[ he is just sitting in the relaxation area messing around on his phone with a cup of coffee on the table next to him, but he will glance up. (as the ferns sit innocently in the planter nearby.)

ah. he talked to this guy before, but they didn't actually do introductions or anything. ]

Kazuki-kun, right?

[ why did the way you said that make me so suspicious of these ferns. anyway kazuki is here with his own coffee, carefully setting it down to slip the guitar off his shoulder and lean it against a table. ]

That's right. And you're Matsuno-san? From...

[ makes a face. he doesn't want to say it. ]

[ also makes a face. ]

Yeah, that one.

[ at least it's not wenis, he keeps telling himself. ]

Avoided saying it as much as I could when we were there too.

This is where you were before, right? [ scawwy... he still doesn't want to say it. ] Is there any part of it that isn't weird and gross?

Yep, this is it...

[ he is still fine with neither of them ever saying it. ]

Some of the buildings people lived in shouldn't be so bad since we cleaned those and tried to make them tolerable.

[ aside from still being... well, haunted, the haunted house is kind of homey now. ]

And some of the places outside of the village itself aren't that bad, we just never had access to any of them for long.

I guess you do what can with what you've got... Kind of like how we didn't have beds for a while.

You didn't? But they're all there now.

[ catches this happening and wanders over, curious...

and immediately has the same reaction. ]

Why is it always plants!

I don't know!! I mean, we're in a freaking airport! At least the ship kind of needed to grow things.

[ he is sitting somewhere, squinting in exhaustion at his phone. ]

Seriously, why can't they text like normal people?

[ looks over from where he's sipping his coffee. ]

What?

[ initially scouting out the karaoke place for the party we are totally going to have later!!! ]

Man, we almost requested to add a karaoke room to our lounge yesterday but decided to wait just in case. [ and HERE IT IS!!!! ] This happened with the spa too, I am two for two with this.

It'd make for a really nice lounge if you did, but at least you can bring more people along this way.

...Just have to deal with all the birds.

[ woof. sits down somewhere after execution and sighs. ]

At least we're more than halfway through this thing.

[ his head is still pounding. he is depressed from losing a teammate and all of those things that were said. he's like melting into a seat. it's a Day, friend. ]

Kind of wish we could fast forward to when it was really done.

[ stepping off the train in heaven into twin peaks.



looks around at the crappy diner and run-down fair. ]

.......Okay, this looked better from inside the train. Why is this in heaven?

...Kind of weird, isn't it? But I guess everyone has their own idea of "Heaven."

They should at least make the fair decent.

[ man. the vibes are tired, sad, and somehow frustrated and resigned at the same time. ]

Can't believe we lost half of our karaoke group in 24 hours.

[ kazuki, meanwhile, is mostly feeling kind of numb, though there's a quiet, ever-present thrum of anxiety about him. he does give a bitter laugh at that, though. ]

Hah. God, it really is just us now, isn't it. What the hell.

[ jesus christ how do the trials always get worse. he's visiting totty in jail, bringing him some water for now. the vibes are absolutely rancid. ]

We really keep fucking this up, don't we? I'm sorry.

[ yeah his are pretty rancid too!!! ]

Oh... thanks.

[ takes it... ]

It's whatever. Not like I didn't know it was likely to happen. Though it's hard not to be kind of pissed that it's happening like this.

[ to karaoke! sets this before the inevitable curses roll in and tosses a microphone to totty. ]

Make it a good one now that it's almost over.

[ catches it and grins. ]

Okay!

[ he will in fact unwittingly do a sprace repeat just because it is my favorite of his VA's songs and it has a good vibe to it.

as shitty as his emotions have generally been the last few weeks, he's actually giving off pretty good vibes himself at the moment. even as different versions of themselves, there's still something kind of nostalgic and comfortable about this. ]

I've still got it, right?

[ thank you, miyu! ]