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kaoruko 🌺 hanayagi ([personal profile] floristic) wrote2021-06-11 09:43 pm
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Cut it out.

For the record, I'm angry with you. But we don't know what it means to be expelled and I'm not about to gloat over a kid's misfortune.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I know it is.

[She killed someone. The onus is on her to receive punishment. But from a place like this . . . His eyes narrow.]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Are you going to give me a straight answer if I do?
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Then tell me how you're feeling.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Taking a life has a more profound effect on your psyche than most would think. That's why you feel that way.

[To him, there's no worse punishment than the weight of a life on one's shoulders. That's only if the killer has a conscience, though, and he wants to hope that this admission of confusion means Kaoruko has it, even if he's only known her for a week.]

Regardless of what happens next, that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know what to tell you, Blue.

[She's acting just like the kid she is, responding to stress with anger. But the source of that stress is murder, and he still has no idea why she did it. He's not kind enough to let that slide.]

But I'd be a pretty poor grown-up if I left a scared kid alone.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-13 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't you tired of repeating yourself?

[Well, she deserves that much. She has a lot for which to answer.]

Then I'll stay until the next person comes around.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2021-06-14 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, you must be tired.

All right—make yourself comfortable. I'll keep watch and make sure that nothing happens to you while you're asleep.