Shiawase Tres

[isdf]

Who: Class of Shiawase and visitors
When: August 23-September 21
Where: Dormitory (Shiawase)
What: Meetings and visits . . . galore?
Warnings: Hallucinations, mentions of decapitation

Comments

[beathollow]

( if she were the good girl she pretended to be she'd say something like, "oh, no, everyone's comfort matters!" but

she's not.



botan and blossom win out over alla you. sorry. )

Mm, okay. I know it was... rough, but how did Shiawase fare?

[isdf]

We successfully made it through the tests and to the gymnasium. A few of us were injured, but are in the process of recovering.

[They're fine, really. Some of them are just taking things a little harder.]

Is everyone in your class safe?

[beathollow]

... Mostly. Azure was- deeply affected by his fear, and I haven't been able to shake him out of it, yet...

[isdf]

Azure? Is he unresponsive?

[beathollow]

Not exactly. He- seems to think the rest of Kenkou is dead, and won't believe anything we say. He treats us like ghosts haunting him. ... I- ah. I actually came over both to check on everyone and... to give him space because he actively sees me as a walking beheaded corpse.

[isdf]

Yet your head is clearly still attached to your neck . . .

[How does she feel about that?]

If he is is seeing injuries that are not real on his classmates, then I believe he and I are experiencing the same type of hallucinations.

[beathollow]

( SHE HATES IT, THANKS.

ahem. )

... I would imagine, but- he's convinced that it's real. That we're truly dead, ghosts haunting him. Nothing we say can convince him.

[isdf]

Is that so? In that case, I will try to talk to him. While I am but an outsider to your class, Azure is my friend.

[The proper course of action is to reorient a confused person. It won't do to leave Dimitri or his classmates to suffer, either.]

For now, please make yourself at home. Would you like a drink while you wait?

[beathollow]

Please, do. I... I want him to be okay. But I also miss him.

( their talks are one of the highlights of this god forsaken place. and he can't even look at her right now... )

You don't have to worry about that. But thank you.

[isdf]

[If she doesn't want anything, he won't insist, though what she says before that piques his curiosity.]

You . . . miss him?

[beathollow]

He can't look at me, because he sees a headless corpse. He'll barely talk to me, and if he does its about avenging me or... something similar.

"I" do not exist to him anymore, save for another loss to grieve.

[isdf]

[What a peculiar way to word it. And yet, it makes sense to him when she frames it that way.]

I see. It is an emotional distance as much as it is a physical one.

[beathollow]

Yes. And I hate it.

[isdf]

It does sound rather lonely . . . for both of you.

[beathollow]

... It's like he thinks he's the sole survivor in an empty home. I can't imagine what he's feeling right now.

[isdf]

Perhaps not; however, that distance has negatively impacted you and Azure alike. In that sense, you are closer to him than you might think.

[beathollow]

... Oh.

( when he says it like that...

and how long has it been? ... )

You're right... I... hope it wears off soon. His hallucinations, I mean.

[isdf]

I hope so as well. If they are anything like the hauntings from our collective arrival, they may last as long as a week.