AUDIENCE: YONA

[retellers]

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[retellers]

It's not, but everyone wants their deaths to mean something. [ they tilt their head up to look at the sky ] Extent of wanting their lives to have meaning, I guess.

[dawnblushed]

...I guess so.

[she's quiet for a few long moments, and then she sighs.]

It just seems unfair that it has to happen this way at all, but... there's no changing it at this point. All we can do is try to make sure it goes better next time.

[retellers]

... Yeah. Patterns usually starts at three, but I think we've got enough bodies to call it. [ sighs ] My advice? Get organized quicker. Make sure you double check any information you learn. In this scenario, if you want the truth, you can't trust people to tell you outright.

[dawnblushed]

...right. And we need to make sure we don't focus on the first suspicious thing we see, too. Even if someone is acting really [shady] stubborn.

[retellers]

I have no clue what that kid was thinking. [ they lift a hand towards their mask like they have a headache ] Even if not now, this might have happened later anyway, if he didn't change his attitude.

[dawnblushed]

I don't understand it, either. I tried to talk to him yesterday, but - what he said then, and what he did today... it's just made me more confused.

[retellers]

[ ... sighs ]

Faced with that kind of death, I don't know that I wouldn't want to keep fighting, too.

[dawnblushed]

I can't blame him or anyone for wanting to fight. It's just - he told me yesterday that his death was something he could accept, so... I didn't expect him to act the way he did.

Maybe he was just trying to act tough when he said that.

[retellers]

Accepting death's not as easy as just saying it. It's a different thing when you actually face it.

[dawnblushed]

[virid accepted it pretty well though]

...mhm. There's that, too.

I guess it's just... Fighting for your life is one thing. But trying to survive by stabbing someone in the back... I think I would have fought if it was me, too, but...

[she sighs.]

...I don't know. Part of me feels like I should be angry because of how he did it, but I can't really be angry that he did it. It's normal to want to live.

[retellers]

Fighting with honor isn't always an option. Sometimes you take the opportunities you get.

[ they look towards the inn for a second ]

Do you want to be angry, or is it just that you feel you should be?

[dawnblushed]

...it's that I am angry, but I don't feel like I'm angry at the right person, I guess.

[she sighs again.]

Sorry. I know this isn't making a lot of sense.

[retellers]

This whole place doesn't make sense. [ it's blunt ] So who do you want to be mad at? The actual killers? Or what's causing all of this?

[dawnblushed]

Whatever it is that disturbed the nova in the first place. ...not since we arrived here, but - whatever caused the problem that made the Realm decide to bring us here.

[retellers]

[ oh ]

Seems like it's some kind of being that devours memories.

[dawnblushed]

I want to punch it in the stomach and make it spit them back up.

[retellers]

[ that nets her a little quirk of their lips ]

When we manage to locate it, you'll be the first invited.

[dawnblushed]

Good! I'll be counting on that.

[retellers]

But I've got first dibs before that.

[dawnblushed]

Fine, but I'll be right behind you!

[retellers]

I don't doubt that. [ there's a pause ] I'll be in town again starting tomorrow, so any further work on locating it falls on these three.

[dawnblushed]

[


hm.]

Are they going to be okay?

[retellers]

[ ....... ]

Well, it's not physical location, they'll still be in the castle. So they'll be fine.

[dawnblushed]

...that's good, but that's also not exactly what I meant.

[retellers]

They know how to do their job. Theoretically.

[ wolf don't talk shit ]