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]

[...Oh, that's...hm.]

It's pretty one-way, yeah - though I'd think this really isn't a place you'd want to come back to, anyway.

[oasisrose]

Maybe not, but... I think having the option is better than not. If there's no coming back, it means I can't leave here with any unfinished business.

[Even if she's dying to cut and run as soon as possible. Somewhere, anywhere but here.]

[andexecutioner]

I actually don't have a lot of say when it comes to whether you'll come back here, or if you'll get to see the others all that much; the chances are good that you won't see me again after all of this, though.

[oasisrose]

What? Why not?

[It's direct, which is what she's avoiding, but -- how could she not when he puts it like that?]

[andexecutioner]

[...What in the world has gotten into you, Jean-

He just sort of stares for a moment before he shrugs.]

It's not my decision to make, when it comes to what you do from here. As for me...well, I've never run into the same people twice.

[oasisrose]

[That's the curse of a bleeding heart. You don't have to like someone to care about what happens to them.]

... and how many times have you done this, to be so sure that you won't...?

[andexecutioner]

...More than enough.

[It's not exactly an answer, but it's going to have to do for now, maybe.]

[oasisrose]

[This has been a lot to take in for one day.

She needs to take this all back in, process it, figure out what to do next. Figure out her actions for tomorrow. They're doing well -- no murders the week before. And this week, the incentive feels like another stroke of good luck. If it had come just a week prior, she might have been pushed to the breaking point, when she was so heavily distraught over the knowledge that her training as an assassin had been to harvest blood for a blood god. But the next dream brought clarity and peace, and now...

Well, if she could handle it, couldn't everyone else? Her faith in the people around her feels stronger than ever.

So, it's high time she made her exit...

... ... ...

But she really wants to say one more thing first.]


... I don't think it's right, you know. Even if you say that it has to be that way, and you're not bothered by the lack of agency...

To have the resources to access so many other worlds, meet so many other people. And then, to never actually get to use any of them except for things like this?

[She pauses, looking around at the games, the toys -- trinkets that, to her, read as symptoms of cabin fever -- and back to Juri.]

It just... seems like a shame.

[andexecutioner]

[He's quiet for a moment at that.]

...Have a good day, Jean.

[And from the sound of it, that is going to be the end of it.]