turbulency | scary: ashlyn

[ oops ]

Yeah, I mean. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.

I can go over the finer details if you want them. It's good to know so we can look for patterns.

[ but she is compartmentalizing SO HARD for most people. ]

[ FAIR ENOUGH ]

Yeah, if you're able. And if you spotted anything on your way there or back.

[ so she just. takes out a glass bottle that's half-full of teeth. there is also a fairy in there gnawing on the teeth.

enjoy staring at that while she talks. ]

We were in a big building that might have been Hell. Or part of Hell. I don't totally get it. A woman named Hope wanted us to find a hammer to get her out, so we had to run around and look for it.

We split up and had to visit a few places. Mathis and I checked out the rare books section of the library and there were some... People from home there. For a little. Then Rondo and I went to the pleasure room, and there was more... of the same. There. A mirror that made it seem like...

[ ... ]

Once we snapped out of that, we were able to go back and set Hope free with the hammer. Raphael offered us something useful instead of freeing her, but we were split on it. Hope was the tie-breaker, so obviously she voted for her own freedom.

And then we had to fight Raphael before we left.

And I got this. [ shakes the bottle a little. the fairy probably does not like this. ]

[ Okay. He is staring at it. ]

We all saw people from home too, so I guess that's how these things try and manipulate us.

Each one of you got something? So four items total?

Yeah. I got stuck in some fake reflection for a while.

[ anyway, ]

We all got a stupid stress toy, but I didn't see Mathis or Rondo in the room where Lavi and I got these. He got something else. A box.

... I guess you got your information in the end. At least we can say with some certainty they're related to the cult.

Ashlyn. [ checks to see how she is ] You okay? It got pretty dangerous at the end there.

I'm fine. I don't pick fights with people when they start acting weird.

[ she should not be judgey about this when it's kind of a necessity for confirming killers. ]

... Yeah. Too many people were throwing themselves at her blade. But I guess we didn't really have any other way to stop her.

[ THEIR COMBATANTS KEEP DYING ]

I'm not faulting anyone who does. [ despite how it sounds. ] It's brave of them.

Well, yeah. Aqua was coming at us with a huge sword, but it's less brave and more stupid to attack someone like that with no weapon or fighting experience.

Some people's instinct is just to protect. It's still brave.

But yeah. Stupid.

It can be both at once.

[ Ugh. ]

I can't believe we caught three today and there's still one missing.

Honestly... Things turned into a mess at the end like they always do. And I wish it... had been handled differently, maybe.

But we did do well, considering.