[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]
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Re: Wednesday vs Intensity
[She's seeing something else--
[No. No. It isn't real: Cloud Nine can't touch the memories, bursting like bombs before her eyes, but it can handle the panic, dam it, keep it from touching her. He's lost, Wednesday reminds herself. He's lost, and that's the end of it. All she has to do is wait this out.
[Wasn't this what they all wanted?
[She's not supposed to try to lose. She's not supposed to try to win. What is she meant to do then, what then if this isn't it either?]
Then what do you want?!
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I want you to look me in the eye.
This is what you wanted, right?
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[If nothing she does is right - not fighting, not giving in--
[What is she even supposed to do?]
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What was that about then, hmmm?
Just an h o n e s t mistake?
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[He laughs]
Cotton Candy, I just want you to start accepting the reality of the situation you're in.
You're not a good person. None of us are. All liars and murderers doing what we think is necessary to achieve our own goals.
Ah, but you and yours think you're better than the rest of us, don't you? All the while being so cowardly. Is that why you didn't even stop to look before you pressed that button?
Who do you think you are to condemn entire units to death and pain and then ask me for my understanding?
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[No, it's not right. He's got it backwards, he's got it wrong. It's always the worst possible answer, the worst version of yourself: that's all he ever gives you. It was snowing then, too, the last time he talked to her like this...
[She should just let go, shouldn't she? Just let herself cry.
[Wednesday doesn't. Because he's not right. He's not right. She didn't look because hesitation meant death; because speed was all she had and it was only barely enough. Because maybe, maybe she's that kind of person, maybe she thinks she's better: not Cobalt, though. Not Yugi and Nova and the others. Because she stopped expecting him to ever understand her after that evening in the park.]
I never wanted that! Stop - you're doing it again, stop putting words in my mouth then telling me how awful I sound!
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Just what were you trying to accomplish?
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[Because it's all she can do.
[Why should she be so different from everyone else?
[Why is she the only one who shouldn't fight?]
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[If she has to pick someone--]
I know they died!
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Why are you looking for my understanding?
You already made the call.