catchall harrowhark

[skyagain]

manifesting me dying

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[outsidebones]

...Thank you. We were very lucky, weren't we?

[skyagain]

Lucky, or someone looked out for her. [ he shrugs. ] Either way, congrats.

[ it's a good thing! rejoice! he's judging the books. ]

[outsidebones]

Thank you.

[...]

I'm sure it's still a bitter pill to swallow when so many from the realm were lost.

[skyagain]

[ the look he gives harrow is genuinely baffled, for a second, before he shakes his head ]

So were a ton of people from that school. [ he'll point that out first, because there are always losses in these things. and, more wry: ] I woke up halfway through my own trial, Harrow. Not gonna be bitter about anyone else getting to crawl out the grave.

[outsidebones]

I suppose that's true. [a huff.] I worry we have made ourselves a bit unpopular.

[skyagain]

Unpopular's too big a word for it. [ it's blunt but casual as he browses and doesn't touch a single book ] Like it or not, your two groups drew lines in the sand that trial. But I wouldn't assume anyone would begrudge you guys Sheila coming back, despite everything.

[ he stops at one book, hums, but doesn't pick it ]

Far as I can tell, most people here don't necessarily want anyone else dead and buried. They just have people they want to die less. It had to come to a head eventually.

[outsidebones]

We did. Though...really, I get along well with some of them. I simply don't care much for Rin.

[skyagain]

He's a dumbass, but he means well. I doubt he'll make trouble for you guys in the future. Not on purpose, anyway.

[ just the general saying dumb things in trial, which he thinks everyone does at one point or another. ]

[outsidebones]

If I don't have to speak much to him, then I'm satisfied.

Speaking of, you and Estelle found a room last week?

[skyagain]

Don't know if I'd call it found so much as led to, but yeah. [ he looks at her curiously ] You get one of those keys too, or just hear about it?

[outsidebones]

I've heard about five of them. What did you find?

[skyagain]

Staff room, same as everyone else. Gemini. [ he tilts his head ] I don't think the details of what we found in them matters as much as the conclusion.

[outsidebones]

And the conclusion?

[skyagain]

Something I think you know already. About what the staff is presenting themselves as... and what the truth of that actually is.

[ it's pensive ]

Room matches until it doesn't.

[outsidebones]

...Quite. That is what was noticed in the other rooms I have heard of. Odd discrepancies.

[skyagain]

... And that's not the only thing where there's discrepancies. Considering Sheila had it-- you saw the journal, right?

[outsidebones]

Yes. That was odd to me.

What stood out to me is that I think they...don't know.

[skyagain]

... Don't know?

[outsidebones]

The way the journal described some of the others, what they're like.

[skyagain]

[ there's a pause and he nods ]

... Right. It sounds like that. But I think it's more complicated than that. [ a pause ] How often do you talk to Aquarius?

[outsidebones]

Not very often. Occasionally.

[skyagain]

Well... I'd say I talk to them a lot. And that journal seemed weird to me for... other reasons.

[outsidebones]

Ah. Hmm. I don't suppose you can elaborate.

[skyagain]

... It doesn't fit, the same way some of the stuff in those staff bedrooms didn't quite match everything.

[outsidebones]

Ah. I see.

Do you believe the letter to be sincere?