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!]

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[imaginex]

But you care about him.

[Her tone lacks judgment; Sakura simply recites what she thinks she's seen over the years, and the words Rin hasn't quite said during their current conversation]

[heritrix]

[...]

Sakura. [Rin brushes a long lock of hair back over her shoulder.] I've been dishonest with you.

[imaginex]

[A hand clenches tight over her heart and squeezes until there's no breath in her lungs. Sakura doesn't think she wants to--

No. Have courage. Be more like Nee-san.

A tiny breath. Sakura straightens.]

What's wrong?

[heritrix]

Just because of a lie, something has to be wrong?

[Rin glances to the side, smiling like this is a joke.] Because it's nothing so extreme; I imagine you've omitted facts from your story as well.

[But Rin isn't cornering Sakura about such things at the moment. Still smiling, she looks back to empty pulpit.]

Saber isn't the only Servant Caster has taken.

[imaginex]

[... Somehow, Sakura feels set up, and it turns her shoulders rigid. She glances elsewhere out of childish spite.]

Oh? Who else did Caster take?

[heritrix]

Mm, well to start if you didn't know it, she's the Master of Assassin. Breaking the rules, a Servant summoned a Servant.

[The smile has left her face, but crossing one leg over the other, Rin speaks with a casualness that belies her anger.]

So that was one Servant in her pocket, and by stealing Saber she had two. When my Archer joined her, that made three.

[There we go. There it is.]

[imaginex]

[A sharp intake of breath that she can't hide]

Three...?

[No, wait--]

Your Servant joined her? Voluntarily?

[heritrix]

Did I not speak clearly? [Rin tilts her head.] I thought that was implicit.

[In any case, she sees no reason to repeat herself.]

But I'm not out of the Holy Grail War yet, either. Like a certain person we know, I don't know when to quit. Neither of us possess Servants now, so this makes Emiya-kun my only ally.

[She says this with a degree of finality, like she expects Sakura to read in between the lines.]

[imaginex]

[Can she read between the lines? Will she? Sakura turns her gaze back at Rin and tilts her head like a mirror]

Allies, is it? That is typical of Senpai.

Will you both share the Grail together, then?

[heritrix]

We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

[Rin is turning on the asshole qualities extra hard today, it seems like.]

[imaginex]

[... There's only one more question Sakura wants to ask]

And at that bridge... would you destroy the alliance in order to win?

[heritrix]

...Huh?

[imaginex]

Which is more important to you:

Shirou.

Or winning?

[heritrix]

[Chalk two points up on the scoreboard for Sakura, for questions Rin was not expecting. If the last one left her speechless, this one went for the jugular. More than being unprepared, she wasn't prepared for the person it came from.

Staring as if she doesn't recognize the one in front of her, Rin has to look away. Her gaze is on her lap, but her focus has turned inward.

...

She's so sorry. She's so sorry, Sakura, because she thinks she cares about him too.

...]

Who can say? [Rin raises her eyes to the pulpit, voice distant and monotonous.] I'll do what I think is best.

[But whatever it is, it happened already.]

[imaginex]

[That was not the answer Sakura wanted; her body posture doesn't relax.

... It wasn't the wrong answer, either, and for that, the fury of her gaze abates. Call it trust or naivety, but Sakura has always taken Rin at her word.]

I see. [her own voice carefully blank, she turns to look frontward again. For now, she has nothing else to say.]

[heritrix]

[And neither does Rin. She waits patiently, in case Sakura wants to add anymore, and when she doesn't Rin picks herself up from the pew.]

I think I'll say farewell to you here, Sakura. I originally came here looking for someone; I should keep up the search.

[imaginex]

... Okay.

[She offers a polite nod in the other girl's direction]

Good luck.

... I will see you later, Tohsaka-senpai.

[heritrix]

[Rin replies in turn, equally polite.]

Good night, Sakura.

[She leaves without looking back.]