[ AUDIENCE: LALLI HOTAKAINEN ]

[dormheads]

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[silentscout]

...mmm.

[He goes quiet for a moment, as he usually does when he's thinking about something. But after a bit he speaks up again.]

What's your wish?

[darksubverted]

[He goes thoughtfully quiet for a long moment. Hm.]

I don't know. I guess I'll decide if it happens. If I graduate.

[silentscout]

"If" you graduate?

[darksubverted]

Well... I failed a class last year. Who knows what can happen this year.

[silentscout]

If you fail a class you don't graduate?

[darksubverted]

If I fail a bunch of them probably. Not that I plan on it... but things happen sometimes.

[silentscout]

...

You won't end up like the others if you fail, right?

[darksubverted]

[He doesn't answer for a long moment, and instead frowns.]

...I don't know. I've never not graduated from failing more than one class before.

[silentscout]

...mmm.

[He doesn't seem too satisfied by that answer, but it is what it is.]

Maybe that's what I can save my wish for then.

[darksubverted]

[????? LALLI NO]

What do you mean? You should use your wish for yourself, Lalli. For something you want.

[silentscout]

We're all coming out of this alive. You included. And if it takes my wish to get us there, then that's fine.

[He seems pretty set on this.]

[darksubverted]

[He frowns, but in that way friends do when they can tell you're fucking resolute about something.]

What about your family? The curse? Don't worry about me. Better me than one of you.

[silentscout]

No. There's no more "better me than one of you". Either you get the grades to save yourself, or I'm saving you.

[He! Is serious here!!!]

[darksubverted]

[LALLI. He opens his mouth, but he can't... really argue, or it'd just be them arguing around and around in a circle.]

Okay. I'll get the grades.

[silentscout]

Good.

[A war of attrition, that's what this is. But he nods approvingly at Luke finally agreeing.]

Everyone else feels the same way too.

[darksubverted]

[Sheesh. He drops his head back on the couch again.]

I know, even if they shouldn't.

[silentscout]

[Peering over at him now.]

Why shouldn't they?

[darksubverted]

They have their own problems to worry about. Being stuck here is only one of them.

[Since they're broke out now, I can backdatedly give you a second memory! Until, like, 14:30 because it's funny.]

[silentscout]

[Oh my god Riku you nerd.]

...did you propose to Sora then?

[Destinies intertwined. It's definitely marriage.]

[darksubverted]

No...!

[Why is this the first thing he's adamant about? His brows pinch, and he leans over forward to bring his hands up and hold his head.]

No, I... Don't know--the boy and girl from the beach... but... that never happened...? Who...? I never even... knew their names.

[silentscout]

[Me, forgetting that this is before Riku comes back: welp]

Hey.

[Lalli is sitting up quickly, and he's reaching over to put his hand on Luke's back.]

It's alright.

[He wants to lie and say it could be a dream, or one of Luke's animes. But he's a terrible liar.]

Just breathe.