[ AUDIENCE: KAINÉ ]

[dormheads]

Comments

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anywhere private
tea is fine

[azuta]

Come up to my room?
I’ll have tea ready.
The door is unlocked, just knock please.

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[ She goes to the third floor and knocks. She waits a moment before entering. ]

[azuta]

[welcome to the ojou-sama room, kainé!! it pretty much looks as pictured, except the mirror is off the wall and has been turned around so the reflective surface is against the wall. there's a few mementos around, pictures of people from winter dorm, and an origami crane, an origami(?) memento(????), a paper airplane with a snowflake pattern on it, and then something she might recognize as a sketch from nier. it's of viola and crow having a chat, because hei seems to want to curse me to het.

viola is seated on a chaise nearby, pouring tea into two cups]

Welcome, Kainé. Please, have a seat and make yourself at home.

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[ i'm crying. good for hei. if i have to be cursed to het, so do you.

It's a very nice room, and Kainé takes a seat. ]

If I want to make a Lunar Tear work like it does at home, how many vouchers would it cost? It can heal.

[ This isn't her main reason for coming, but if she doesn't ask now, I'll forget. ]

[azuta]

[shut the fuck up

but iris looks pleased at this question]

Once a week healing ability is 8 Vouchers, which I can bring down to 6. It'll be only minor injuries at first, but can be brought up to moderate injuries with another 6 Voucher upgrade - which I'm unfortunately prohibited from discounting.

You can use it freely yourself, or do it through Lunar Tears if you'd like.

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What if I wanted a separate Lunar Tear to function like a potion?

[ So she doesn't have to be around. Just in case. ]

[azuta]

Oh... Clever - it might be a little more expensive. 9 Vouchers instead of 8, which I'd bring to 7. Minor heals and the Lunar Tear has to serve its healing function within the week, or it will no longer be imbued with the healing power. [just to make sure there's no stockpiling]

But the heal could be accessed similar to a potion without you needing to consciously use the power at that exact moment, yes.

[overshaded]

... If the heal ability can be accessed like a potion, I'd go for that.

[ i want to lean on her flower motif. ]

[azuta]

[she nods]

Then we'll make it like that - 7 Vouchers for the ability to imbue one item, Lunar Tears included, with a minor healing ability once a week.

And should you wish to make them stronger, it would be another 6.

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[ does some math and decides to yeet most of her vouchers away why the hell not ]

I'll do that and upgrade.

[azuta]

[another nod]

Thank you, Kainé. I appreciate you coming up with something so useful.

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[ looks at blind auction and looks away ]

Oh, stop it.

[ Too many compliments make her feel uncomfortable. ]

[azuta]

[i believe in kainé btw i've been asking people all day how to pronounce her name because i was just calling her kanye out loud in conversations unless corrected]

But I mean it...

[overshaded]

[ i'm. you and pixi are the same. here is two people calling her name. her post-full possession is just her post-being rolled for murder.

anyway, ]

Enough with the compliments.

[ ... ]

I tried to talk to Caiman, to see if he was affected like I was, but what I got was a fucking who knows because of whatever's going on with him normally.

[ She's going to reach for her cup of tea just so she can have something in her hands. ]

[azuta]

[ . . . hmmmm. she blinks a few times at that.]

So he - wasn't compelled to believe Mollymauk was a killer...?

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Hard to say when he said he doesn't know what happened during that night at all.

[ She doesn't know enough to say why. ]

He just said it felt familiar to something he might have experienced before coming here.

[azuta]

[she pinches the bridge of her nose]

And so... it is perhaps not the same compulsion that moved you, since the cases are once again different...

Will this be an isolated incident? Does that mean the compulsion did not strike this week...? How odd.

[overshaded]

[ If Kainé begins to think her case is isolated, she's going to feel some kind of way. ]

It's - It's not fine that he murdered here, but it's fine if he wasn't like me.

[ In some ways, she kind of prefers if it was just some kind of split personality of Caiman's even if it puts her credibility into the fucking ground. It's still terrible, but at least Caiman doesn't have to feel like she did, if so. ]

I don't want to jump to any conclusions too soon when I still don't know what the fuck going's on. If there are two murders again next week...

[azuta]

[ . . . . her brow furrows at that, confused, and then she shakes her head gently.]

.... we'll continue to look for patterns, Kainé. As is, I do think that the information that you've provided has been helpful. Thank you for sharing it with me.

I do think that there's a pattern here that we need to discern... even if it's just separating which cases may be like yours, like Caiman's, or... like Byleth's.

[and at byleth's name there's a little spike of anger. sorry,]

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[ ... ]

What do you want to happen to Byleth?

[azuta]

[ . . . . ]

Nothing drastic - after all, it would upset Dimitri.

[a longer pause]

... and I am not a person who possesses a natural bloodlust.

[but she's clearly still very tense and angry, so.]

[overshaded]

[ Kainé is someone who has natural bloodlust, and Crow had been warming up to her right before he died. She knows how much Iris cares, and she knows how much Nier does as well. ]

I don't know if anyone plans to do anything with her.

[ She could be a target or she could be saved for a vote, but Byleth just going around, walking free this week has been so funny. ]

[azuta]

[haha!

yeah.

she's spiteful. her eyes narrow and she is so clearly unhappy about it, mouth curling into a scowl before she speaks.]

... people put so much faith in others, even though they've taken from us, and make no attempt to hide that they might act again, don't they? Of course Mandricardo and Catra shed tears for her, and Dimitri will intervene if anyone tries to impede upon her freedom...

But I have no grace or fondness left for someone who's stolen from me.

[overshaded]

[ She shakes her head. ]

If no one goes after her, I'm sure she'll kill again.

[ Whatever prompted Byleth to do in the first place, Kainé can see it being done again even if she doesn't know what's going on. ]

No one's gonna hold that against you. No one wants to lose people they care about.