❧ Something To Talk About
[the first thing people will hear when they arrive in the room with Croix and Wash is loud classical music from the same composer Caligin used to listen to (though that detail may only strike a few.) but the music is a small detail in this room. many will recognise the cold, forbidding room as one they've seen in secret transmissions sent to them
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> When you--Xion--look behind your picture, you see a thin card with a golden key painted on it. (And if you're still looking at it, you'll see that your picture has your name, but also has two dates, both corresponding to when you entered the town.)
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> blink
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R... Really?
[Xion, who had dropped into a crouch when the wind blew by, jumps to her feat, waving the card in the air excitedly.]
I found it! I found the key!
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Hey, hey, hurry! Go open the door!
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What?! [he slams his hands on something in front of him and off-screen] Where the hell did that come from?! I forbid you from using it!
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[She starts walking towards the door.]
You may be in charge of this show, but you're not in charge of us. Like it or not, you don't own us. We're our own people. Put yourself in our shoes. I know you probably don't care to -- You don't even care if people live or die. But if you think that you can tell us what to do and act like the people waiting for us and the important things we have to do back home don't matter? You're wrong. You're wrong, and you have a lot to learn about people.
[She pauses just in front of the door.] Maybe you should watch our show more carefully. You might learn something.
[> Try to unlock the door]
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[he lowers his voice, staring at her] But do not think, for a single moment, that you are free.
> Filippo shuts the screens down, and when he does, the interior of the office changes. It's no longer the stark white room it was, but rather filled with honey-colored wood panelling and bookshelves filled to burst with books and documents--but the wall of photos remains as it was.
> And of course, when you try to unlock the door, you hear a "click"--and find that you can turn the doorknob now.
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Xion's breath catches in her throat. But before she can ask Filippo about what he said, if there was any way for some of them to stay while some of them go, the screens are gone and color floods the room.
Sophie, with her baby.
Ichijou, with the horrible world that's waiting for him.
How can she...? She can make her own decision, that she'll go away if it means everyone else will be home where they belong with people they care for, but... When she knows that Ichijou doesn't want to leave (and that she's been hoping for a proper chance to live, really live), and yet Sophie...
But -- Nathan wanted them to find Lab #3. Audrey's waiting for them there, right? So going through this door doesn't end everything, not really. Xion takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. That's right... There are people who are working hard to help them. She has to trust in them. She has to trust in her friends.
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