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[ch. 4] tuesday evening, w/ dazai, evan & souji
[Presumably after all of them have taken a power nap—
Veronica brings the book and the booze to Dazai and Evan's room. Specifically, she brings two bottles of wine as well as four cups because, well. Sometimes, you gotta be a little buzzed to be able to deal with this shit.
Once everyone is in the room and the book is laid out in front of them, she's going to gently........ cradle her face in her hands.]
Oh, god. What have we done?
[MISTAKES. THAT'S WHAT.]
Veronica brings the book and the booze to Dazai and Evan's room. Specifically, she brings two bottles of wine as well as four cups because, well. Sometimes, you gotta be a little buzzed to be able to deal with this shit.
Once everyone is in the room and the book is laid out in front of them, she's going to gently........ cradle her face in her hands.]
Oh, god. What have we done?
[MISTAKES. THAT'S WHAT.]
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[Information that Veronica doesn't have, because she got out of there like a smart person.]
Maybe it's from that?
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Anyway that's. HM. MANY CONCERN. Souji's brow furrows a little and he looks back through the papers, reaching out to flip a page and thus cursing himself too. God.]
Do you think it has anything to do with the dagger on her shelf? The one you didn't like.
[Glancing toward Veronica. CURSED DAGGER.]
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[That's... troubling, to say the least.]
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[Beauty, why did you have to go and stab Caesar? You ruined a perfectly good NPC. Gave her anxiety!! When Evan adds his own theory, though, she shakes her head.]
No. I'm really sure Beauty isn't Dragon, and... that they're on the Other Side. Have any of you noticed the designs on the foyer tapestries?
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[He'll have to check those out later when everything sucks less.]
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[Apparently cursed items and curses in general are just fckin everywhere in this castle, though he looks Tired by the idea of it.
As far as talks of Beauty and Beast and Dragon and Tiger, though--]
I have. ...It's mentioned in that book too, isn't it? The leather one in the library. They were tasked with something they hated and so Beauty rebelled... The other Narrators were returned to their worlds but those two were left on the Other Side, even though Beast didn't know about Beauty's plan.
[Hm.]
I wonder if they're still there.
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[A frown.]
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[Hm.]
Do you guys remember what Ion, Natsuo and Belph talked about in the last trial? Ion, the one that's your partner, Souji— He got a letter from Beast. And Natsuo got a letter from one of the dead, from what I understood? It's a little confusing, but... I think they're all trapped in the same place. In this "Other Side." If that's the case, maybe we could try writing a letter back to them.
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[...Scooting closer to Evan because he really wants to get cuddly with his partner now and he deserves this.]
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In any case, he'll nod, since he'd seen Stabby Ion's letter even if he didn't understand a SINGLE THING ON IT.]
Mm, I'd like to give it a try, too. If they're there with Beauty and Beast - or at least Beast - then I'm sure they already know more about this than we do. Maybe we could each ask one question?
[Because he didn't see Sandalphon's letter but he already assumes life isn't as easy as "just ask the dead for answers and get them". SURELY SOMETHING WILL GET IN THE WAY.]
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Are we sure it's a good idea to write a letter to the person who tried to kill Tiger after we broke into her room and stole her things...?
[A beat.]
The last time I wrote a letter to someone, it didn't exactly, um, end well.
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[She's ascended to a new plane of existence. Everything is fine. She's dying but that's fine. Also—]
Wait. What happened the last time you wrote a letter to someone?
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I'd rather not be the one to write the letter, it doesn't usually end well for me either.
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You've both tried to write them already?
[Good thing Souji didn't know it was a possibility until right now or he'd have probably tried to flood them from Thursday on.]
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[He pauses for a moment as Dazai leans against him, but he doesn't seem to mind too much, only pausing for a moment before he continues.]
It was to, um, someone back home. I got something back, but - before I had a chance to read any of it, it kind of, um, burst into flames in my hands?
[So, you know.]
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[She's so alarmed she's not. Even going to notice them getting comfy with each other. It's fine. This is fine.]
Who did you write to, Dazai? Because it sure would be nice if writing to the dead didn't end in fire.
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[Concern increases, and Dazai wraps an arm around Evan to tug him closer.]
I haven't written a letter to the dead. Or to home. Just, historically speaking, my more important letters don't end well.
[On the bright side, this one probably wouldn't be thirteen feet long.]
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Have you treated the burns?
[Do they even have anything to treat burns here GOD. That said--]
...But if no one's tried to write to the dead, we could give it a try and see how it goes? If they're all in the same place, we could write to one of ours instead of Beauty or Beast if you think that'd be too risky, too. And I can be the one to open whatever we get back, if we need to. [He'll just lift his cursed right hand.] I can't really feel this hand anymore.
[SO IF IT GETS BURNED IT'S FINE.]
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Oh, no, um... Sorry, I should have said. It, um, it caught fire, but - the fire didn't burn for some reason? It was probably a weird... magic thing.
[To prove he's not just trying to stop them from worrying, he strips one of the gloves off for a moment; no burns here.
But, also, he's giving Souji an extremely concerned look.]
—Wait, you can't feel your hand? Since when?
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closes it
opens again
proceeds to softly shriek]
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Why is everyone talking about really bad shit that's happened to them just now? [JESUS.] What happened to your hand, Souji? Are you okay? Oh my god.
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Is that what Tiger did to you?
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Ah, good, I'm glad...
[AS FOR THE REST OF THAT-- Veronica has to deal with peak idiots, truly.]
I'm fine otherwise. Compared to what could have happened, it seemed small. [He was expecting DEATH.] Anyway, I think it might be some sort of curse.
[Just fckin casually. It's fine, they're all cursed anyway. This book is cursed, his hand is cursed, everything they do is likely cursed.]
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I-It could have been worse... [(seriously how did they not all die)] But, what if it spreads...?
[That makes him realize something, though.]
Veronica, did anything weird happen to you...?
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also veronica:]
... Uh. Define "weird." [v e r o n i c a.] Because I... might be hearing someone's heartbeat in my ears whenever I open a door? Which, um. Which definitely wasn't happening before we screwed the pooch.
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