audience: shirasu

[cyclists]

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[cyclists]

If I can help it, I'm delaying the living from dropping below ten as long as possible. We can't interfere, but that doesn't mean I can't talk to people and try.

[wagashis]

Trying to get them to take their time and learn more first, I take it...?

Good luck. I do have a feeling you'll need it.

[he pauses there, though, thinking if something, and while he seems uncomfortable even bringing it up:]

...that task I was working on before it became impossible, when I asked you to help me control the darkness-- do you think it would be any use to any of them to finish what I started? It seems like it'll be of no use to me here, but... I can ask someone there to speak with you about it if it might be worthwhile.

[shirasu doesn't exactly want to help, but on the other hand... well. knowing they might come back helps. it's not a certainty right now that he can't get some degree of what he wants in the end.

doesn't mean he'll like it, though.]

[cyclists]

[A nod. That's exactly it.] ...normally, I'd say yes, but...let's just say I tried talking to someone about the potential of darkness lingering in them and trying to figure out how to work with it and it didn't go so great. So maybe not.

[wagashis]

Just one though, hm. Perhaps if I sent it to the right person, but... most of the ones I know well are here. The people I'd send to you from that side are a very short list, and I don't know how well they'd react, either.

[...there's a frustrated huff, after a moment.]

Not being able to handle these things myself truly is an annoyance. Having to help them from here if I want to live isn't how I ever intended to end up.

[cyclists]

You still have an interest in any of the people who're left on that side? [That's surprising.] I don't think any of us ever planned for this, Shirasu. Otherwise we would've made things a lot easier before now.

[wagashis]

I never minded Emma. Or North, really. Shess is a frustrating individual, Milla is entirely too strange, I find Axel tolerable enough, and the rest are largely unremarkable.

[these are shirasu's opinions for the day, you're welcome.]

...but I know. You're not the sort who'd have made things this way, I think.

[cyclists]

I'm actually a little impressed you have enough opinions. [Thanks Shirasu. But he sighs.]

...the Organization was a group that worked closely with the light and the darkness, but we never knew the full truth either. Being in a situation like this...there's a lot I'd change if I could.

[wagashis]

I always have opinions.

[shrug!!]

... if you were able to do this the way you wanted, then, how would you change it?

[cyclists]

I'd want to be able to tell you guys everything right away so you knew what you were working with and didn't potentially block you into a specific ending without a choice. There's a choice now, but I wonder how different things would be if you knew about everything going in. We'd give you a larger range of training for your abilities, too. With the Organization, we used to train every day and go on missions...it was a lot of boring field work, but it taught me to fight. Axel's the one who taught me the basics, too.

[Mom...] I'm just tired of secrets. Aren't you?

[wagashis]

...I'm not sure. They're something I've always traded on, after all, and I keep a number of my own. I can understand when there's a need for them.

[...that's him personally, though.]

But I'd be lying if I said it hadn't been frustrating, not knowing exactly what we were working with. What we were meant to do, what the options were.

[cyclists]

Right, see, that's where I'm coming from here. If we at least knew what options we had we wouldn't be wasting time trying stuff that might not even work. And that's what really bugs me about this place besides the whole killing part.