Catch-all: Alex

[soulus]

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[chanteuser]

...

Oh, does that explain the, uh--

[ she motions at the flowers ]

[soulus]

Yes. They must be the effect of sleeping here.

[chanteuser]

I see.

🎵 They look quite nice on you, actually. 🎵

[ oh ]

[soulus]

. . . Did you stay in the music room?

[chanteuser]

Yes.

[soulus]

Was everyone there accounted for?

[chanteuser]

None of us are dead, if that's what you mean. We're all randomly bursting into song too.

[soulus]

Who else was with you?

[chanteuser]

Hansa, Chiron, Emet-Selch, Alphonse, Claude, and Ochako.

... Who was with you, Rufus?

[soulus]

Fiora was.

[chanteuser]

[ oh. ]



Oh, I see.

[soulus]

Removals are necessary to retrieve participants. We knew this would be a possibility.

[chanteuser]

I know. But we can still be sad we lost people.

[soulus]

. . . Is that not the reason we're still here?

[chanteuser]

We're still here because we get sad?

[soulus]

Have you heard about the final report?

[chanteuser]

I've heard a lot of things recently, just specifying might be easier.

[soulus]

It was our choice to repeat the competition.

[chanteuser]

[



this is all you're getting tbh. just this face. ]

[soulus]

We were unable to save everyone during the previous cycle. This cycle is meant to undo those losses.

[chanteuser]

[ oh my god she does not like hearing her memories have been completely taken from her. twice. three times? god how many times has alex benedetto lost her damn memories at this point answers on a postcard please.

give her a moment, she's just pressing her hands to her mouth and taking some slow breaths so she doesn't panic ]



And, what, everyone forgot everything to the point we didn't even remember that?

[soulus]

. . . Yes. Everything was reset.

[His tone is as even as his answer. It's unpleasant news for someone like Alex, but he won't keep her in the dark for that reason alone.]

[chanteuser]

[ she hates that. ]

And now we're here, scrambling away at the end again.

[soulus]

This is the last cycle. There won't be another chance after this.

[chanteuser]

... So we really can't mess things up.