WEEK 7

[petoskeymods]

WEEK 7

A new counselor, and a brutal execution. Camp just continues to surprise, doesn't it?

The rain is back, though this time it is in sprinkles and light showers. It helps bring the temperature down, but in the breaks between those mists the humidity is brutal.

The WiiU is still here, but for some reason none of the games will play. Instead all you can do is watch the faceless Mii on the Mii menu while the remaining Miis (minus Floe, Gonta, and Shirou) cower off to the sides.

Eleven of you are left. You have made it past the 'keep ten alive to the start of week 7' warning that Red gave, but what will happen now? Is this it? Is this who will survive? Or will more death happen? And what's going to happen to the dead?

A lot of questions still need answering.

11 CAMPERS REMAIN.

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[killtheanimals]

[Tick-tock, the sound of his father's voice still manages to get through. Tick-tock, he can hear a knife hitting the ground, and he jerks away slightly as though trying to avoid that invisible blade. But eventually, he just curls up on his side as tightly as he can, focusing on the sound of the watch.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

Sorry, Kirijo, but he's not terribly responsive right this moment.]

[fallbymyhands]

[he sure isn't, and she immediately drops down at his side. she doesn't reach out for him, because that seems like a bad idea-- she doesn't want to induce him to lash out at her. but. . .]

Ashikawa? Can you hear my voice?

[killtheanimals]

[Eventually, the sounds fade, and--

-oice?

He cracks his eyes open, breaths coming quickly, adrenaline pumping in spite of his relative weakness from hunger.]

--Kirijo?

[He sounds so weak.]

[fallbymyhands]

Yes. It's me.

[and now she reaches out, fingers brushing against the top of his head]

. . . it looked as though you were hallucinating.

[just as they all have been over the past few weeks]

[killtheanimals]

[He's silent for a moment, blinking out of reflex at the touch.]

...It's always the same ones, but I can't seem to get used to it.

["Get used to it." That's always been his approach before, but something about these never ceases to strike terror into his very core.]

[fallbymyhands]

"Get used to it?"

[oh, Ashikawa]

Don't be ashamed. It isn't. . . fair, that the camp is forcing us to relieve our worst nightmares like this.

[killtheanimals]

[He shuts his eyes tight, shaking his head lightly as though to dismiss the last of the hallucination. Scooting his body into a sitting position, if still somewhat curled.]

It's... dangerous. [Shirou proved that.]

[fallbymyhands]

[. . . Shirou, Usagi, Boa. . . all of them who had wound up accidentally killing someone else because their mind played tricks on them]

Do you remember when I was hallucinating an enemy last week?

[. . .]

I felt the same way.

[that she, too, was dangerous]

[killtheanimals]

[He cracks his eyes open finally, gaze directed firmly at the ground.]

...I've been able to avoid attacking, at least.

[But on the other hand--]

I'll be too vulnerable. If it happens at night.

[Like on Thursday, say.]

[fallbymyhands]

If you make plans with someone to watch over you during the night, that would help the vulnerability problem.

[of course. . .]

I know that's a very large task to trust someone with. Especially in circumstances like these.

[killtheanimals]

[There's a pause, and then a reluctant nod.]

I don't like to have to, but there's someone I can ask.

[He couldn't make it this far completely oblivious to his own vulnerabilities, especially when it can mean a matter of life or death here.]

You've probably got others in mind for the same reasons, I assume.

[fallbymyhands]

I do.

[. . . perhaps she isn't as jumpy about it as Ashikawa, because she isn't on the "final protocol" list. but last week's events with the hallucinations, with how she lashed out, do make her nervous]

Mutual accountability is a powerful tool.

[killtheanimals]

Especially with someone you can trust to have your back.

[Or at least trust to have the morals not to resort to murder. The calculations have been run and the bar is somehow so so low.]

[fallbymyhands]

[there's a pause as Mitsuru considers her next response. and then. . .]

I'm happy that you've managed to find people like that here, Ashikawa.

[especially considering how much he's been through]

[killtheanimals]

More that there's people here who I don't think would bring themselves to kill, is all.

[Correcting that perception immediately. Because, well, the one person he did absolutely trust to have his back...

That person isn't here anymore.]

[fallbymyhands]

[that's fair. she certainly won't argue the point]

Even so, being able to trust people even in that capacity is. . . difficult, in this sort of setting.

So I'm still glad.

[killtheanimals]

Red once called this group a bunch of "good kids," and I can see why.

[You're all softies.]