Audience: SQX

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Comments

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you were trying! that totally counts!
things like this are made hard by people involved knowing they'll get frustrated and maybe give up

[shiftingwinds]

i wsnt to h it wheoevr did thss

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would that actually help, you think?

[shiftingwinds]

[there's like a five minute pause as she considers that]

ifd make me feel vetter for avfew minytes

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yeaaaaah...but it doesn't change that they're gone
so then what?

[shiftingwinds]

i dnt know i just don,t know i juts want to help peoklpe

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i know
hey, where are you? i'll come find you

[shiftingwinds]

bra

[that was a legitimate typo and not deliberate drunk text but it was funny so i'm keeping it]

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[...sqx. it's fine, lust will go to the bra bar and approach her, leaning against the bar itself.]

...do you need some water?

[shiftingwinds]

Probably.

[she is drinking directly from a jug of rice wine]

But, I don't really want it.

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You're gonna feel terrible tomorrow if you don't. [...] Well. More terrible.

[shiftingwinds]

I know, I just...

[she groans and puts her head down on the bar's counter]

I hate not having been able to figure this out.

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It's really frustrating, I know, but you guys were starting to do better! So maybe there's hope for if this happens again...?

[shiftingwinds]

[just. groans.]

We were starting to do better, and then we spent hours thinking Kaz got turned into chocolate.

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Yeah, that wasn't really your finest moment. Who came up with that idea?

[shiftingwinds]

...I really don't know.

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Next time...try to get people back on track sooner. It might help.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

...I really don't understand what happened to Kaz.

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If you consider that he probably wasn't turned into a giant chocolate bar...where do you think you would go from there?

[shiftingwinds]

Someone... killed him in a way that didn't leave any evidence?

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Maybe something like that. [they sigh.] There's nothing we can do to change it now, but...for next time. It doesn't hurt to consider things you wouldn't consider before. Just in case.

[shiftingwinds]

...do you think whoever did it is going to hurt someone again?

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It's totally possible. They got away with it the first time, so...what would really stop them?

[shiftingwinds]

[urgh. hate that.]

...then we'll have to figure out how they managed to make Kaz's body vanish, so we can't be fooled again.

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Nothing's stopping you from thinking about it more now that it's over. I wish we could help, but we can't say anything either.

...but it doesn't hurt to start thinking about it again tomorrow instead.