school: crow

[shaft]

tbc

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[chevaliered]

... I mean, I drank at 17. Who knows what he gets up to.

[ mmm. terrible beer.

he takes his own and just drops into one of the seating area chairs with an "oof" ]

"Ugh" is about right.

[shaft]

[ He makes a beer at the crappy beer, which probably isn't even cold, but it doesn't matter. ]

I know we should be positive for the kids, but man. I'm tired.

[chevaliered]

[ a beer at the beer? ]

I think at this point the kids are more than competent enough to keep their own spirits lifted.

[shaft]

[ Stop I'm tired.

... But then he remembers the detectives. ]

Yeah, they're really something. They figured out a lot more than I did.

[chevaliered]

Right? Rita just... dove right on our meaning for last week's message. I'm impressed.

[shaft]

She's a bright kid. So is Maya.

[ ... ]

Now I'm just wondering what photo is supposed to be.

[chevaliered]

[ maya and her murder hands ]

... Yeah. It's been here since the beginning, right? Right under our noses.

[shaft]

Yeah. It makes no sense.

[ He sounds annoyed? He hates secrets that he's not privy to. ]

The simplest answer would be that he's the author of our story.

[chevaliered]

… But like he keeps saying: who is he?

[ he sips his beer ]

[shaft]

Perhaps he's someone who was here first, and he lost his identity like the dorm heads did.

[chevaliered]

Or someone who was made here with no proper identity. You’ve seen the script right? That thing was a patchy mess, they didn’t even remember to give the city and capital proper names.

[shaft]

That could be the case. They tried to make a person from scratch and it failed, so they began abducting others?

I always thought there was something unusual about this school, but to think it extended to the entire dimension...

[chevaliered]

Like an extra character gone wild?

[ ... he doesn't like that. ]

Unusual's one way to put it. This whole place has been... off. But it would explain the whole ... people getting dragged off to seemingly other worlds without a warning. If this place can play with everything like it's a toy, then making whole other worlds isn't such a stretch.

[shaft]

[ Instead of answer, Claude just gulps down his beer.

He's tired. ]

[chevaliered]

[ (aki voice) moof ]

[ crow also sips his beer. ]

[shaft]

Let's talk about brighter things- anything exciting awaiting you back home when this is all over?

[chevaliered]

[ jesus christ, claude. ]

Fading out of existance?

[ way to pick a topic. ]

[shaft]

[ ... ]

What's that now?

[chevaliered]

Fading out of existence? [ pretend i spelt it right the first time ]

Probably.

[shaft]

[ ... ]

You're dead?

[chevaliered]

Immortal, if you want the technical world. So long as me and Ordine are Awakener and Knight, getting killed didn't really stick.

[ ... ]

But it will do, once the Great Twilight's over.

[shaft]

[ What. ]

Wh... and it's going to be over when you return?

[chevaliered]

Pretty much. Final day kind of deal.

We're heading off to stop it, or we were before I got dragged here.

[shaft]

... Then there's a chance you won't fade away.

[chevaliered]

The Great Twilight's what's keeping me alive. Despite the fact I'm a statistical anomaly.

[ he waves a hand over at claude's. give. ]