posted at like 2am. un: supersenses

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Hey Ive got an open question for you all: Why do you go on the super optional death missions?

Ive been on them too because...Nightfall is everyones problem and since I can do some stuff normal people cant I kind of felt like I had to? But I never signed up to be a soldier I signed up to be a student. I got all this training to be a human blender and I got this cool daemon horn sword but

I hate knowing how to kill people and I hate that I know what it feels like to be stabbed

I dunno maybe I want to see if Im just being selfish. Might delete this in the morning

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[bolderfell]

[Like others who shall not be named, Therion doesn't want to answer this publicly. Instead, when he passes Kohaku's desk on the way out of that math class he has with her, a folded note lands silently in front of her.]

To answer your question from last night:

Got backed into a corner and I took a bad deal. Now I just do what I have to to survive. In my case, that means going on those "missions." Doesn't seem to in yours.

[He doesn't stop to see if she reads it, just slinks right on out the door. If she wants to catch up to him, she will.]

[infestedcouncilpresident]

[A pickpocket's worst enemy is someone who sees the whole world in slow motion and can hear your heartbeat. She noticed, read the note, then ran to catch up with the guy who OBVIOUSLY had dropped the note.

She kind of fell into step next to him and handed the note back.]

Hey...

[bolderfell]

[He glanced at her, sighed, and slipped the note into his pocket. Out of sight, out of mind; but yeah, he didn't deny it was his.]

Hey.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Kinda hard to sneak up on me, sorry.

[A moment of silence.]

You okay, dude?

[bolderfell]

Can't complain.

[But does he mean he has no complaints to make, or he just can't make them here on campus, where he can't tell who, or what, might be listening? After a pause, he quietly adds:]

I'm not the one who was up late with the moral quandaries.

[Is she okay, dude?]

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Oh you can always complain. Sometimes you have to.

[She gave Therion a sidelong look, with mild concern.]

Apparently no one else around here will ask them if I don't, so I figured I'd say something. Maybe I'm full of shit but it's a conversation that needs to happen.

[bolderfell]

[Even with that sidelong look, it was clear he was even more tired than usual. He rubbed the corners of his eyes and sighed.]

It's a conversation that could get some people in trouble. There's more than a few students who never signed up for anything, let alone the fighting.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

[Honestly they both looked pretty tired.]

That seems illegal? Like war crime illegal.

[bolderfell]

Funny how often illegal things still happen, given how illegal they are.

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Well, maybe they'll happen less if we actually talk about them.

[bolderfell]

[Sigh.]

It isn't your problem.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

I'm on the student council. You're a student. It literally is my job.

[bolderfell]

What, do you get paid? No it isn't. Just drop it, I only said anything so you could have some perspective.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Fine whatever. But I have the option to not do this shit anymore so I'm taking it.

[bolderfell]

Well. Good. There you go.

That's the smart thing to do.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Yeah. It's really the only choice that makes sense.

[bolderfell]

...Gonna go home, then, or stay here? I mean, the missions have a way sometimes of following people back to campus.

[infestedcouncilpresident]

I'll stay. All the weirdness aside it's a really good school that'll look great on my record.

[bolderfell]

[Snort.]

Wow. All right. Guess a good education really is a matter of life and death for some people.