catch-all: emma.

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What about the dead? Have you been in contact with them lately?

[foodbin]

Not since Swift Wind.

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If she told you what she was going to apparently tell me, is it something you're okay with saying?

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I didn't exactly hear it from her.

[It's... complicated.]

But I know what it is that she wanted to share with you. And I need to promise you won't freak out.

[foodbin]

Great start... Okay. I promise.

[Even if she's already looking concerned upon hearing that.]

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[She stares at her for a moment longer, before... she crosses her arms, gripping her forearms.

After a beat:]

Supposedly, if we want to end this, everyone has to die until there's only one person left.

[foodbin]

[She stares for a moment








and then, nearly simultaneously, starts laughing seconds before she starts crying.]

Wow. I am such a fucking idiot. How many people already know?

[televised]

[Ah.]

Get a grip. There are still a couple of things I need to confirm with Lune and Sol.

[North isn't looking too good either, but at least she isn't crying? It's fine. Everything is fine. She isn't ready to take a depression nap at all.]

Besides us? One, bare minimum. But there should be more, depending on who's actively exchanging information with the dead.

[foodbin]

[She rubs at her eyes.]

Right. I'll do that. [Even if she doesn't look that much less upset.] What are you confirming?

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Honestly? Everything. How this was decided, how it's meant to control the darkness, what will happen to the survivor... There's too much I don't know. I can't accept this until I have more answers.

[foodbin]

...I'll talk to him, too.

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Then let's compare notes afterward.

[foodbin]

Okay.

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If we don't find another option, who would you suggest?

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To kill?

[foodbin]

...No, to be the last person.

[Not that they have complete control over it, but.]

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The last person standing can't be corrupted. So, ideally... Someone who has an item that makes them immune from the darkness.

[foodbin]

...Somebody has one, but - well. It’s not an item that only they can use.

[So if they decide on a better candidate as a group at some point, they’ll have that, at least.]

[televised]

I think I know who you mean.

[It'll be fine long as the item isn't destroyed or lost to the void, somehow...]

[foodbin]

Yeah.

[...But.]

'Not corrupted' is a pretty wide range of possibilities. If we don't have another choice - I don't know. Isn't it something we should think about?

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It won't be so easy if we keep missing the corrupted during trials. Fuck up enough times, and we won't know for sure who's corrupted and who isn't.

[foodbin]

...It had to be either Julius or Akane, though.

[Just saying.]

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... Yeah. I know.

Though I get the feeling Akane is gonna be a problem with our without the corruption.

[foodbin]

I have a feeling she will be, too. That feeling probably comes from how she's already an issue.

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Again, I know. It's not the first time she's refused to cooperate. Did Naminé tell you about the shit she pulled on her?

[foodbin]

...What did she do to my partner?

[she's gonna destroy a teenager]

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Remember how Akane knew about the swords we got from the war?