CAPTIVE GAME: LiliS & Eichi

[idolpro]

[ You're in a room with no doors or windows, about the size of a living room. Depending on how many of you are around, it might feel a little cramped. The walls and ceiling are draped with fabrics, the floor covered in colorful rugs and piles of sitting cushions, but you can see the dirt ground and untreated wood walls peeking through in places. There are three or so oil lamps to light the space, each placed on a stump-like round little table that isn't big enough to hold much else. It's kind of cozy, but...

Most of the cushions are embroidered with an array of colors, but there's one pillow in particular, set aside from the rest, that's one solid color – Iris's position color. ]

Comments

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

...Oh!

[completely unhurt aside from a small cut on a finger]

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ hi i have a gun shoved in eichi's mouth and edelweiss cut off his wing and cori's on the floor and ]

-- Iris!

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

[uhhhhhhhhh]

Is... is Cori-san all right...?

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

He-- shot him.

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

[her expression hardens]

I see.

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ at least amaranth is taking care of him now, tho cypress isn't moving yet ]

Are you-- are you okay? Did anyone hurt you?

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

No, they didn't do anything to me. They were just about to use a power to make me cry, but... I'm unharmed.

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ oh. her shoulders slouch a little with relief. ]

Oh...

...

I-- I'm glad.

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

What about you? Aside from Cori-san, are the rest of you okay?

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ she nods ]

He only got the one shot off-- and then Amaranth knocked him down, and Edelweiss hit him...

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

...You're all so strong. I'm glad.

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

... mm, they are.

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

You as well.

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ ...

????? ]

I didn't do anything. I reacted too late.

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

Even if you did... you're so composed, even after something like that. Many others would have fallen apart.

Re: RESCUE

[vitainmorte]

[ ...

seems. troubled by that. ]

Oh.

Re: RESCUE

[rootoflove]

It's a good thing.

1/2

[worthathousand]

[ Even if she can't come over immediately—she's still partway through bandaging Coriander's shoulder with a kit that apparently she really was just carrying around in her bag—Amaranth looks up right away.

A relieved expression and an attempt at a smile are the best she can offer, in the moment. ]

2/2

[worthathousand]

[ As soon as she can, though, she steps quickly to Iris's side, and pulls her into a hug. ]

Re: 2/2

[rootoflove]

[huggggg]

What happened here, Amaranth? Why did that man shoot Cori-san?

Re: 2/2

[worthathousand]

Because he's a fool of a boy.

[ a pause; then, a little softer- ]

He was frightened. So frightened that he wouldn't allow any to reassure him. And so he did what cowards do: he invented a source for his fear, and lashed out at it. Coriander was helping undo his bonds, and so he was nearest.

Re: 2/2

[rootoflove]

Ah.

That really was foolish.

Re: 2/2

[worthathousand]

Yes.
But I suppose that can happen, with men—even ones not yet out of their youth.

[ then, eyes lowering ]

It need not have happened, but I certainly owe BARiTONES an explanation when this is all over.

Re: 2/2

[rootoflove]

[sigh]

Men really are like that, aren't they...

I'll go talk to BARiTONES as well, I think. It might be easier if it's someone who wasn't directly involved in the incident.

Re: 2/2

[worthathousand]

It shouldn't have to be your burden to bear.
[ though that's not a "no" ]

BARiTONES has been hurt so many times; unlike LiliS, their troubles have not eased.
And now, because of all this, we've wound up fulfilling that pattern once again.