ontrend | [superhell] catchall for harrowhark

Of course.

[she seems to be watching kuranosuke very intently, looking between him and the fish tank.]

[glances at the fish tank

glances back at her, confused]

[she chews on her lip, nervous, then glances back at the fish tank again.]

We were only taking a walk, I hope we haven't disturbed you.

[well

now he looks even more confused, because who the heck is we]

...no, not at all. I was also just walking around.

[there is no one else here. but she seems to chew her lip when he looks confused at that answer.]

...I haven't seen fish like the ones in this tank before. They're rather odd, aren't they?

Yeah, they're pretty weird. I thought I'd see if maybe there were any jellyfish around...

[he shrugs.]

Haven't seen any so far. Too bad! If there were, I'd have brought Clara for a visit.

Clara? [...] Oh, yes. Your pet.

[she chews her lip again.]

I saw something odd, in the tank. Or, I thought I did.

...something odd? What was it?

[c o n c e r n]

I'm not quite sure.

[she peers into the tank, as though looking for it.]

Will you tell me what you see...?

Sure, I can take a look...

[he leans over to look and -

BAM. BAM.

suddenly, there is a panicked-looking girl on the inside of the tank, pounding on the glass with one hand while clutching at her throat with the other like she can't breathe. which, uh, she's inside a fishtank? it's full of water? of course she can't breathe.

kuranosuke jumps back a good three feet, his eyes wide, before rushing the tank and slamming his hands on the glass.]

TSUKIMI!

[...but in a blink, the girl is gone.]

[oh. well, she sees this this time. oddly, she doesn't react to it at all until kuranosuke reacts.]

...Ah. You saw it, too.

[he just kind of drops to the ground and stares at the tank, his face pale]

What... what the hell...

Come. It's just an illusion.

[she's honestly gentle now, taking his hand and trying to lead him away, much calmer now that she knows she isn't just hallucinating this.]

[he takes her hand and lets her get him up to his feet so they can leave.]

...seriously, what the hell was that... [he rubs at his eyes with his free hand.] ...I should've known better. Should've known there's no way she'd end up down here like I did.

[oh. she frowns.]

I know. Though there is little reason to who wound up down here, is there?

Yeah, not much. I'm still trying to figure it out for a bunch of us.

...Do you know why, as to yourself?

[she chews her lip.]

The demons will give you a reason, but it may be quite suspect.

Haven't really asked them...

[he sighs.]

But who knows? There could be a whole host of reasons. I didn't think I did anything that bad, but maybe I was just screwed over from the start. "Sins of the father," blah blah. There are some religions where bastard children go straight to hell or whatever.

...I suppose that's true.

[she frowns, chewing her lip, bothered by that statement in some way.]

I know why I'm here. But some of you do not belong.

Man, before the murders started happening I would have argued that most of us don't belong here.

[...]

Gotta say, you're one of the ones I can't figure out why you're here. Being gruff isn't, like, damnable.

...It would be a bit foolish to assume that's all there is.

Maybe I'm a foolish person! ...haha, maybe that's why I ended up here.

It is possible you are hiding some grave wrongdoing from me. I recognize it would be strategic to do so. But...

I do not believe you deserve to be somewhere like this. If being foolish is sufficient to damn you, let that system be destroyed.

[she's...so earnest about this.]

[did. did she lose her cynicism this week]

...hey... thanks. That's really nice of you to say.

[damn! no! she just means this! she gets embarrassed immediately.]

Hardly.

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