even the thorn in your heart, in time it may become a rose

[passional]

[ ...Well that was... certainly a thing that happened. Inigo isn't entirely sure what to feel about this at all; he's used to death to the point it doesn't really affect him much, but the entire thing was messed up and confusing nonetheless.

But in trying times like these, they need something to keep morale up, don't they? So shortly after the group leaves the courtroom, he decides to seek Cilan out and ask him for help.

A few hours later, Inigo slides a note under each occupied door: ]

(Name),
If you don't want to be alone right now or need someone to talk to, come to the music room.
There's food and drinks if you're hungry or thirsty and you're all welcome there.
We must persevere, and we must not forget that hope will never die.
- Inigo and Cilan

[ Since most people probably aren't going to want to be in the dining hall after... that, the music room is the best place for an afterparty. Moving those long tables didn't seem feasible, so he decides to grab some boxes from the storage room and stack them in a way that makes them vaguely resemble a table. There are chairs loosely arranged in the room, and he's set up a simple memorial of sorts by lighting two candles.

The food primarily consists of finger sandwiches and other light foods, plus drinks like tea (not chamomile, mind you) coffee and juice. Nothing overly fancy, but it tastes good. ]

Comments

[glaciates]

Yeah. That's... probably going to be a bit easier said than done. Tensions are really high right now and everyone's nerves are frayed.

[That trial kind of proved it. Not that he regrets shouting at Aligula of course!!]

[greenmamabear]

Yeah. Maybe things'll calm down once we have time to grieve.

...Aligula and Ferid are a problem though.

[glaciates]

Yeah. Terumi was making a nuisance of himself too, but at least he shut up eventually.

[Isaac reaches up to play with the stray strand of hair in front of his face as he thinks.]

...I don't really get what the deal with them is. I don't like any of those three, but sometimes I can have decent conversations with them. It's really strange. I think they just do whatever they want to do without caring too much about the consequences or how it'll affect everyone else.

Aligula's views on death are disgusting. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten so rude with her, but I don't regret it any.

[greenmamabear]

[She rests her face in her hand.]

Maybe they're just... I don't know, they have different views of this whole thing. I can talk with Aligula fine if she's not pushing for romance or... doing the stuff you yelled at her for. Which you were right to.

But Ferid's garbage.

[glaciates]

...I had a pretty nice conversation with Ferid recently. This was after he freaked me out by getting in my personal space and I decided I wanted nothing else to do with him. So... I don't really know what to make of him.

[It's kind of hard to be too mad at Ferid right now though, since Ferid's the only one he's really talked to about the military and the people he's killed.]

I'm not sure if they're trying to manipulate us or if they're just... really damn weird.

[He'd like to believe it's the latter, but if this trial has taught him anything it's that he can't have as much faith in people as he'd like.]

[greenmamabear]

...That's good. Someone getting along with him is probably for the best. [She couldn't do it but. Good for you Isaac.]

Could be both. They could be nice, weird people who also want to use us.

[glaciates]

Yeah. It probably is both, at least somewhat. They're strange and I'm still pretty pissed off about what happened during all of that, but... I don't know. I guess it's kind of hard to write them off entirely right now.

[They're still a group, even if that group is made up of people who hate each other!!]

[greenmamabear]

I know what you mean. I guess none of this is as simple as we'd like.

[glaciates]

It'd be nice if things were simple, but given how things have turned out today... I don't think anything's going to be simple anymore.

[greenmamabear]

Maybe not.

But people seem to be talking. Maybe we can at least keep everyone together for now.

[glaciates]

After something like that, trying to keep people together's the best we can do, I think.

[But this is very different than anything he's ever experienced so hell if he knows!]

[greenmamabear]

[Don't worry, if it gets too stressful, Isaac can just freeze everyone and take on Juri on his own, that'll work fine.]

Fingers crossed for us to at least manage that.

[glaciates]

[i made the worst noise, thank you so much]

We'll do what we can, at least.

[...we are so fucked, aren't we]