#19 [video/voice] - first time for everything

[littlestdevil]

[Koakuma's journal is sitting open on a table in the library in case anyone were to call for her, pointed straight to the ceiling with the video function active for no apparent reason while Koa herself passes by a few times with handfuls of books for reshelving

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[vulcanblazer]

[Sounds that were all too familiar when he opened the journal... and then he realized who they were coming from. The voice tipped him off, and right then his instincts kicked in.

He knows what this means, that there's probably nothing he can do, but he doesn't care.]

Koa!

[...And with that he drops what he's doing and bolts for the library. He knows that every time it's always too late, that they're always long gone and there's nothing to do but wait. But damn if he's not going to try, because the one time he doesn't is the one time he could've done something about it.

So Adell arrives in the library, pile of books spilled on the floor, the window nearby shattered. Adell looked outside of it quickly. There was no trail to follow in what little snow was on the ground. He cursed to himself here, then moved only to pick up Koa's journal from the mess on the floor.]

[1week_wizard]

-Patchy was already there, collapsed and sobbing.-

[vulcanblazer]

[Adell just moves over to her and gives her a gentle, comforting hug. There's nothing that words will do at this point, and this will speak louder support than any words that any book in this whole place could come up with.]

[1week_wizard]

... I came back so that I could help her... protect her and watch over her like I should...

[lotusgatekeeper]

*Meiling eventually busts onto the scene as well. She's not as close to Koakuma as she could be, of course, but she was still someone she considered to be a family member...

So when she finds Koakuma to be gone without a trace it won't be hard to miss the large Meiling-sized hole in the wall... that she made with her fist. In fact that will be the only evidence that Meiling was even in the room, she leaves shortly afterwards to blow off steam in the forest.*