signed, but the handwriting is feminine and neat.

For anyone who decides to come, there's a good array of food laid out on the table. There are some small and simple cakes, cookies, and pastries, a healthy amount of okonomiyaki, okayu, and other Japanese dishes (with a focus on rice and eggs), along with curry. In addition, there are pancakes, and a large pot of soup. It looks like a few people collaborated to make enough food for everyone here.

Just like the meal they shared together earlier in the week, the candles from the storage room lend a more peaceful light than the fluorescent lights above.]

Comments

[nachetanya]

I don't know what a turret is, but where I'm from... bullets would relate to firearms, I assume? The balls you load into them?

[dangerousfool]

Exactly! And a turret is a machine that fires bullets automatically. They're harmless as long as they're defective. You'd like them.

[Maybe]

[nachetanya]

[ . . . ?? oh, wait- ]

Are they "robots," like you?

[dangerousfool]

Yes! They're less advanced but they're robots too. Not as talkative as me, though.

[nachetanya]

[ She nods with some understanding.

Oh, she stopped thrusting, didn't she. She exhales and then gets back into form - ]

I probably would, then. After all, you've been enjoyable so far.

[dangerousfool]

[Hearing that she doesn't mind his presence makes Wheatley rather happy. It had been quite some time since he had been with humans, and they weren't exactly holding Wheatley in high regard]

You have been rather nice too! Most people here are. I had met mostly scientists before, but everyone here's very different from all of them.

[nachetanya]

Aah-- Is-- that so?!

[ Her words are a little more stilted as she starts up the practice thrusts again. ]