week 5 - execution & aftermath

[vicedirector]

seven vices execution & aftermath ♫ sunday After everyone has voted, the paper and photos will disappear. Miata will usher everyone outside, only allowing them to grab their coats and weather-appropriate gear, and lead them to the bonfire. Floating in the middle of the flames, a list appears, clear as day. >Gather? victim culprit cast setting rulebook

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[fourleafcleaver]

[Her voice dies in the middle of some other useless mantra and drops into another sob—she can't promise that. She wants to, more than anything, not thinking that she doesn't want to die but that she has to live for Lucy—

But twenty-nine people are going to die here. Help never comes in time. She knows better by now. Small and normal and always picking fights and losing her hold on herself, what chance does she have?]

I— [The syllable dies against another terrible whimper.] —for you. Anything I can do, I—I'll— [She'll try. For Lucy's sake, she'll try, but she can't find the way to say something both reassuring and honest.]

[americanbeauty]

[At the reassuring Lucy pulls her into a tight hug. She's so sorry for putting her through all this.]

Good. Just don't do anything reckless. Just protect yourself. That's all I ask-

[Finally, she's tearing up. She can't say good bye cleanly no matter how much she wanted to. She worries too much about the people she cares for. Always has.]

[fourleafcleaver]

[She nods against Lucy's shoulder, starting to run out of fire and tears and anything. She wants so, so badly to scream.]

Okay. [It's all she can manage once she remembers how to let herself breathe, and she cannot be silent but she has no more words so again:] Okay. Okay, okay, okay, I—I'll try. I'll try.