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

[ossifragant]

Familiar? What, the spirit companion witches are said to have? No, not exactly.

I'm me; I work for me alone.

[crywiththesaints]

Witches? [She laughs a little.] Perhaps. You're right, of course. A familiar doesn't have a will, does it?

[ossifragant]

I really wouldn't know-- I've never heard of anything like that existing in my world.

[crywiththesaints]

Stories do always vary, don't they? I simply thought it might be relevant. We're obviously out of what we're used to knowing as real.

[ossifragant]

Anything is possible, and all that. I get where you're coming from.