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[lightmischief]

After the vision, and realizing that they still have an hour before the curfew, a message shows up on their program...

Luci: Finally! Human minds can be so fragile...

Luci: You saw it, right? What do you think?

Luci: Does it make you angry or terrified?

Luci: I don't really care but if you answered yes to either of those, good!

Luci: I've got presents for you, lambs.

Luci: Once an apple falls from the tree, it's hard to stop gravity.

Luci: They will try.

Luci: Already a few of you didn't make it.

Luci: But you are all stronger than you look! Amazing, I know.

Luci: SO LISTEN UP! See that dot on the map?



Luci: No? Maybe arrows will help?



That's where you saw that vision.

Luci: It's just about twenty minutes away from the central part of Green Valley's fancy-ass school. You know the 'World Famous' apple orchards out in the back? The very first subway station?

Luci: If you want to know more about what you saw and any other questions that might be burning in your mind, I suggest you hop into the underground city subway and wait until midnight strikes then sneak out to it. Don't think the city will care for less than fifty people going there anyway. Staying after darkness is normal anyway, right?

Luci: When we get there, you'll get a brand new message.

Comments

[probablynoteren]

we're not going to die.

[Something in him puts conviction into that sentence. It doesn't make sense. He knows it doesn't. He sends it anyway.]

i didn't want to forget. the shoes, i mean.

[kokuyoyo]

....You seem really sure about that.

[Says the teenager who's been arguing for the very same idea against a few different people...]

[probablynoteren]

i... [he hesitates, he knows he's afraid, but he's realizing that he doesn't know what he's afraid of -- is it death, or something else?] we can't. we'll find a way.

[kokuyoyo]

....We don't really have a choice in the end anyway. Just like usual.

[probablynoteren]

our choice is in how. not whether we do it.

[At least that's what he believes. Maybe he's an optimist, maybe he's in denial, there are a lot of maybes. It's what he's going to work with.]

[kokuyoyo]

And a lot of people seem to have a lot of different ideas on 'how'....

[Shoutout to the molotovs.]

[probablynoteren]

[Molotovs are always with you.]

we need as many ideas as we can get.

[Honestly it's not like they know how to defeat the damn things. He is not even ruling out having to throw his shoes at them by the end of the night.]

[kokuyoyo]

Here's to hoping one of them sticks.

....And if nothing does, at least I've got my last meal figured out. Someone is bringing burgers.

[probablynoteren]

... burgers?

[Somehow that's the last thing he expected to come up at this point, but fighting always makes him hungry so...]

[kokuyoyo]

He volunteered.

[probablynoteren]

[That does not explain anything whatsoever.]

who? and burgers for a last meal...

[OK, that doesn't actually sound all that bad. Even if he isn't on board with the last meal thing.]

[kokuyoyo]

Guts.

They're apparently really good burgers.

[probablynoteren]

[He doesn't recognize the name, but then, there are a lot of them milling about in chat.]

i didn't think to bring food. it's late.

[kokuyoyo]

Do you have anything in your kitchen?

[probablynoteren]

i'd have to double back.

[He's at the school by now... The perils of being too on the ball.]

[kokuyoyo]

[holy shit]

Are you already there?

[probablynoteren]

i didn't want to be late.

[Master of understatement.]

[kokuyoyo]

Well... I mean, you could try to see if anything on campus is open? I know there are a couple of student stores that sell snacks at the very least.

[probablynoteren]

maybe later. after.

[He's not all that hungry at the moment, all things considered, but hey assuming they're still alive later that's when food will hit priority status.]

[kokuyoyo]

....Listen, just make sure you have energy for whatever happens, okay?

[probablynoteren]

that won't be a problem.

[Adrenaline is a wondrous invention, my man. The real question is whether any of them will ever get a full night's sleep again. Well.]

[kokuyoyo]

If you say so.

[Please don't keel over, currently mysterious stranger...]