006 ~*~ In which loyalties are tested

[notsogreatwall]

[ Phone : Open ]
I had to go to work today. People are killing each other left and right and it was like nothing was different at school. [ Meiling's characteristic carefree nature is absent from her tone. The past few days have been hard on her, even in isolation, as she cannot escape the emotional aftermath of all this senseless bloodshed

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[forgottenshiki]

Do you know what would happen to those that show they care? How worried they are?

[notsogreatwall]

...no? [ But she'll listen. ]

[forgottenshiki]

They make it more obvious that they're easy targets. Several expressed their care over the phone lines when this first started. I wonder how many are still alive now?

[notsogreatwall]

Not everyone who wants to avoid fighting is an automatic "easy target".

[forgottenshiki]

Then those are the lucky ones. All I'm saying is that obviously, there are people that care. It's just better for them not to call attention to themselves by showing off how much they do.

[notsogreatwall]

Then what can they do? There has to be something...

[forgottenshiki]

Watch out for their own killer and live. At this point, nothing's going to stop everything from escalating. You'd be lucky enough to keep those you know safe, forget the rest of the town.

[notsogreatwall]

[ There is some shuffling of paper. ] --I guess you're right about that. I'm only one youkai. There's only so much I can do. [ "Because you're useless." ]

[forgottenshiki]

Even more so now that you're human here.

[notsogreatwall]

I... don't have that problem anymore. [ She should be excited about that, but she's not, because she figured out that the letters with her abilities and her body came at the same time as the notice of a change of targets. The first time? Could have been coincidence. The second and third, back-to-back? No, the only way was because people were dying. ]

[forgottenshiki]

What? Wasn't all that taken away ever since this mess started?

[notsogreatwall]

Everything was missing since I got here, but when I came home after the first letter, I had my body returned instead of my hat. It was kind of weird.

[forgottenshiki]

Heh, from the introduction letter? That's unfair.

[notsogreatwall]

No. [ There's a beat. ] The one ...after. It told me I had a new target. [ She hurries to explain. ] But I didn't hurt anyone!

[forgottenshiki]

So you gain an ability back after killing someone...

[notsogreatwall]

...please don't get any ideas from this. It's not worth it!