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foxhounds ([personal profile] foxhounds) wrote2015-08-29 01:28 pm
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night six - kill log.

Who: Killers and Pearl
When: The sixth night
Where: The jungles of Ship-Trap Island

[ It's the dead of night in the jungle. Considering the Hunt, you have to wonder if you're actually safe out here, but it at least seems quiet. Maybe you could try getting some rest, or maybe you should keep watch. Either way, that quiet may not seem very comforting. ]
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[personal profile] pearlturbed 2015-08-31 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ this wasn't me at all, she wants to say. this desperation, this-- struggle, she's had, reckless accusations and powerlessness and... all of this, she doesn't want this to be her. his words, the compliment, brings her no relief... it's a small bandage on a festering wound, but like the death he promises her... it's something.

she wasn't the first, judging from the blood she catches on his clothes, and she won't be the last. her eyes remain on him, the calm, graceful him so different from what he's shown her tonight-- and she releases yamato.

i couldn't win with you. for you, she thinks.

there would have been no response to kasen's words from pearl. she's plagued with hopes that perhaps she will come back, regenerate, that perhaps kashuu will forgive her for being unable to do what she said she would. that yamato would forgive her for not getting to the point where she felt comfortable, wearing his haori. that hijikata and clarine are alive the next morning, and will forgive her for being unable to join them. and, the last thought she has, the most important, the one that makes her shut her eyes--


i'm sorry, rose.


--when the blade finally strikes her. ]