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prince sidon! ([personal profile] polliwog) wrote2024-02-24 05:01 pm

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[personal profile] rosebleed 2024-03-02 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, too.

[How grateful she is now, that it was him standing outside this door. No one has been especially callous, and everyone is eager to help one another. But Sidon is earnest in a way that few others are.

Better yet, he's still pragmatic.]


There's too many convenient accidents happening, if you ask me. Someone said Dahut might have had access to open the door, that he might have gone to make breakfast again. But even if he could leave, even if the doors were opened by accident, why on Earth would he go to the galley instead of trying to wake someone else up? He saw Luke die, too.

[There's a pause.]

Or...he went here for some reason. [She can't fathom why the simulation rooms should be locked too. Her head is spinning. She's no detective either, and the mysteries she had been primed to solve were more cosmic. Fantastical. Not a boots to the ground murder.] If we only have one chance to find out, we have to be open to any possibilities. And we have to be prepared for anything.

[Her fingers flex on her bow. Then she sighs. She'd been forced to sleep longer than she wanted, and yet she's so very, very tired. Her forehead comes to rest at Sidon's middle. Her eyes close and she takes a deep breath.

She misses her friends. Deeply, fervently. She wishes she knew the ones here better.

She wishes she'd talked to Luke at the party. She wishes she hadn't turned Dahut away last night.]


...I only have three arrows.