( Ordinarily he'd celebrate people who do the same as him, but he gets the feeling that maybe, they're really doing it for the same reason as him.
It isn't anyone's business.
He almost looks when she commands him like that, but he doesn't; he waits for his heart to return to normal pace and looks back up, expression schooled neutral but wariness plain in his eyes. )
I think we're already DEAD, every last one of US, and that this is simply some sort of purgatoRY. To graduate is to simply reincarNATE, to be given the chance to try aGAIN. Eventually all return to these halls and go through the cycle aGAIN. And to die here ( or to be killed here ) means you lose your CHANCE.
( But maybe not permanently. Nao's alive, but had she ever really been dead? Well and truly dead, or just put into a stasis—the only way someone could save her after something so terrible had been committed against her? Maybe he should have asked her how long she's had her tally. )
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It isn't anyone's business.
He almost looks when she commands him like that, but he doesn't; he waits for his heart to return to normal pace and looks back up, expression schooled neutral but wariness plain in his eyes. )
I think we're already DEAD, every last one of US, and that this is simply some sort of purgatoRY. To graduate is to simply reincarNATE, to be given the chance to try aGAIN. Eventually all return to these halls and go through the cycle aGAIN. And to die here ( or to be killed here ) means you lose your CHANCE.
( But maybe not permanently. Nao's alive, but had she ever really been dead? Well and truly dead, or just put into a stasis—the only way someone could save her after something so terrible had been committed against her? Maybe he should have asked her how long she's had her tally. )