Meliora - Extricate - 51.5

[lady_mab]

From: Kaito Kid

Uhhh this is going to sound kind of random but is everything okay?

From: General Spartan

??? Define okay, because you sent this at like 4am

From: Kaito Kid

Asdflkj sorry I wanted to send it in case I woke up and forgot to send it

From: Kaito Kid

But Jonas came by for a random visit around last call

From: General Spartan

Did he say something to make you worry?

From: Kaito Kid

I was just wondering if Ayn had said anything about him acting weird lately

From: General Spartan

Not really -- not weirder than normal I guess

From: General Spartan

She doesn’t talk about her team all that much

From: Kaito Kid

Hmmm

From: Kaito Kid

It could just be my imagination then…?

From: General Spartan

Who knows, man, anything involving this game needs to be taken seriously

From: Kaito Kid

Yeah…

From: Kaito Kid

How have Jun and Zoné been?

From: General Spartan

Not good. I don’t think they really want to listen to me right now. I’ve been trying to keep an eye on them, but…

From: General Spartan

They’re both trying to shoulder this on their own, though I told them that I’m here if they need me

From: General Spartan

It could be worse, I guess

From: Kaito Kid

And how could it possibly be worse than it is right now?

From: General Spartan

I could not have them here at all

From: Kaito Kid

Shit

From: Kaito Kid

Shit shit shit

From: General Spartan

Everything okay over there?

From: Kaito Kid

Yeah I’m just

From: Kaito Kid

A little stressed. Things seem to be going tits up all around that I didn’t even think to be thankful for the fact that they’re still here

From: General Spartan

Are you sure that everything is alright?

From: General Spartan

I know that we haven’t really been talking that much lately but I don’t want you to think that I’m ignoring you or anything, or that I expect you to shoulder this on your own as well

From: Kaito Kid

Thanks, Lys, but if I don’t have control of my own situation, then I can’t really be trusted taking control of Rhys and the twins.

From: Kaito Kid

I’ll be good. At least until they’re gone

From: Kaito Kid

Until you’re all gone

From: General Spartan

…. Alright….

From: General Spartan

But don’t hesitate to let me know if there’s anything I can do to help

From: Kaito Kid

Just… I don’t know, warn Ayn or something? Poke around to see if everything is okay?

From: Kaito Kid

She seems like a nice girl I’d hate to think that something might happen to her

From: General Spartan

Believe you me, I’d hate to see it also

From: Kaito Kid

Fair point

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Author: The Lady and the Ghost

My fellow citizens: The time has come for you to start putting up a fight.

A fight to remember -- a fight to be remembered.

Too often something slips past our notice and we let it go by, and too often as of late this has been a person. There are teams dropping from the competition one by one and yet we stand by and do nothing.

Is this how you want to be remembered? The people of the city who let the naivety grow like a cancer until it took over all of her people? The people of the city who let ALICE tell you that something was wrong and then do nothing to fix it?

I am disappointed. I had hoped that by posting to this blog, I could reach at least some of you. That I could convince some of you to act with me.

But instead I have been answered by silence.

Perhaps the silence is because those who would fight are gone. The ones who answered my call struggle to hold on, and you wish to pass by unnoticed.

Congratulations then, to those of you content with the way things are.

Congratulations to ALICE, who is undoubtedly reading this. Does this mean you have won? Does our silence, our stifled cry, mean that the victory is yours?

Who among us has won? Will we win?

In a few weeks time, will there even be any of us left to remember what has happened here? Or will it pass into an uncharted page of Eminence’s history, of ALICE’s ledger, a tally of lives that will never be recorded?

If you will not fight with me, then at least fight for yourselves, and fight to remember the struggle that has gone on here. Remember those we have lost along the way, because the rest of Eminence cannot.

It is the very least that we can do.

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