Week 7

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Well this is all starting to feel incredibly routine. After being trapped here for a month and a half with no sign of rescue, maybe you have just resigned to the idea that you'll never leave this place and that people will keep dying until none of you're are left.

Truthfully, I can't even pretend to make an optimistic about any of this. it's a dark and horrid world you all live in.

There are no new floors today. It seems you finally have access to the whole mansion.

15 people remain]

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Comments

[upgradeit]

. . . Thanks.

[He is wearing the sweater Mabel made him, under Marco's hoodie.]

[scrapplinghook]

[Good . She won't force anyone to wear her sweaters, but it's still really nice to see that they like them!]

Hugs and a nice sweater can make anything feel a little less awful.

[It's almost... TOO optimistic too soon, but Mabel's gotta keep everyone afloat until they can bust out.]

Imagine all the butt him and Kim can kick! You're gunna have to do some super cool stuff to catch up to their total!

[upgradeit]

[Hiro lets out of huff of air that's almost a laugh.]

I might actually have a higher belt than him in karate. [It was weirdly easy to talk about Tadashi in the past tense. Hiro can't manage it for Marco yet.] I never asked.

[scrapplinghook]

Well, you still can. We'll see everyone again soon, right? Probably not soon soon, but... it'll all be okay!

[...]

But it's okay to be sad until then, too.

[upgradeit]

Yeah, we - there's a saying: kishi kaisei. In English it means something like . . . [He tries to think of how to explain it in a way that makes it seem hopeful.] No matter how terrible things seem now, tomorrow could be better.

[Literally, it means something more like "rise from death and return to life." Figuratively, it's more about unexpected changes in circumstances.]</small?

[scrapplinghook]

Kishi kaisei...

[It sounds a bit rough as she says it, but she doesn't mangle the words too horribly!]

That's kinda perfect! I mean... there are a lot of bad tomorrows here too, but they can't all be bad! We'll be able to turn everything around soon!

[upgradeit]

Yeah. Yeah, it's just - important to keep thinking that.

[He says it almost like he's trying to convince himself it's true.]