suitedreams: Rupert

[battling]

don't run me over (with a horse)

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[battling]

Bein' a good person doesn't save ya from death.

[agleam]

I know it doesn't, but...

[he sighs]

We knew it was coming, but - I don't want to act like it doesn't matter just because it seemed inevitable. That's like saying that her life wasn't important. You know?

[battling]

[Humans are so... like this. It's an inevitability that everyone will die one day, and Bradley knows it.]

It can matter as much as ya want it to. Remember her, reminisce if ya want. Just gotta keep goin'. [Keep moving forward. Don't let it paralyze you.]

[agleam]

...Yeah. You don't have to worry, I've been getting a lot of experience with that lately.

[a beat]

By the way - did you have any weird dreams last night?

[battling]

What d'ya mean?

[agleam]

I mean, did you have any dreams that struck you as unusual? Or, like, any dreams at all.

[battling]

Did ya?

I remember the shadows creepin' up the room 'n falling asleep after. Don't remember any dreams.

[agleam]

Yeah... I was climbing up a mountain during a snowstorm, and as soon as I felt like I was going to be able to reach the top, I slipped and fell off.

Which wouldn't be that weird, except I talked to someone else who had the exact same dream as I did, down to like - really specific details.

[battling]

That's fuckin' weird. Somethin' about the hotel? You guys do anythin' similar this week?

[agleam]

We went into one of those doors together, but... I went into those with a bunch of other people, too. We weren't sleeping in the same place, either, so it wasn't tied to one location.

[battling]

Maybe somebody's sendin' out dreams. Anybody die from a blizzard before this?

[agleam]

Not that I've heard of...? But I haven't exactly asked. I wondered if maybe it meant something happened last night on the mountain in the camp, but apparently people found her in the butterfly garden and there was something weird in the gift shop... The mountain is pretty far away from both of those. I don't know if what happened could have spread out that far.

[battling]

Seemed like she was familiar with that camp, yeah? Burned the shirt 'n everything. Don't rule it out 'cause it seems far from the rest of it.

[agleam]

[he nods]

When someone starts off tomorrow by bringing up what we found, I'm definitely going to mention it so we can ask if we can go to the mountain. I just don't want people to get hung up on it if we don't know whether it was really related to what happened.

[battling]

The earlier ya bring it up the better. Even crossin' out a location means less wasted time.

[agleam]

Yeah, I definitely agree. And even if it isn't relevant to the trial itself... It's an easy place to tell everyone at once that something weird happened.

[battling]

Everybody'll be forced to attend.

[Trial has never been optional.]

[agleam]

Weird that's it's, like, the one thing every group has had in common, right? Well, apart from - you know.

[murder.]

[battling]

The death and dyin'? Sure we'll see some kidna execution on Sunday too.

[agleam]

Yeah... I've heard that some groups didn't have the rule where the person who killed couldn't tell us why if we found them. So - maybe we'll be able to find out why this happened tomorrow, along with who did it.

[battling]

Which groups were those?

[agleam]

The people from the space station.

[battling]

Did they talk about it on the first week?

[agleam]

...From what I understand, their circumstances were kind of - unique. The people who killed weren't really the sort of people who would make things easy, even if nothing was stopping them.

[battling]

I ain't a fortune teller, so we'll have t' see how tomorrow turns out.