002 ❀ And your World will Burn

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It seems I have been returned.

[Chidori's voice is quiet and impassive as usual, and she's as straight to the point as she's ever been. For a moment though, it seems as if that's all she's going to say, but then she takes a deep breath and continues.]

The world was... not as it was, when I was sent back. It is... concerning, to say the least.
If it is not too much, can anyone tell me roughly how long I was gone?

[Another pause, this one even longer, and then quieter still-]



...Minato. Are you still here?

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[fractus-animus.livejournal.com]

[ He does frown, however slightly. ]

... It's worth mentioning because we were doing everything we could when you were taken to get you out. We were worried.

[ It's also worth mentioning that far too many things have not precisely gone his way of late, but he did not honestly care if SEES believed he murdered one of their own. He was not that dirty, but he'd let them think it. Perhaps it would make them fear him all the more. ]

I'm not surprised they didn't understand... they're just idiots following orders.

[ There... is something he wants to say, but he can't quite bring himself to say it... though he has to try, right? Why not. He's been giving this one a LOT of thought. ]

... But there may be a chance for us here, even though I hate to admit it.

[floreatnoctem.livejournal.com]

I know you were. I was going to escape, the second I was well enough.

[And she'd planned to, certainly. Especially with things going the way they had been.]

For as bright as some of them seem like they are, they are foolish and easily led astray.

[She hesitates at that, doesn't quite know how to take that 'us'- but she asks, because she's not the type who wouldn't. Her hand settles on his shoulder, lightly, and she looks at him almost worriedly.]

A chance for us?

[fractus-animus.livejournal.com]

[ That is all beside the point. He has to have the courage to say this... ]

... I've been thinking about this place. If people just come back when they die... what's going to happen to us if we stay here?

[ In other words: even if their time runs out, will they just... revive? ]

We do need to go back. But if the others came here... do you think that things would change? Maybe--

[ ... Maybe they could find a cure here? Not just a elongated death sentence. But he doesn't want to give her hope. They had to live without it. ]