WEEK FOUR: EXECUTION

[saturations]

EXECUTION: TRIAL BY COMBAT

Sunday morning starts peacefully enough, until around noon, when alarms start going off on your phones. The dreadful noise is accompanied by a reminder of the execution taking place in the Central Node. You can snooze the alarms at first, but they begin to get a little more insistent. If you're being stubborn, you can probably hold out until exactly 1 PM, when an archway opens right in front of you and pulls you in.

Today the Central Node is eerily quiet and empty. There are a few blankets laid out on the grass for those of you who wish to sit instead of standing the whole time. No refreshments have been provided, but the Residents are already there waiting for you.

As the last person enters the node, an enormous archway suddenly opens. This archway once again leads to an area which is pitch black inside, with white and grey dust falling softly like snow. The chilly air feels even colder than before, and you instinctively know you must not approach it. If you try to push through anyway, something is blocking your way. Smaller tears to the same space open in the air, at the very least. You can see what's happening, even if you can't follow.

Because - once the archway is open, Atsushi and Vin alone will begin to walk through as though drawn. All you can do now is watch and wait.

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[disingenuous]

[ i can't keep repeating that roxana is calm in every tag

but roxana will reach over and touch their elbow. ]

[georeject]

[they look back at her and smile. worry flickers through once in a while, before it's smothered and replaced with cautious faith.]

[disingenuous]

[ they are a watching a cute execution date. her feelings are still calm, but the grimness is coming out a bit more. ]

Is it better for them?

[ To have that sweetness first? ]

[georeject]

[...]

It'll be painful, but... no matter how things end, it's worth it to enjoy happiness as it comes.

[perhaps that sweetness will make the aftermath even more bitter; still, that doesn't necessarily negate the value in having it at all.

especially knowing what they do of atsushi and vin's lives.]

[disingenuous]

To have rather than to never have had at all.

[ It's a conflicting emotion, but she understands. If they think the pain is worth it, that speaks measures, too. ]

[georeject]

[they think of vin, sometimes afraid of just that.

... they hope, at least, that she'll be able to hold onto this moment of happiness, rather than only the grief that follows.]