dramatispersonae

EMERALD

[The inside of the tent is spacious, but spare. In the center of the hard-packed dirt floor, as promised, there is a heavy oaken trapdoor with an iron ring set into it.

Apart from that, there is nothing.]

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... Is there any point in this...?

To save Emerald.

I thought we all knew this was just an illusion. All we're going to do is get ourselves killed, probably.

Way to think positive, Sherry.

Excuse me if this isn't a game that encourages positive thinking!

You're self-prophesying!

I'm being realistic.

Oh. Realistic. You mean like our teammates?

[the ones Daiquiri and Sasuke are staring at]

[just looking away]

I'm doing it anyway, aren't I...

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You don't have to. If you want to stay here, stay here. But we're going on ahead.

I said I'm going!

Re: DISCUSS

cerealpunner - 2014-01-18 21:46 (UTC) - Expand

[ skittish ]

That didn't seem like an illusion--!

[ cupping Stealth's cheek in her hand ]

[nope nope refusing to look]

Yeah, but... I don't like this.

[ reaches out to take Sherry's hand ]

Nobody likes it.

[ being brutally maimed seems inevitable, actually ]

But we owe something to Emerald, right? And those two who have everything back will be able to fight the darkness even better than we can, if we just get them now.

[goes quiet for a moment, then just nods lightly]

Let's go. Emerald is waiting.

[holding her hand a little tighter]

... Mm.

Don't say that! No one's going to die.

You don't know that.

Neither do you, so stop acting like we've been beaten already!

I've been in a game where—we were killed the second we walked into the room, okay! [her voice cracks a little as she says that] Sorry if I'm not optimistic!

You don't have to be optimistic. Just don't give up, okay?

Whatever.

Illusion or not. We decided what we'd do.

... Fine.

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