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]

It would have.

[ She agrees, because it would be foolish not to. Asgore was more well spoken, better coordinated, and bigger than Felicia. Arietta could not have possibly overpowered him unless it was premeditated, which this wasn't. ]

[journalname]

...I did not even know that her family had been killed.

[He wishes he had. But how could he know to ask that? They spoke of her family often enough, and still she never told him.]

[nachetanya]

If she didn't share that, you can't be accountable for knowing.

[ She says, quietly. ]

[journalname]

Still. I wish she had felt comfortable enough to tell me. [Obviously she told other people.] I know that it does not do any good to dwell on regrets. But, just now...

[nachetanya]

It isn't... but grief is also inevitable.

[ She once more brings her hand to his back, rubbing it in there as she looks off into the foggy blizzard ]

It can't be helped, but it also should only be for today that you say things like that.

[journalname]

Yes, yes...

[He runs a hand over his eyes.]

I have been king through many things. We cannot always have the time to focus on our own feelings. Not for long.

[nachetanya]

[ She nods. Honestly, she's content to rub his back a little, allowing him to come to that conclusion himself. She has more she can - will - say, but for now the silence from her gets across the same point. ]