[ AUDIENCE: NIER ]

[dormheads]

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[departea]

... yeah.

Everyone at least still comes to talk to me, so I can try to help them in any way that I can, even if it's not much.

[amain]

... Thank you, Annie. I just don't know—what to say.

I don't fault Mandricardo at all. I would be inconsolable if someone took Kainé. I'd want the killer dead.

[ WELL ]

[departea]

No, I... understand. There's some types of heartbreak that are kind of impossible to overcome, even if we know the people end up somewhere else.

[ even if they're okay at the daycare for now, the fact is that they still die. that's not a pleasant experience. ]

[amain]

… Yeah, in the end they’re still taken. No matter what greater power or cause, the heartache doesn’t disappear.

It’d feel… Wrong for me to ask them to make amends so Mabel can return to something.

[ he doesn’t know?? what is the right thing to do? ]

But maybe pretending is what we need to do.

[departea]

I can't really blame you for suggesting that to her. I've been thinking it would probably be better if all of you moved, honestly.

So... we'll just see where we're at in a week, right?

[amain]

Annie, you need people in your dorm. [ NO LONELY! ] ... Yes, we will. It's likely we'll learn more about all of this and maybe the flames will calm.

[ meeting: the voice wants violence ]

Maybe the treehouse will help.

[departea]

Oh, I hope so. It would be nice, right? I know Winter has that... shack.

[ the rat shack ]

[amain]

[ DOn'T CALL KAINE'S SHACK A RAT SHACK!!! ]

Better put Claude to work then, Annie.

[departea]

I think Dimitri said he would help, too.

[amain]

Good for you, right? Seeing both of your crushes work on a treehouse for you.

[ Shirtless men! Maybe! ]

[departea]

[ slfsjlgjsdg she coughs ]

It's not just for me.

[amain]

Who else?

[ don't look at him ]

[departea]

They definitely have other friends here, Nier.

[ she's looking ]

[amain]

[ don't call him out on his side dish of a gay crush annie ]

The appeal is that this tree house and their work is for you.

[departea]

I'm fine with sharing the work.

[amain]

... After everything that has happened to you, you deserve to be a little selfish, Annie.

[departea]

... you're the second person to tell me that here.

[ she sighs. ]

A little hard.

[amain]

... It is hard, but it's nice.

[ He gets it. ]

I've been trying to be a little more selfish here, too.

[departea]

Has it been working for you?

[ trying and succeeding are different. ]

[amain]

... I still wonder if I deserve the nice things that happen, but I accept whatever people give me. Our time here is short.

[ A couple of weeks is short! ]

I think it's been working.

[departea]

... good. Even if you don't think you deserve the good, I think that you should just hold onto what you get as tightly as you can while you still have it.

[ especially in a place like this, where everything can go wrong so very quickly. ]

[amain]

That applies to you, too.

[ me, watching friday inves in fear ]

Be more aggressive. Or something.

[ don't listen to him he doesn't know what he's saying ]

[departea]

Oh, I can be aggressive.

[ the thing she usually gets aggressive about are just fuckin stupid ]

[amain]

Be aggressive about your happiness, Annie.

[ He has seen her hound people, so he knows. ]

[departea]

Hm, so aggressive they think I'm cursed?