if erin checked the bulletin, she may have noticed a trail of dark soot on the ground that leads away from there... to a thin, dark cloud of smoke hanging over the cemetery. sitting on the ground between the worn gravestones is a familiar shadow. as always, her face is unreadable.
she seems almost still and lifeless, merely sitting there without moving or making a sound. until finally... ]
... Is someone there?
[ she turns her head to look through the haze at erin. ]
[The words make Erin jump a little. She had just...ended up wandering. The cemetery ended up being a place as good as any to end up at, and she hadn't expected somebody to be here. Seeing Kate makes her exhale]
Cor...just me. Trying to get over everything. Absolutely horrible day, you know why.
... I don't know who to be angry at right now. The killers, Ichiban, or Karma... or an unknown number of cultists, who won't even show themselves to us.
[ the more she talks, the more her composure, and her voice, wavers. ]
[She's not sure if more soot coming out of your head is good or not, but better err on the side of caution and not end up with, like, Kate accidentally spilling her sooty self all over the place]
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Week 1, Friday
if erin checked the bulletin, she may have noticed a trail of dark soot on the ground that leads away from there... to a thin, dark cloud of smoke hanging over the cemetery. sitting on the ground between the worn gravestones is a familiar shadow. as always, her face is unreadable.
she seems almost still and lifeless, merely sitting there without moving or making a sound. until finally... ]
... Is someone there?
[ she turns her head to look through the haze at erin. ]
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Augh!
[The words make Erin jump a little. She had just...ended up wandering. The cemetery ended up being a place as good as any to end up at, and she hadn't expected somebody to be here. Seeing Kate makes her exhale]
Cor...just me. Trying to get over everything. Absolutely horrible day, you know why.
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[ her voice is calm and quiet like always, but it trembles slightly. ]
I suppose I'm doing the same.
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[With three people gone, and in terrible circumstances, yeah, of course the mood is real low right now]
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[ the more she talks, the more her composure, and her voice, wavers. ]
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[Thinking about the cultists manages to ignite some of Erin's usual anger, seems like]
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[Since, well, getting upset with someone around here only will make you feel worse and worse, since you probably will keep seeing them for a while.
After all, it's not like we can arrange a three-way tie. Killers will survive!]
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[Shout at them, try to attack them...?]
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and there's a fwoosh as even more soot just pours out of her head. ]
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[She's not sure if more soot coming out of your head is good or not, but better err on the side of caution and not end up with, like, Kate accidentally spilling her sooty self all over the place]
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... We've lost some dependable people. It's going to be very difficult to make up for their absence.
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[Easier said than done when you have done it successfully, Erin. Also much harder to do when there's, you know, possession]