sevenhorrors | doctor, doctor, give me the news!

Oh, good.

[Rest is good! Mafuyu taking it easy is good!]

Don't let us keep you up. We just wanted to check out where you were living and everyone in your class.

I don't mind for a little while.

( she wants to see them. )

[A flicker of a smile, even though she's trying to pretend otherwise a little.]

Yeah, well... you do look better than before, so I guess it's fine. Why don't you give us the dorm tour?

It's not very big, but... ah, my room is this way.

... And something strange happened. -Oh, but, maybe showing you would be easier...

( ... she turns around and toddle off. ... y. you gonna wait, girl? no? okay. )

Huh? Wha--

[Oh my god there she goes, just wandering off. Ena rolls her eyes to the ceiling, heaves a put-upon sigh that is too deep for the situation, and trots after her.]

Hey, wait up!

-Oh. Sorry. ... It's this room-

( it's not a big living space, so it's not like she abandoned the other to a maze, at leaset? ...she's not going to poke around the others' rooms, so they can speculate probably. the room itself is probably exactly like botan's, but resting on the bed is a dark brown rabbit doll. )

Shortly after we got to the dorms, this appeared. ... It's- mine. From when I was a little kid...

Oh, a stuffed rabbit?

[Maybe "Usagi" isn't so bad a name after all... but Ena hasn't given up on their names matching, even if she still won't admit to it.]

... Wait, what? They grabbed something from when you were a kid? How is that even possible! Did you still have it back home?

( nooo she wants matchies with friends... )

...

Botan, please think of everything I told you about my mother, ever.

[oh right, the turbo bitch--]

...

Okay, but isn't it creepy that they gave you something that you haven't owned in a long time? How did they even do that?

... I don't know. It doesn't make sense. ... But it feels like... an old friend finally came back home.

[... Oh.

She's still creeped out by the implications, but... "an old friend", huh? That's right. Mafuyu's plush rabbit. Mafuyu's lost childhood.

... She should just be happy for her, instead of stressing Mafuyu out unnecessarily over the situation.]

... Then I'm glad. Really. You deserve to have something nice from your childhood. When we get out of here, you should bring it with you.

I want to. ... I might need to keep it elsewhere so it can stay safe, though.

( she'd been running to kanade's place, yes, but- what was her plan?

there was no plan. she had to get out of that house, and anything else was secondary at best. )

... I think you've seen everything of this place that is mine to show.

I can't believe you both ditched me while I was being perfectly social--

[ Poking her head in. ]

[And she just rolls her eyes.]

Don't be dramatic. We weren't that far away. These dorms aren't that big.

Botan asked to see.

( after a moment, she looks down and then back up to blossom and holds up a dark brown rabbit toy. )

I got this.

Oh, it's cute! Is that why you went with "Usagi"?

Yeah, it does make sense... still, I think we can do better now that we're all together.

[Rude, Ena. But also.

Matchies. :(]

We didn't get to help with the brainstorming for you.

No, Hoshimi suggested "Rabbit" as a name after something in my yearbook page when we were trapped. I just... tweaked it a little.

( she pauses. )

I don't mind it as a nickname. But...

( here she feels a bit... bashful? )

I feel a little left out somehow.

Well, we can fix that! Not that I'm a flower expert, but between the two of us, we can come up with something perfectly cute and matching!

Yours Truly came up with a bunch of good ones.

[ Heheheheheh. ]

[She wants to argue this just to be contrary but also... she can't........... Mizuki truly did come up with most of the good names.]

Then let's come up with something that matches, at least a little. There are winter flowers if we want to play off of meaning and your screenname, like Snowdrop or Camellia.

[A beat.

She thinks about Camellia's flower meaning and wrinkles her nose.]

Okay, maybe not Camellia.

( she perks up a little at 'snowdrop'. )

... Hope, rebirth and new beginnings.

( given how symbolism leaks into their work as a lyricist and as an artist respectively, it's no question that she knows the meaning of a snowdrop. that... sounds. nice, actually. )

Snowdrop is cute!

[ Mizuki won't be mad if it wins. ]

But let's see, if Botan's going winter flowers... then I'll go for purple ones! There's Wisteria, or Lavender, or Violet--maybe Sumire? I think bunnies like eating some of those, if you want to still keep that association.

Mm.... Wisteria or Sumire both sound nice... But I think...

( ...

what does she think? she closes her eyes in thought, holding the little rabbit toy close. )

... I think that I like "Snowdrop".

[Ena is going to be insufferable about this--but anyway, this is... fun? Spending this time together in this dorm room. Shitty situation aside...

It's kind of nice to just think about it being fun.]

Snowdrop it is. It does feel like it fits pretty well. And now we all match.

[ Mizuki is already braced for it. ]

Mmhm! Even Botan can come up with some good names when she tries.

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