[ up on the flight deck coming back from the coffee stall with a latte in his hand and a dead expression... but he puts on a smile when he sees who else is there. ]

Ah! Rosamund-san! Were you able to get any sleep last night?

A little!

[She smiles and waves as she draws near. I'm going to rule that she noticed his thousand yard stare but is too polite to point it out. It's so valid.]

Not the best sleep I've had, but far from the worst. How about you?

[A beat. She hesitates.]

Though, actually, now that we're alone, can I tell you something?

[grits my teeth, i'm not LOOKING to lead Totty on again but this week is making it difficult]

It's so rude of them to lock all the booze and clothes and things back up again. I mean, what harm could it possibly be? Just leave it open!

[Angrily sips a coffee. They're at the cafe they are chilling in one of the only halfway decent places here.]

[ he's less outwardly angry than this icon makes it look but this icon is literally him complaining with someone over coffee so i have to use it ]

Honestly, the most offensive part of it is that they took days to fix even one of the showers, but that? Repaired within hours!

[ he doesn't know shit about either plumbing or replacing panes of glass but he still feels like this is an unreasonable difference ]

[ todomatsu's just lying down on a bench up on the flight deck and staring blankly at the sky, but he'll quickly push himself up into a proper sitting position when he sees rosamund. ]

Well. Didn't like anything about that.

You and me both.

[She drifts over, taking up a modest space at the other end of the bench.]

It's troubling. In a way I didn't expect.

[ just like old times, todomatsu is here by the big pyre at the center of the village, where the profile posters are posted up on a notice board and books are still collected on the shelves that got dragged out here from the academy library.

being back here feels weirder than he'd expected, actually. after a year of being home and mostly settling back into his old ways, he's suddenly remembering all the shit that happened here in much more detail and being confronted with his own past character development that had largely washed away with time.

but he shakes himself out of it and looks over with a smile. ]

Well... Here it is, the infamous village with the stupid name.

Interested in seeing anything in particular? This right here was where we held trials, actually.

[looking around at all this and getting a strange sort of nostalgia. Off-putting nostalgia, mind you, and not entirely based in reality. Rosamund runs her hand over one of the wooden benches, frowning.]

...Well the fire must have been nice. Having them outdoors seems...refreshing. [She looks back to the village itself.]

You know? In a strange way, it reminds me a little of home? Or an older version of it. Back when everything was going wrong and there was a horrible twist to everything. Like it's trying a bit hard to be spooky.

[She looks to him again though and smiles. Pats him lightly on the shoulder.]

I'd ask if there was any place that you had happy memories of, but that seems a little hard in a place like this, doesn't it? Unless you've got something to surprise me with?

[She's been wandering the terminal with a cinnamon bun in a paper bag and a now cold tea in the other hand. No end goal in site. Trying to shake her nerves and failing utterly.

When she spots Totty she will offer the bun to him.]

Would you want some? I thought maybe something sweet would help, but...my appetite's gone for the day, I think.

[ todomatsu's honestly relieved there weren't three bodies today, with how this week went in scawwy... but the two they do have are going to make for a really rough weekend that he's not looking forward to.

he blinks and looks down at what she's offering. damn. it looks good, but he also really doesn't want to think about how many calories are in it... ]

Oh! I mean. Yeah, I guess, if you don't want it all. Do you want to split it in half?

[i wrote w0 and almost threw us back to the beginning, imagine.

Anyway she's up in the new garden or something, basking in the greenery. Enjoying the quiet. Dressed a little drably and bleary around the eyes but ultimately been force-fed a will to live.]

...Hello, Todomatsu.

[ of course it had to be the garden... todomatsu pauses and gives the plants a wary look, but comes over to join her. despite the hesitation over the surroundings, he seems markedly less cautious around her than he did a few days ago. ]

Rosamund-san... how are you feeling?

[they are getting margaritas? they are getting margaritas. She looks a little confused by it though.]

It's really hard not to wonder what happened to you all? [Makes a bit of a face.] Though — if you'd like to keep your privacy, I understand too. These trips can be really personal.

I think... it's safer if you don't know.

[ waits for her to take a sip. ]

[NO!!!!!!!!ERIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rosamund just blinks a moment. She'd seen this woman's profile when she'd taken a tour with Kate as well, but there was another one that hooked both their attention harder.

In the wake of this memory — which is objectively not half so bad as it could have been! Rosamund just stands there a little flushed and awkward.]

Oh... [what do you say. this is unfortunate.] Did she...get it figured out?

...She seems really nice!

[ here we are in... nueva bork...???

well, it's a better name than wenis, so he'll count his blessings. ]

...Somehow being in a place from 20 years ago is so much weirder than a place from a completely different time period, wow.

I...can't tell much of a difference?

[It's all so smooth. So future. So electric.]

What's so strange about it?

[ looking at the announcement and sighing ]

Three again...

[nodding, tersely.

Also she looks like she just recently dried off and changed.]

...Maya was with us at the pool. And we all woke up wet.

[ offers her a bottle of water when he sees her after execution... ]

Looked like you weren't feeling too well earlier. Are you doing okay?

[trudges in here a million hours later

She's a little surprised, but takes the bottle, smiling softly]

Oh, thank you Totty. Yes, I'm all right. I just went a little overboard last night.

Turns out there is no such thing as passing out and missing execution. Good to know for next time.

[ god i'm so disorganized i'm sorry

anyway his vibes are still low-key anxious and frustrated and guilty at this point instead of aggressively bad like they will be later today. and there's, like, a little bit of something positive in there seeing her happy like this. ]

Haha... you really like cats, huh?

[ WE FINALLY GET TO GO TO THE EUDORA so that is what we're doing ]

I'm glad they opened all the destination routes back up, I was kind of disappointed to miss this last week.

Same, actually? I mean I don't miss being on this ship but I still get a weird nostalgia for it?

What do you remember? Or sort of remember. I'm game to go wherever you would like!

[MY TOTTY...

She comes to find him in the void, and will give him a sincere hug]

Looks like we made it after all.

[ ah... hugs her back. ]

Yep! Definitely a relief to finally have that weight off our minds, huh?