Week 3, Friday Post-Investigation - Sanji

[fragileprophet]

[Oh cool, great, more people are dead and there's smoke everywhere. Ion can't even make it into the kitchen, honestly. Even if the smoke is billowing out, he's in the doorway coughing, his weak lungs struggling against the foul smell. Gripping the wall, his legs bend, but he manages to keep himself held up.]

What happened? Who would've--

[This is horrible? THEY EAT FROM HERE?]

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[fragileprophet]

...I don't know.

[He wishes he knew. He feels like he should know. But at the same time...at the same time...these are thoughts and feelings that have always been beyond him.]

I hope so. I don't even know if I can say them. I don't know if I have enough time even for that much. I just...if I could have one thing, just for myself...

[His throat tightens.]

Have you ever thought that you could just accept anything that happened to you if you could only see someone's face one more time?

[concasse]

... Yeah.

I know the feeling.

[He knows the feeling well.

And he has no right to take that away from Ion, even if it results in his death.]

Who knows? Maybe if you go back, you'll get that one wish. There's no harm in hoping.

[fragileprophet]

[Ion feels his knees start to shake, and he falls back more heavily against the stone wall, his eyes shuttering closed.]

Maybe.

[He doesn’t sound so convinced.]

The more time that passes, the less sure I feel.

[He accepted it before: that this was all he had left. Just that one moment. But now...now...he finds his thoughts wandering more and more. What if there was another world for him? Another future, another life? Can he even ask for both? How much is too much? How much is just a dream?]

...no harm in hoping.

[At least not yet.]

[concasse]

[...]

Neh. Why don't you write her a letter?

[he's not sure where the idea comes from -- maybe all this talk of communicating with the dead has had an effect -- but it's the best idea he can come up with on his quest to lessen Ion's obvious distress.]

Maybe it'll never reach her, maybe it will... but it can help you sort out your own feelings.