Week 5.

[trustfellowship]

WEEK 5 Another week has passed; another two people have died. Tsubasa Hanekawa and Nachetanya Loei Piena Augustra have joined the ranks of the deceased. Whatever you may have thought about them in the end, one thing hovers heavy over the group: the fact that neither their compassion nor their ambition was enough to keep them alive in here. Is yours? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; the static blares out early on Sunday, but at least there are no bodies to find today - it seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... And of course, with another successful trial comes a new addition to the building, another corridor opening up on the west side of the building. The doors leading to it branch off of the hallways leading to the second and fourth sections of the building; have those doors always been there? You can't remember... It's a new week. Of course, that means you've been here for over a month, and your stay doesn't seem to be coming to a close yet. PATIENTS REMAINING: 22

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[OOC: Welcome to week five of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Transmitter, you can do so through text or the phone in your room!]

Comments

[carnivorously]

Though I do wish you could have met her. She's not that much older than you and she would have taken you in rather quickly.

Yeah, so that's enough about her.

[He chuckles. He didn't mean for it to go on about Tsunemori, but it shows just how much he cares for and respects the woman.]

[heritrix]

[No, she doesn't mind in the slightest. It paints a better picture of what qualities Kogami respects in a person. And it helps differentiate him from the person she's thinking of, too.

She always knew those things, of course, but not as it pertained to her.]

I got off to about as bad as start with Archer as I did with you, when we first met.

[Her voice doesn't shake when she speaks. That's good; she trusts herself enough to continue.]

He took me for someone young and inexperienced, and told me I should wait in the basement while he did all the fighting for me.

[There's a touch of genuine humor to her groan, recalling it.] It was so condescending. He told me he acknowledged me as his Master, but in form only, and would be the one calling all the shots. That made me really angry.

[carnivorously]

Well, I can't say we didn't do the same as your Archer. Old Man Masaoka apparently told her to sit back and do nothing. It pissed her off from what I heard.

[He chuckles. It almost confirms they really would get along.]

Sounds like you've experienced the same thing, then.

[heritrix]

I did, but I didn't tolerate it for more than a minute. I used something much stronger than a taser, and leashed him in quick.

It was a reckless move that shouldn't have worked in the first place, but that it did even halfway impressed him. He took back everything he said and apologized for looking down on me, and even praised my skill.

[She had been so proud in that moment. Archer had been the first person to acknowledge her talent in such a way.]

Things went smoothly over the next several days, as we started to understand one another. I was annoyed that I hadn't summoned the Saber-class Servant as I'd intended, but Archer...

[She holds a hand, close to her heart.] We were compatible, in every sense. We would bicker, but our synergy was flawless. In combat he would follow my every order without hesitation, and there were times I didn't have to say the words.

He knew what I wanted from him, and I knew he would be there. I didn't think twice about jumping off that skyscraper, because I knew he would catch me.

[carnivorously]

I can't say I fully comprehend Servants and classes, but it sounds like you got a good one. That kind of trust is hard to find, but when you find it-- you never want to let it go.

[He knows with Tsunemori. Maybe she had a blind trust in him, but... he was glad for it.]

However, it is a good thing he caught you when you jumped off a sky scraper. That wouldn't have been a fun death. Instant. But not fun.

[heritrix]

[There it is again; a flash in her eyes that lingers, like photo negatives. Something sad. Something hurt. Her mouth is a tight line. Kogami's words apparently caught her off guard, because Rin only turns her face away as an afterthought; the action reads wooden, and not as natural as she intended.

That kind of trust is hard to find.]

[carnivorously]

[Hmm...]

Did I say something wrong?

[Because it's clearly something he said that's making her react like this.]

[heritrix]

No. It was funny.

[But her voice is thick and she's not laughing.]

[carnivorously]

[Well, he won't pry...]

If you say so.

[heritrix]

[Maybe that's why she tells him, when her voice is strong enough again, and she can control her face.]

...He betrayed me.

[carnivorously]

[His eyes widen a bit-- maybe in surprise, maybe in something else. Who knows? But it explains why what he said hit a nerve.]

I'm sorry.

[His voice is soft as he's looking in her direction. Probably not the easiest thing to admit after it sounded like she had such a good partnership with someone.]

[heritrix]

[Of all the things he could have said, she wasn't expecting that. Then again, she's not sure what she was expecting.]

It's fine. [She sounds like she's reading a script.] I've known for a while.

[...since Kogami woke her up at this very desk, actually. Rin busies herself suddenly, by putting the medicinal supplies she brought from the infirmary away in their drawers.]