Week 2, Saturday Post-Trial - Stephanie

[fragileprophet]

[So, Ion's just hanging out in his empty dorm room. He doesn't necessarily feel like talking after what happened today, but...still, anytime anyone approaches his door (he kept it open, expecting the company) he turns toward it with a smile. As miserable as he feels, he can't be disappointed to see any of his friends.]

Hello.

[Ah, he wonders if he's about to hear some kind of lecture. He knows he really worried people today.]

I'm sorry about today.

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[vigilantics]

[ she's definitely not going to be letting go any time soon. ]

We have to believe in him, okay? It's--- it's hard, I know, but I'm not going to let you go.

[ she knows that's a large thing to promise. others probably have to. sandalphon did. ]

[fragileprophet]

[Hiding his face against her, Ion nods. His legs coil underneath himself, and he looks and feels just so impossibly small.]

I couldn't even see it until I thought that I...

[Until he thought that he really was going to die. Until he was faced with the fact that this could be the last night he spends alive.]

[vigilantics]

No one really knows how they'll feel about something until it happens, Ion. Being alive is big and complicated, and sometimes you don't know what your heart wants until it's slipping from your fingers.

[ that's what life is. a series of twists and turns that are unpredictable to everyone, but especially to yourself. and the situation they're in just makes that worse. ]

[fragileprophet]

It...it isn't fair.

[His voice is small, the observation of a child, not the Fon Master. He knows, has always known, that life isn't fair. It isn't fair, but he wants it anyway. Even if things are cruel, he wants it. But why...why something like this? Something so absolutely final?]

[vigilantics]

It's not.

[ there's really nothing else to say about that. none of them chose to be here, but here they are. even the murderers (so far) haven't been given much choice here. it's difficult to hate them after they give their reasoning in the end. ]

You're going to live, Ion.