It's a little while after execution and Amelia's stopped by the canals, maybe waiting for a gondola to get her the heck away from here. Maybe Kaveh had the same idea, who knows.
There's an active effort to keep her emotions calm, and it's not an entirely successful one right now. They feel almost like a group of tangled knots of sadness and shock and anger. She doesn't have to look up to realize that Kaveh's near, and after a moment, she manages to say something.]
[Aki/Eli/Yaywon upset Amelia... the worst crime of all...
But yeah, he's at the canals. Just looking out over the water, mostly, all of his anguish burned down into a hollow kind of mourning. It takes him a while to say anything, even after she speaks.]
I knew he didn't want to live without Buzen. [Softly.] But I thought we'd get to say goodbye.
[Buzen and Rang, Kaveh doesn't know. But he thinks Buzen would be happy so long as someone honored Matsui, and Rang... Rang deserves to be remembered.]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ohthehumanities) wrote2023-06-24 06:34 pm
Week 2, Sunday
It's a little while after execution and Amelia's stopped by the canals, maybe waiting for a gondola to get her the heck away from here. Maybe Kaveh had the same idea, who knows.
There's an active effort to keep her emotions calm, and it's not an entirely successful one right now. They feel almost like a group of tangled knots of sadness and shock and anger. She doesn't have to look up to realize that Kaveh's near, and after a moment, she manages to say something.]
It's just horrible...
no subject
But yeah, he's at the canals. Just looking out over the water, mostly, all of his anguish burned down into a hollow kind of mourning. It takes him a while to say anything, even after she speaks.]
I knew he didn't want to live without Buzen. [Softly.] But I thought we'd get to say goodbye.
no subject
So... he was prepared for it?
[... It's not the most surprising thing to hear, but it's not something she can really relate to.]
But that's still... really sad.
no subject
[He hadn't sensed any true will to go on, yesterday. And Kaveh couldn't bring himself to beg him to try, not when Matsui's reason to fight was gone.]
But it shouldn't have been like this.
no subject
I hope they can meet each other again, as spirits...
no subject
Me too. [...] Alex said one of the reapers told her they're still around, in a way. Just on a different "frequency."
[It's a hollow comfort, after all of that. But it's something, to think that they might be together.]
no subject
I thought the idea was that the erased would go on to whatever afterlives they normally would have...
no subject
[Once they know who wins, he means.]
no subject
[She feels a little hopeful, at that.]
Maybe they're watching over us... like Rin was.
no subject
[It's a kind of selfish comfort, he thinks--the idea of them having to watch helplessly.]
Matsui will be okay if they're together, though.
no subject
[It's hard to be too relieved when it's only speculation, and it's in the wake of all the traumatic events of the past few days... but it's something.
She glances a little ways down the canal.]
... Maybe I'll go offer some prayers for them at the cathedral.
no subject
[Buzen and Rang, Kaveh doesn't know. But he thinks Buzen would be happy so long as someone honored Matsui, and Rang... Rang deserves to be remembered.]
no subject
If he's a ghost now, then that's probably where he'll be haunting us from.
no subject
[Even if it's just in small ways, like visiting their favorite places and saying their names.]