⇨ THE EPILOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 61
Where: The Carnival
What: After all the rescues team return, it will be matter of tending to the wounded and getting the hell out of dodge. The Ringmaster can handle the fleeing part, but someone will need to look after those in the medical tent. Or, maybe, you just want to show up and ask what the hell happened.
Warnings: Some messed up consequences of faerie fuckery.

IN REPAIR↴ As the minutes tick past, all four rescue groups will eventually return. Everyone in the carnival is encouraged to help out, ensuring that the rescues and victims both are taken care of after the fact. You can tag in here as rescuers taking care of business around the carnival, victims recovering, or other workers checking in to see what's going on. This log is for general aftermath threads, made by anyone.

Comments

me, belatedly: 'oh gon would be using mr for him huh...'

[betheman]

"Considering what Zangetsu was able to tell me..." Well, Gongenzaka cannot speak more than that save to perhaps say 'ask Zangetsu', which Childermass has frankly already done. So instead, he spares a vine or two to make certain the coat has everything covered after Childermass is done, resting a hand on Yuuya's shoulder.

"...It is as Zangetsu claimed, Yuuya- while indeed, it took remarkably long for I, the man Gongenzaka, to recover with this method, if there had been no body, it would have taken far longer. Zangetsu returning even this much, in this state, is for Mr. Strange's sake..!"

[hippocarnival]

The coat is a little bit of a relief--both for the respect to Strange and so Yuya doesn't have to keep catching his mangled body out the corner of his eye. He takes another couple shaking breaths, anchoring himself in Gongenzaka's hand.

"For his sake..." it's a little croaked coming out, but Yuya can accept that. "Then why is he out here?"

Did something else happen? Nobody's said that anyone else who went after Strange came back. Suddenly he's worried all over again.

I forgot he's been talking this whole time with two jawbreaker-sized candies in his cheeks

[moonfang]

Zangetsu just shrugs his shoulders and extends his hands, palms up. He's still learning about humans and how they react to stuff. But he does smile and feel good about himself when he gets some praise. He doesn't get that very often and he appreciates it.

"Well, Tyki radio'd be earlier and said she was sittin' in the lake, steamin'. I thought maybe she ate him, but... maybe that's just something she does? I sure hope I'm not right. Anyway... they're in trouble, because... well, I ain't precisely sure WHAT went down after I left, but I heard a bit of her conversation with Lambert on the radio. They had Ignatius on the ropes thanks to the library magic, but it sounds like they may have taken it too far..." he pauses, then frowns (which looks ridiculous with his puffed out cheeks), "... She was really upset when she left. She was cryin'."

Which was not something Zangetsu thought she was capable of, to be honest. It segues well into Yuya's question.

"-- Ah, because she asked me to watch him. She was preparing to do his egg thing when I told her about the rest of the team and she radio'd Lambert. Then, like I said, she left in a hurry. Aaaand I'd been waitin' for about an hour sooo I radio'd Gon to bring me a snack."

[atouts]

"Crying?"

Strange (or the body formerly known as Strange, whatever) properly covered for now, Childermass is free to actually look up in mild surprise. While he doesn't think it as impossible that the Ringmaster could cry, he can't fathom what Lambert could have done to cause it. And yes, he is assuming the cause is Lambert. It makes the most sense, knowing the witcher well enough.

"What has he done now..."

It's less a question, more a statement.

[betheman]

"Crying!?" Gongenzaka repeats, sharing that shock. That's, mmm. Not a very Ringmaster Thing after all, so if she's crying... "...I, the man Gongenzaka, did not think she was intending to kill any of the fae in the first place, for that matter...though if he was bound in the library as you say," he mutters somewhat, crossing his arms in thought, "...Hmnn... ...those actions may have forced her hand, then..."

[hippocarnival]

Yuya is the only one not surprised about her crying--she's not heartless (like some of the other Fae). He's more concerned about what Lambert said or did to hurt her so much. But he's not here to ask, so Yuya pushes the thought down for now.

Finally Yuya moves to get to his feet, spitting and wiping his mouth before his legs shake a little and he braces himself against Gonenzaka. "So they're still out there?"

[moonfang]

"I dunno. But it must have been something serious," he shrugs and shifts the candies around in his mouth. "But he's gonna be in deep shit, I know that much."

Zangetsu relaxes into a more comfortable sitting position and looks at Yuya.

"I doubt it. The Ringmaster left in a hurry, and came back in a hurry. She wouldn't leave them out there even if they WERE total idiots."

[atouts]

Childermass breathes out a sigh and glances back over towards Yuya and Gon.

"Zangetsu is correct. If they were still in danger, she would not have returned already," he can attest to that much. Even if the Ringmaster was pissed at them for only God knows what reason, she didn't leave people behind lightly. At least, he really hoped so.

[betheman]

Gongenzaka, who has been nodding since Zangetsu's own point, adds a third to the number of votes-of-confidence. "The Ringmaster herself passed overhead- this at least, we witnessed, so it is doubtful that if the others are in such....trouble," he coughs, "That she would have left them, for that matter. Either way..."

He stares at...the covered corpse. "...it would be best to get this to her sooner, rather than later..."

He doesn't give the obvious (decomposing) reason why.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya nods slowly, his gaze drifting to the coat and then back away. That sounds like she's not coming back, but surely... "But the Ringmaster didn't forget him, right? She'll be back."

He hopes.

[moonfang]

"She probably forgot. Y'all know she's got attention span problems at the best'a times."

Zangetsu shrugs nonchalantly. It's at that moment his radio hisses with static and a voice cuts in.

One quick conversation later, and--

"Hey! Gon! Can you carry one of those eggs?"