Catch-all: Kainé

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[ sieghart, get yourself a crutch. also, condom splint really is such a concept and i hate it.

... She kind of wants to call bullshit, but. ]

No. Nothing. You?

[ercnerd]

[He'll buy one later, maybe.]

. . . We found the body.

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[ definitely*

She sits down near whatever table he's at. ]

... Where?

[ercnerd]

[Then he'll sit, too.]

The athletics field. He was just outside the building.

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Isn't that where the last one was found?

[ She frowns. ]

I don't like that.

[ercnerd]

I don't, either.

But as much as we dislike it, we'll have to endure another trial tomorrow.

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Yeah, it sucks.

[ To put it mildly. ]

What happened yesterday?

[ercnerd]

[It does suck, and he helps himself to some of that breakfast in order to cope with a full belly.]

Oh, this and that. We were put to the test by a voice around our necks.

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What? What'd it ask you to do?

[ She follows suit. She doesn't necessarily need to cope, but starving yourself is stupid. ]

[ercnerd]

[Word.]

It told us to steal an airship out of the hangar and fly to a nearby island. We managed to thieve the craft, but were shot out of the sky near shore.

That's where most of the damage happened.

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[ an airship.... what does that look like... ]

Did you get hurt from the crash or something else?

[ercnerd]

We only had two parachutes between the four of us. Our water landing wasn't the best.

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[ Oh, that sounds like a shitty time. She doesn't wince, but the sentiment is there even though.... she has no idea what a parachute is, probably. ]

Is that where you got --

[ Everything he has a splint for? ]

[ercnerd]

Yeah. And it's mostly the same for the other three.

But landing in the water didn't kill us. We made it to shore by swimming. From there, we reached a cathedral on the other side of a jungle.

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And then?

[ercnerd]

We faced off against illusions of people we know. After that, we met the owner of the voice, who dropped off some papers.

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[ She feels like he's making this seem simpler than it is for all the injuries they sustained and for how mad people looked coming out of there. ]

Is that all?

[ercnerd]

That's all.

[He watches her for a moment, considering.]

. . . But there were several hiccups along the way. That place didn't follow the typical rules of life and death.

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[ Oh, she's a little surprised because she would have accepted him not saying more. They're not close. ]

I heard that you died and came back to life a stupid fucking amount.

[ercnerd]

[She tried to kill Principal Bear. She can have this knowledge.]

It wasn't that many . . . But it's more than most people would be used to.

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[ ... ]

But not for you?

[ercnerd]

I used to have an invincible body. Death was never permanent for me.

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[ She doesn't have an invincible or immortal body, but she's suffered enough wounds she should have died from and came back, not always of her own volition. ]

... I get that, a little. It's tiring.

[ercnerd]

[Tiring is a word for it.]

Hahaha. That's why I try to avoid getting hit in the first place.

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[ stares bleakly into the future

anyway, ]

That's not always easy to do.

[ The number of times some kind of weapon finds its way piercing Kainé is too many. ]