Day 178

[sunflowerfields]

[Hinawa immediately threw her complementary mirror on the ground and stomped off back to the carnival upon hearing what the last 'challenge' would be. She doesn't know or care who might be paying attention to the radios, she just wants to yell into the ether more than anything.]

This is barbaric! How can anyone agree to this!? They're going to die!

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[sunflowerfields]

Choices? Our choice now is to murder our friends, our families, or leave them in the servitude of a monster. What choice is that?

How do we know he's not going to kill them for good? He's already broken so many of his own rules.

[soft_focus]

....She let me choose to join or not. ....Even when what I joined for wasn't something she liked. [She could tell THAT MUCH making the contract. Anyway. When it comes to breaking rules, Reira pauses- And very curtly replies,]

....No he didn't.

[Hinawa he found loopholes, there's a difference.]

...If you really, really want someone not to find a way through a rule, you have to say it right. ....You don't think she's doing that now, after what happened..?

[She swallows on the other end of the radio, shaking.] ....this...

....it's not her fault. ...She told us to listen to his rules. ...We didn't do that.

Even if what happened when we broke them wasn't 'okay'.... ....he didn't say that wouldn't happen. ...And he didn't say what would happen, if we broke a rule. And...

...I don't think she knew either.

[sunflowerfields]

Your contract is to work for her, not die for her. Or murder for her.

She did not have to bring us to this place. For all her power and influence, she led us into a trap.

[soft_focus]

Working can still be killing.

[But that's beside the point.] ....Do you really think she'd bring us here on purpose?

...because... ...her hate for him hurts more than anyone's hate does.

...And...she didn't like that we were going even before we went. ....So I don't think she had a choice either.

[sunflowerfields]

The Ringmaster has so much magic, she's so powerful, why couldn't she stop this? I've seen her do it before.

[Like the time she turned into a dragon and ate Amy Poehler Satan. C'mon man why can't she just do that again.]

[soft_focus]

....Because he keeps hiding.

[Duh.] ...Even if she's stronger now, he knows that.

...And if nothing could break the house before, I don't think anything will break the house now. Especially if the Prince wants the house to stay strong.

....and...

...he owns them too. [The house, she means. That bit, she knows from being a servant.]

...Being the most powerful doesn't always work. If that always worked, I don't think I'd be here anymore.

I wouldn't even be at the Carnival, I think...

[sunflowerfields]

[She wants to know why a child would think like this. Children shouldn't think like this.]

Why wouldn't you be here?

[soft_focus]

....I'd definitely be dead, a long time ago, I think.

[Thereeeeeee's your sign-]

I can hide, and listen really easy, even now that I know how to say no, but I'm definitely not strong.

[sunflowerfields]

[WHY CAN'T I HOLD ALL THESE LIMES TRAGIC BACKSTORIES]

....

I don't think you give yourself enough credit.

[soft_focus]

....No I definitely can't lift a lot.

[Hinawa please.] ...I'm fast I guess, but I can't lift a lot of things.