televised | catch-all: daiba.

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catch-all: daiba.

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[At some point after the trial, these two will be running across each other. North pauses momentarily when she spots her, before offering her a nod as a way of greeting.]

Can you still say you agree?

[With, you know, pointing the finger at a kid even if it's kind of fucked up.]

... Well, we were right, weren't we?

[Does it sound heartless? It probably is. Nana's smile is very subdued as she talks, eyes a duller color than usual]

Imagine what would have happened if we had picked wrong, and she had been left among us. The darkness might have hidden inside of her for even longer and taken someone else's life.

We would have been screwed.

[Maybe it's cruel, given the fact that they've implicitly sentenced a child to death, but... It is what it is. There's nothing that can be done about it now.]

Which begs the question— What's going to happen if we're not as lucky the next time? From what our "guides" said, it sounded like getting rid of the darkness isn't as simple as killing its host.

I talked to it a little -- the darkness.

It definitely implied it'd be back for all of us later.

[So yes, destroying the darkness is going to be an Effort, and Nana already feels the weariness in her bones]

So I don't know how we're supposed to get rid of it if it can just... pick a new host whenever it wants. [her shoulders fall]

What's to keep it from picking all of us off?

Nothing. There's nothing keeping it from picking us off one by one if it can come back as many times as it wants.

[Like, uh. Yikes.]

We're going to have to pry more answers out of Sol and Lune after tomorrow. The best case scenario is that we're in a battle of attrition. Worst case...

[They've been given an impossible task, just to watch them squirm. Which is fun.]