[and she has that Thing about only eating food she prepares herself this time around, so! yes she got injured but no she is not breaking that rule. not on a thursday night.]
[well, she's all bandaged up and there is a very, very, very slight way that she favors her right leg - so covered up by lili's pride that it's near impossible to tell
but she just looks surprised at that]
Don't apologize unless you think I handled my portion poorly. I'm the one who directed you both to go ahead, and I don't regret it.
You and Yin Yu would've had the same problem with sharks as I did, I think.
Sharks are dangerous creatures, it is true... but I think most people would have been unable to escape them as you did. You really are quite impressive, Lili.
[but who knows how different it would have been if they'd stuck together... the island wouldn't have fooled lili, and they wouldn't have recognized kaoru. it might have been easier for them to tell it wasn't real as a group.]
[and - it occurs to her now. perhaps she's glad that flayn and yin yu weren't with her after all, and didn't have to experience the fear that she knew once before.]
[she keeps her expression forward, not bothering to look to flayn - possibly not wanting to]
When I was being led out, I knew what they were recreating. An ice bridge over the water with sharks below. They... The fact that they included people from the village already in the water was new, but...
The rest of it played out like the moments leading up to my death.
So I sort of expected to fall through, because I'd already been through it before.
[though as she says it
she keeps her voice level, speaking about it only as if reporting]
[that. sounds horrible? that sounds really horrible. flayn knows that sharks are dangerous creatures. lili surviving one now is impressive - but dying at the hands (...fins?) one? seeing the flash of teeth, and feeling the sting of pain, and watching your blood taint the water—?
awful.]
I did not know. ...I am so glad you escaped them, this time.
[Flayn imagines that it must be scary the second time, too - to intimately know the pain of what's about to happen, but to be unable to stop it from happening. But she won't do Lili the disservice of pointing that out.]
You should not have had to.
[The fact that Lili's been thrown to the sharks twice now... It's so disgustingly unfair.]
He did. I feel... a little tired, but I will be well with time.
[she hopes, anyway. now that they're here, she's going to head in to look for ingredients to make something simple... the simplest thing she can find within arm's reach in the pantry, anyway]
...and you allowed your wounds to be seen to, correct?
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week 1, post-breakin
be up?
but she is. and she's going to head for flayn's cabin pretty immediately, knocking on the door - ]
Flayn? It's me. If you could send someone else to open the door, do that.
[given this is just an us pc that is not possible but like she tried]
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lili doesn't have to wait long? in fact, just moment after she knocks - as she's speaking, even! - the door swings open.
flayn, just about to take a step out of the cabin, looks startled.]
Oh! Lili!
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Alright, where are you going and for what purpose.
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[and she has that Thing about only eating food she prepares herself this time around, so! yes she got injured but no she is not breaking that rule. not on a thursday night.]
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Alright. I'll accompany you.
[as if lili herself is in any condition to be fending off an attacker? but she will at least move to give flayn room to leave her cabin]
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...I am sorry. We should not have left you alone.
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but she just looks surprised at that]
Don't apologize unless you think I handled my portion poorly. I'm the one who directed you both to go ahead, and I don't regret it.
You and Yin Yu would've had the same problem with sharks as I did, I think.
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[but who knows how different it would have been if they'd stuck together... the island wouldn't have fooled lili, and they wouldn't have recognized kaoru. it might have been easier for them to tell it wasn't real as a group.]
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Well, it was my second time, so.
[and - it occurs to her now. perhaps she's glad that flayn and yin yu weren't with her after all, and didn't have to experience the fear that she knew once before.]
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What..?!
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When I was being led out, I knew what they were recreating. An ice bridge over the water with sharks below. They... The fact that they included people from the village already in the water was new, but...
The rest of it played out like the moments leading up to my death.
So I sort of expected to fall through, because I'd already been through it before.
[though as she says it
she keeps her voice level, speaking about it only as if reporting]
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[that. sounds horrible? that sounds really horrible. flayn knows that sharks are dangerous creatures. lili surviving one now is impressive - but dying at the hands (...fins?) one? seeing the flash of teeth, and feeling the sting of pain, and watching your blood taint the water—?
awful.]
I did not know. ...I am so glad you escaped them, this time.
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[immediately.
. . . ]
But it's... alarming, the first time. [softly, a truth that she'd never told anyone but tsurumaru] So I'm glad you didn't have to go through that.
[what she doesn't mention is - it's scary the second time too.]
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You should not have had to.
[The fact that Lili's been thrown to the sharks twice now... It's so disgustingly unfair.]
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[so the same could be said of everyone, right?]
The least we can do is try to spare each other from suffering more than we have to.
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[Flayn wishes she could have done more to spare Lili some suffering, though! Shit!]
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Dick checked on your injury, right? How are you feeling?
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[she hopes, anyway. now that they're here, she's going to head in to look for ingredients to make something simple... the simplest thing she can find within arm's reach in the pantry, anyway]
...and you allowed your wounds to be seen to, correct?
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[but she'll sort of just hang out by flayn then,]
... but I'll be headed out tonight with Ookurikara, so be careful, wherever you're staying.
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[part of her had been worried lili was just going to try to out-stubborn her injuries]
I see. I am glad to hear that you two will be together. Shinobu and I plan to look after each other tonight; she has some medical skill, after all.