RUFUS ✬

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[soulus]

She declined.

[reconnective]

Is she the one who pulled you out before things got too bad? [rufus your hands.]

[soulus]

She smudged the circle. We failed that lesson.

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...you would have totally evaporated if she hadn't, it sounds like. What kind of lesson is that?

[soulus]

Seeing as it was disrupted, there's no way to know for certain.

[reconnective]

...so what happened after those lessons? If you didn't "learn" them...

[soulus]

We were sent to the auditorium, where we regrouped, for graduation.

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And graduation was...?

[soulus]

That was the moment someone had to hang. I hanged myself first and was stabbed before I died.

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[yikes.]

...I'm sorry you had to go through that. That's a terrible graduation present.

[soulus]

It was necessary to progress.

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Even so...it's not like you've ever done something like that before, have you?

[soulus]

Is it not terrible if I've already died once?

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...well okay no, but...that doesn't change that it's bad either way, Rufus.

[soulus]

It doesn't matter. I woke up in the end.

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[it matters. but he gets the feeling he can't get rufus to change his mind on that, so...he nods.]

That's better than not waking up, you have a point. Did you guys find anything while you were there? Besides the tuba and the yearbook.

[soulus]

There were cookies, but nothing like a note.

[reconnective]

We didn't get a note or anything either. [at the inn, sora follows rufus still but glances around.]

...you should rest for the rest of the day if you can. It'll help.

[soulus]

[Rufus pauses before moving to head up the stairs.]

I will break as necessary.

[reconnective]

[...what an ominous thing to say.]

Are you the one deciding it's necessary though?

[soulus]

Should I be asking someone for permission?

[reconnective]

Permission isn't really the word I'd use. More like someone else's perspective.

[soulus]

[He doesn't answer in favor of climbing the rest of the staircase. But he does offer a response before they split and he goes to his assigned room.]

I will receive another perspective if it comes with payment.

[Goodbye.]