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Who: Any/Everyone
When: Day 36, Noon
Where: Everywhere
What: Mingle away.

We have. [keeping his voice even] It didn't work because the spell she had tried to use had already been broken upon arrival.

She's gathering supplies and energy to try another one.

Broken upon arrival...?

[guess who doesn't know how akako actually died]

She hasn't told you, has she?

She told me she was depressed and killed herself, but I don't think that's the whole story.

[. . . wow Akako you are morbid]

It isn't.

Care to enlighten me?

She came here to find me.

What...? You mean- she used magic to find you?

More specifically, she used it to try and locate me in Heaven. [why she thought he was there, of all places, he'll never know]

And in the process, she died and was brought here.

...

[something about that just. not sitting well with him.]

[iiiit's okay, it doesn't sit well with him either. staying silent to keep himself from saying "it's my fault she's here."]

There's no way... if there are risks like that... damn it, there has to be another way...

[He's (agitatedly) mumbling to himself more than anything.]

The gods here mute her powers. She says it's possible for her to come up with another spell, but there's risk involved.

. . . how much are you willing to risk to get back home, Kudo?

[hesitation]

Whatever it takes- within reason. If she tried to bring you back, failed, and died in the process... and now she's not at full power? It may not work at all, or something even worse could result.

How much reason can we afford? It could be that any method available to us for getting back is dangerous.

It's not that I'm not willing to take risks. But what if attempting this magic could have consequences for more than just us? I'm not willing to risk someone else's life to save my own.

. . . and you think I would willingly risk someone else's life for my own? [snort] Come now, Kudo. You know I'm not that kind of person.

But if it were myself, then I'd try anything.

[so we're both semi-suicidal, good to know

still troubled though, more related to the thoughts he'd been having prior to this conversation.]

Have you considered the possibility that we may not be able to return?

[is this news to you. also stiffening]

Of course.

But I refuse to believe that's true.

So do I. But...

[hrnghh]

Maybe I'm just thinking too much.

The moment you give up is the moment we are stuck here forever, Kudo.

I'm not giving up! I'm just- concerned.

[nrrrgh] We both are.

What we're trying to do... you don't find anything wrong with it?

Why would I?