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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-17 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks. can i meet you in person, while we're at it?
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-17 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
i won't take up too much of your time, then.

[pings europa on the observation deck because i can't think of more locations]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[he does expect it this time, at least.]

I'm managing. [he's healing the old-fashioned way. it's fine.] ... How are you doing?
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-17 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say it's unimportant. C'mon, Europa.

[don't dismiss yourself like that!!]

Yeah, I figured. I just wanted to see how you were doing, and to get those items.
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-17 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not how it works...

[EUROPA!! but he'll let it drop.]

For a ritual remembering the dead, that Shouxue did. Now that she's gone, I felt like I should keep doing it in her place.

[thanks, drone... charles will pat it on the head, before taking the items. then, he looks at europa.]

Would you be willing to do it with me?
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-18 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[he will take out a pen. can we get pens anywhere on this ship? if not, pretend that was totally in his item request too.

he writes down something on one feather, before handing the pen and another feather to europa.]


I wrote down Shouxue's name on mine, so you can write Sheba's on yours.
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-18 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[HELLO? WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME

anyway, he takes the feather from europa, before placing it in the jar with his feathers, one for each of the dead. then, he strikes a match and drops it in the jar so that the feathers can burn safely, as shouxue once demonstrated.

he closes his eyes, as though praying.]
Edited (i forgot SO MANY PEOPLE DIED) 2024-03-18 20:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-19 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[STOP MY GOLDFISH MEMORY DOESN'T GO BACK FARTHER THAN SUNDAY

it's hard to say if charles is, since his mouth doesn't move. and truthfully, he's not praying in any conventional sense—he's not a particularly religious person. in the end, all he can do is send his ambiguous wishes into the great void, hoping that the dead find peace.]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-03-20 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[once he's done—]

Thanks, Europa.