requiemed | pc catchall for ray (selfimmolates)

Even if it would work, I really don't think everyone would go for it. But I don't really like the idea of just waiting, either.

[She sighs, biting her lip.]

Yeah. I want mine to win, but more than that, I just want this to stop. [A beat.] As long as we don't let one of the awful ones stay in charge.

Yeah. In the end, this world isn't my concern, but it probably doesn't hurt to at least avoid the worst-case scenario for it.

[...]

We might get a better idea of how to proceed in a few days. If nothing else... we'll see how the executions go. And, if Julius manages to survive somehow.

[happy thought.]

In a few days? Why do you think so?

[She grimaces, though, with a small sigh.]

I wish we knew who did that. It still seems too weird to be a coincidence.

It'll be the start of a new week. If there's going to be any announcements or whatever, it'll probably be then.

[and then they repeat this cycle again, probably, but he won't say that out loud.

he makes a bit of a face as well.]

Yeah... though with as many followers as Love has right now, even if we knew them all, it'd be hard to pinpoint.

It's just a matter of whether those are actually helpful or not.

[She shifts, holding her cheek in one of her hands.]

For someone with a nice name, it kind of seems like both of their followers that have done something so far suck.

Seems like it. Then again, murder aside, it could just be because Strung Red's an ability that's hard to miss and came up when Itachi was a suspect. For all we know, plenty of people were doing questionable things with their powers this week.

If that's the case, I bet that person feels pretty awful right now.

[She sighs.]

Hopefully it'll teach people to be careful with that kind of thing.

Somehow, I doubt it.

[A small laugh without much humor.]

Why’s that?

Most people would consider understanding their ability pretty important, even if they had to experiment a little.

I mean... For Strung Red, at least, isn't it pretty self explanatory? I mean, they spell it out clearly enough in the list they've got of all the different powers.

Still another thing to see it in person.

The alternative is that they knew exactly what they were doing and wanted to mess with people, in which case there's still nothing to stop them from doing it again. So either way, my point stands.

I mean, if it's the second option, hopefully having it cemented for them that they're putting people's lives at stake is going to stop them. It's one thing to read about and another thing to have it almost happen, you know?

[Or that's what she hopes, at least.]