PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[andexecutioner]

Yeah, come in.

[Hi, Mozu.

Juri's still wearing the usual jeans today, but with the red button-up he wears sometimes instead of the usual black. Perhaps more noticeably, both the slash on his face and the impromptu tracheotomy that Rideaux gave him seem to have healed completely since he's come back from the pit. There aren't any signs that his skin was cut open at all, really - not even any scars or marks where the injuries might have healed over.

Once in a while he still kind of runs his fingers over that area low on his throat where Rideaux's scalpel sank in; otherwise...well, looks like he's got cards from the game room today - he's got two decks of them, looks like he's playing Diplomat judging by all the columns, though he'll glance up when she comes in.

...There's also a white stuffed cat sitting on his desk with a red ribbon around its neck, but that's neither here nor there.]

Something on your mind today?

[andneversaydie]

...oh.

[she swallows a bit uncomfortably, given... everything, but...]

Glad to see you're doing alright after the, uh, that.

[...she can't help but smile at the cute-ass stuffed kitty, though. ...hmmm.]

Anyway... yeah. There's... something on a few people's minds, actually.

[andexecutioner]

[He kind of waves off the comment about him doing okay, though it's after a brief and vaguely uncomfortable pause because what do you even...say...to that...

Best to move on to the question, then.]

What sort of thing are we talking about?

[andneversaydie]

Well, it's just...

[...well okay she still doesn't want to talk about it so she's kind of looking for a ---]

Oh! I think I know that kitty! Did he go with Caterine or Bartholomew?

[andexecutioner]

[.......]

...What?

[andneversaydie]

...oh, did Ferid make that? It looks kind of familiar... I saw him making a stuffed kitty the other day and we were trying to come up with cute names for it.

[andexecutioner]

[...OH NO.]

Oh...well, he didn't tell me what he named it. But yeah, it's something Ferid made.

[andneversaydie]

...well, did you name it, Juri? If it was a gift, I think you probably get naming rights.

[andexecutioner]

[...Well, that's just kind of greeted with him looking at it like he's seeing it for the first time all over again.]

...I haven't named it, no. Maybe I'll come up with something.

[andneversaydie]

When in doubt, go with a terrible pun.

[...well, that was a fun little diversion, but...]

...um, anyway, about what I wanted to talk about... I'm guessing I'm not the first one to ask you about weird dreams, huh.

[andexecutioner]

...Weird dreams?

[Well, that's...huh.]

Actually, you are.

[andneversaydie]

Oh... really? Well, um, they're these really vivid dreams that... I'm not sure are real or not? I know a lot of people have noticed stuff wrong with their ages, but...

[andexecutioner]

[...Oh.]

So you want to know if you're remembering stuff or if they're just dreams, is that it?

[andneversaydie]

[...please just be dreams, please just be dreams, please just be dreams...]

...Yeah, I do.

[andexecutioner]

[...Mozu, dear god.]

Was it really bad? Whatever it is you were dreaming about.

[andneversaydie]

...

Well, this week's was alright? It was a little confusing because there were a lot of people I seemed to know but I don't think I ever met, and two people I did meet just then, and one of them looks weirdly like Inigo? And one thing that happened was just kind of weird.

Last week was actually horrible, though...

[andexecutioner]

[...]

...You all ended up here with some things to work through, let's put it that way.

[andneversaydie]

...

So that's a yes, then.

[andexecutioner]

...Yeah, something like that.

[andneversaydie]

[...oh. Well. She kind of pales up some and feels like she just kind of got punched in the stomach.]

...Oh.

[andexecutioner]

[...Yeah.]

You going to be okay?

[That's...awkward, but it's out there, at least.]

[andneversaydie]

...

I'll be fine.

[she says, as everything metaphorically catches on fire around her.]

[andexecutioner]

...Like I said. You'll work through it.

[andneversaydie]

Well. It's not like I have any choice, do I? Things... happen, I guess. You live with it.