[Heart Game - Ed, Maya, Roxy]

[carptricks]

[It's dark. You're trying to move forward, but it feels like your limbs are weighed down by chains and shackles. Still, you push. You push and you pull and those chains are pulled taut and strained until suddenly--]

[Something snaps]

[You tumble forward, wind blowing past your face, until you lose awareness of anything around you. . .]

((another run ran concurrent to this one here))

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[fuhrinkaed]

[Well then. I guess we're touching it.]

[soulping]

[a memory]

[. . . guilt and failure lingers afterwards. that kid is going to grow up without a dad, and it's your fault]

[fuhrinkaed]

[...]

It... could have been worse.

[carptricks]

[. . . HOW INSENSITIVE CAN YOU GET]

Are you serious, Ed.

[fuhrinkaed]

...I'm trying really hard to see the bright side of all of that.

Really hard.

There's not a lot to work with there.

So um.

I don't know... how... to make it better. Or ease any of it.

...sorry.

[carptricks]

[bumps his shoulder against Ed's lightly]

S'okay.

Sometimes, the right thing to say is just "that sucks. I'm sorry."

[fuhrinkaed]

...Then...

That sucks. Sorry you had to deal with that.

[carptricks]

[laughs lightly]

. . . thanks.

But I don't know if I'm the one who deserves sympathy in that sort of situation.

[since he's the one who failed to save a life, who made it so a poor young kid would have to grow up without a father]

[fuhrinkaed]

...I think you are.

You both are.

[carptricks]

[mrrrrgh]

[she shrugs, not quite convinced. though he does glance over towards the crates in the corner, as well as the monocle on the table]

. . . anyway! [he claps his hands together]

This area is sad, but also safe. You can hang out here for the rest of the game if you want to.

[fuhrinkaed]

Hah...

Nice as that would be, I have a promise to keep, y'know? There's some hands, and a clocktower that needs them. So I've gotta get back there.

Any good ideas?

[carptricks]

[sticks his tongue out]

I can take you there. Might as well, considering you almost got yourself killed.

[fuhrinkaed]

Sounds good to me. It'd be rude to say no, after all...

[carptricks]

[Kaito lifts a hand, snaps his fingers, and whisks the both of them away]