GRAVEYARD

[dormheads]

graveyard

students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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[souheki]

Mm.[A slight nod.] All injuries have been healed.

[He's not walking around so he can't show that his leg is better, but the cuts on his hands are gone (and, uh, obviously his murder injuries), so there's that.

It's hard not to listen to everyone speaking, since the room is small, so he's picking up details--but he does tilt his head slightly.]

Doctor Otome did not accompany you again? [Presumably that's a good thing, since it means more people are getting involved and working on figuring this out? Right?]

[heartlands]

[he shakes his head!]

No. It was Byleth this week. The way it works is... Every week, we've had the option to choose a new member to invite. If they accept, they become part of the group that's been - stopping the assimilation. Otome and I invited Byleth last Saturday after the trial, so she joined on Monday, and we invited Luxanna last night before I got expelled. It sounded like she was going to accept the invitation.

[souheki]

[Of course she did, COLA. They'll have to put this information in the papers he's been keeping, though.

But he glances Sieghart for a moment, then back at Rupert.]

Kainé?

[IS ARA INVOLVED OR DID SHE JUST CAUSE CHAOS FOR FUNSIES]

[heartlands]

[...he shakes his head, frowning.]

She's not part of the group.

[proud of ara!]

[souheki]

[HMMMM. His brow furrows.]

...Could someone have explained the situation to her privately? [Or is there an outside force at play, here... or is Kainé just a crazy murderer...]

[heartlands]

I don't see how anyone could have. Chad was the only one who seemed to know, and he knew how dangerous it could be to tell anyone else.

[souheki]

[Very strange, thinks Lan Wangji, who does not know Ara

But that kind of confirms something else they'd wondered.]

So there are consequences.

[Rupert and Otome hadn't seemed the sort to keep quiet if there weren't, but... well. They're still strangers, at the end of the day. Lan Wangji isn't a suspicious person, but he's not naive, either.]

[heartlands]

...There are, and we don't know what they'll be, or who they might effect. If it was just something that would hurt me, that would have been one thing, but...

[he sighs.]

But - for what it's worth, I am really sorry. I wish this didn't have to happen to you, either.

[souheki]

Mm. [Just a noncommittal, affirmative noise. He's not upset, but he won't reject the apology.] Lila and I have begun documenting our information. Please add to it when you can.

[The papers are floating around somewhere but here is an easy link for Elis. Lan Wangji, for his part, doesn't seem terribly surprised by this news, but his shoulders do relax the tiniest bit. There is, of course, always the chance that Rupert is lying, but--well. What good would that do him here? It seems unlikely, especially given what Lan Wangji himself experienced.]

If your information is correct, it is temporary and necessary. [He's not exactly delighted to be dead, but he's a pretty calm dude in general, and besides, it's something he works with on a regular basis. The concept of consciousness after death isn't a new one to him--he has his own concerns about resurrection, but they are the worries of a cultivator, and may not be applicable in this world.

If Rupert is wrong, that's a problem--but they'll deal with that when it comes up.]

What is the overall goal? To bring everyone to this side? [Once they're dead, how does that help them get back home?]

[heartlands]

I will. There's some stuff about the role I was in specifically I can add, I'm pretty sure.

[he nods at all of that, looking towards the paper. there's a small but grateful smile once it's apparent he isn't angry about it, or at least not angry at rupert specifically.]

No, not to bring everyone to this side. It's... [he pauses, trying to think about how to word this.] I'll write this for everyone, too, but Chad let us know that this is kind of... a trial run for this world. Like, if it succeeds in assimilating a bunch of us, it might treat that as a success and repeat the process with other people from other worlds in the future. But, he let us know that if we continued to sever the ties each week until the school year ended - about eight weeks total - it wouldn't be able to keep us held here any longer. We could all go home, and it would probably treat that as a failure.