[voice] Is ♞ even on the network's character map III: ..is it safe to look?

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Forward dated to the 13th.]

[The recording begins with dead air for a few tense seconds, before a young girl's voice picks up.]</sub>

..so the network's stopped streaming all of that stuff now. If I'd gotten on and it was still happening, I don't know what I'd do. _{[Ignoring that she'd seen some people that were in the labyrinth out and walking about the tower again herself, but that had been a very.. fuzzy week for her.]}

--That's not the point of this, though. Um. Roxas, did I faint or something, the other day? And...



...Madoka. Are you really here? I'm.. if you are, I'm sorry for saying that you were just a dream...! _{Please, please really be here.}

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[Locked]

[dragonspooker]

['Kay, so Sayaka? Lina's face is all up in the camera.]

Hey. Hey. What do you know about mermaids?

[Locked]

[beknightedheroine]

--Mermaids?

I dunno, they wear clamshells for bras?

_{[Taking her a minute to pick up on the relation to why you might be asking, sorry Lina.]}

[Locked foreeeverrrrrrrrr]

[dragonspooker]

Lemme amend that. What do you know about musical mermaids that don't hang out in the water?

[Sayaka's getting fixed with a really suspicious look by now. Unfotunately, there is no Good Cop to counterbalance her here...]

[and ever and ever and ever]

[beknightedheroine]

...seriously, you just described the plot of a Disney movie.

[disbear]

[Oh, boy, does he remember that voice.]

Upupupupu...

[beknightedheroine]

Yeah, that's a creepy laugh. You want an award or something?

[disbear]

I know a secret.

[beknightedheroine]

...


Weeeeeellllll?

You can't just taunt me like that leave me hanging without a hint, creepy laugh guy!

[disbear]

Hint? Are you asking for a hint? Hm, how do I put this... well, okay. Let's talk about despair. What do people do when they're in despair?

[beknightedheroine]

...Despair?

_{[A few days ago, she might have rambled to him at length about her thoughts on despair and how it balances out with people's happiness. As she is now, though... that kind of thing seems silly.]}

They mope around a lot and need to be cheered up by other people, I guess.

I forgot to mention. He sounds like the exact equivalent of Winnie the Pooh.

[disbear]

Sometimes... a monster comes out.

..beautiful

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[She's built up a weirdness filter after three months in this tower, but the voice of something sounding like a cartoon mascot talking about despair and monsters... it's a bit upsetting. Sayaka takes a noticeable pause before responding this time.]

If being sad is enough to make someone a monster.. they probably had that monster hiding in them anyway.</sub>

[disbear]

Students these days are too soft. They hardly even try to pick themselves back up. Test scores are very telling of that. When they fall too deep into despair, they don't know how to climb back up. And that's when the monster takes over. The Monster of Despair.

[text]

[lamentless]

Sayaka

We have to talk

In person

[CAN YOU SENSE THE CONCERN FROM HERE?]

[text]

[beknightedheroine]

oh

okay!

where at?

wait wait

_{[She hastily sets up a lock.]}

okay now tell me where to find you.

[locked]

[lamentless]

I'm in the 3rd floor library

I'll meet you by the start of the science section

[And he'd be there too, anxious and messing with the strings wrapped around his finger.]

[--> switching to action]

[beknightedheroine]

_{[He'll be waiting for a while, but Sayaka does eventually arrive, looking far more lively than when he last saw her - and far more curious.]}

--Hey, over here, Roxas! _{[She waves, then - conversely to what she said, runs up to him.]}

What's up?

[text] because fuq da police

[morituramfides]

I got a pretty good idea.

Anyways, I got something for ya. Not pills this time.

Lemme know when you want it.

[text]

[beknightedheroine]

really? I'm gonna have to bug you for the whole story later, then! roxas wanted to talk to me about something face to face, so i've gotta run and see what's up with that ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

[actionsads]

[lamentless]

[At first, he just stood there and stared at her.

Then, he went for her hands, grasping her palms to look at her fingers- seeking out the ring. This wasn't a time for talking, this was a time for confused action!!!!!!!!]

[text]

[morituramfides]

I'll give it to ya if you want. I'll be in the library for awhile when you get the chance.

rox ;_;

[beknightedheroine]

Eh, Roxas--?

_{[Sayaka lets him with some reluctance don't you know you're touching a zonbi, but gets an alarmed look when she realizes he's looking for her soul gem. She specifically fans out her fingers so that he can see that yeah, it's there?]}

..why are you looking for that?

[beknightedheroine]

oh, cool, that's the way i'm going already. i'll see if i catch you.

he, he ain't even, mad, bro.....................

[lamentless]

Good.

[He heaved a sigh of relief, letting her hand go and resting his own palm against his forehead.]

Okay. Uh... [The most important part was taken care of...but how to approach this subject?] Well, what do you remember? I sort of...need to know if I'm going to fill you in.

[beknightedheroine]

Students and test scores...

_{[S'cuse her, that gets her right off the subject of DIS PEAR.]}

...ughh, are you one'a those teachers who talks in a really patronizing voice? Kids hate that, you know.