catchall rupert

[skyagain]

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week 3, friday

[skyagain]

[ hi rupert cloud is somewhere... with dirt on his hands ... wow this is an inspiring starter ]

[agleam]

...Hey.

[...]

How was Jason doing?

[skyagain]

[ he shakes his head ]

... He'd been better. We got him halfway through digging out.

[agleam]

It's a good thing you guys were around to help. I can't imagine he reacted well to that.

[skyagain]

... Yeah. [ he shakes his head ] This place never pulls any punches.

[agleam]

Right.

[...]

Why do you think there were - more, this time?

[skyagain]

[ WAIT YOU MEANT BODIES he looks away, jaw clenched ]

Don't know. Shadows got away with it last time so they multiplied? More entertainment? People finally snapped? I don't know.

[agleam]

...All of those reasons are stupid.

[he sounds angry, but of course it's not at cloud.]

[skyagain]

... Yeah, they are. [ he also sounds angry! it's fine. it's fine. ] But we won't know what happened unless we catch them.

[agleam]

...It's going to be tough.

[three! bodies!]

But I know I'll try my best. I hope everyone else does, too.

[skyagain]

Gonna have to try and really keep track. It'll get messy if we don't know what was involved with what. [ he sighs ] A lot of divide and conquer.

[agleam]

Yeah... I imagine there's going to be a lot of places to check out.

[a beat.]

Did you have any weird dreams last night?

[skyagain]

None in the library as far as I know. But... I got one of those phone calls.

[ soooo. yeah ]

[agleam]

What did you hear?

[skyagain]

... Just... crackling. [ he's frowning, looking away ] Constant crackling, and in the background... gasps for breath, until they stopped.

[agleam]

I'm guessing they didn't let you make out what kind of crackling it was? Like, fire, something electrical, or...

[skyagain]

No clue. The way it was constant and the way the breathing sounded... I'd have to guess fire, but I can't be sure.

[ also he has a fire trauma bias

not even from his own death he had one before that ]

[agleam]

...Hopefully someone who looked around knows where that is, this time. If some place is on fire again, we're going to want to check it quick.

[skyagain]

No kidding. I don't know what places were affected yet. Haven't talked to that many people.

[ he's been... busy!!! because of jason and not at all because of me, zia, ]

[agleam]

[mood

but also]

I haven't heard any, either, but... I did have a weird dream last night. I was in the spa.

[skyagain]

What did you dream about?

[agleam]

It was like... A game of hide and seek, and at first I was hiding. The other player found me, so we had to switch roles, but I got really confused when I started trying to find them instead. I felt really warm, and it was hard to think. I wasn't sure whether I was actually supposed to be finding someone or whether I should still be hiding, and then - I hit my head against something, and everything went dark.

[skyagain]

Tsurumaru had the same one. Was he with you?

[ sometimes francia goes to bed before i finish asking where the fuck tsuru slept ]

[agleam]

Yeah, we were both in the spa with a few others.

[skyagain]

You were definitely more detailed than he was. [ hmm ] Emet-Selch said he found Hope's body with a knife in it. You said you felt some heat, right? Maybe that one's related to the crackling, but Hope might not have been.