school: crow

[shaft]

tbc

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[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. ]

[shaft]

So then keep it from ending?

[ He will hand Crow his beer. ]

[chevaliered]

[ ... he literally just puts the beer down and takes his hand instead, putting it on his chest. enjoy those pecs, claude.


but no really, there's no heartbeat there. enjoy that. ]

Cant't. The Great Twilight's fucked up. It's ruining Erebonia, and if we don't stop it ASAP, it'll ruin all of Zemuria along the way.

[shaft]

[ oh! hello

interesting ]

... Ah. So fading is your only option.

[chevaliered]

Seems like.

[ ... ]

Someone said they have other ideas, and there's a whole bunch of optimists back home that'd support them but... sometimes you have to keep the practical in mind, y'know.

[shaft]

... And if you don't return?

[chevaliered]

Heart's still not beating. Dunno what happens to Ordine either -- he's not completely here, not as he currently is. 'Sides, I'm not abandoning Rean and the others to deal with all this on their own.

[shaft]

Quite noble of you.

[ Picks up his beer again. ]

I'm not really sure what to say to that. How old are you really, then?