Kaede "meddlesome minstrel" Akamatsu 🎶 赤松 楓 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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balance_rpg2019-09-14 11:17 am
gotyourbach) wrote in balance_rpg2019-09-14 11:17 am
video; un: akapassionata
[When this message gets sent out, it's around one in the morning. Kaede has clearly been exerting herself, her breath coming hard through her nose, her normally-cheerful expression pale with a sick worry. It took her several minutes to calm down enough to even begin to figure out what she wants to say, and it doesn't feel like enough.]
A-Arisato-kun is missing. He was right here with me like always, but-!
[No, wait, back up. That doesn't make sense. She's standing in what looks like an ordinary employee breakroom, empty save for a soullessly cheerful "ACHIEVE! aim higher!" poster meant for decoration.]
We... we were trying to figure out where the employees all go, because this breakroom is always empty, even when we follow someone in. He tried running his gem into the red, 'cause that's how a lot of the people working here end up working here, but now he's gone!
[Her bracer-less hand goes to her heart, clutching tightly at her armor as her other hand gestures frantically around to pan over the completely empty breakroom. Her voice pitches higher.]
I can feel him with my Paladin's Oath, but he's not here! Please, we have to find him before something terrible happens!
A-Arisato-kun is missing. He was right here with me like always, but-!
[No, wait, back up. That doesn't make sense. She's standing in what looks like an ordinary employee breakroom, empty save for a soullessly cheerful "ACHIEVE! aim higher!" poster meant for decoration.]
We... we were trying to figure out where the employees all go, because this breakroom is always empty, even when we follow someone in. He tried running his gem into the red, 'cause that's how a lot of the people working here end up working here, but now he's gone!
[Her bracer-less hand goes to her heart, clutching tightly at her armor as her other hand gestures frantically around to pan over the completely empty breakroom. Her voice pitches higher.]
I can feel him with my Paladin's Oath, but he's not here! Please, we have to find him before something terrible happens!
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[Well. That's a problem, but no more than the rest of this already is. There's no question about the fact that it's magical in nature, at least.
She shakes her head in response.]
I may seem calm on the outside, but I... it's just from having had a lot of opportunity to practice. When you panic, you make mistakes. I don't want my mistakes to be the reason someone else gets hurt.
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[She takes a deep breath, trying to at least look more like Blake, even if she doesn't feel at all like her. It's hard to focus, hard to think about anything but the fear, the paranoia, the guilt that she knew what Minato was planning to do and didn't stop him. But she tries.]
I... I understand.
[Her hand goes to her heart. She does get that, more than anything. Because she'd been so scared of the time limit in the Killing Game, she'd killed the wrong person. Killed someone who should never have died. She's made so many mistakes, and yet-]
I get it, but... I'm scared, Blake-san.
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[She exhales slowly, pressing her lips into a thin line. She knows it's not that simple.]
I'm scared, too— even if it doesn't look it.
[But they're both still standing here, both still trying to figure out how to handle what comes next.]
We'll get through this together. We'll— we'll help him.