⇨ 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.

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[hippocarnival]

Yuya doesn't look totally sure about that, but right now he won't argue it. He does, however, consider going to talk to Ignatius in Rita's place, if the Ringmaster isn't going to allow her to herself.

"What about you? Are you okay?" Besides the moral quandary of torture.

[anti_nonsense]

"I'm fine. I wasn't hurt," Rita replies simply. Other than being stressed, sore, and lacking sleep, she's in fairly good health. And while she won't say as much, talking to Yuya like this seems to be making her feel a little better.

"...You went to help Steven, right?" she asks after a moment. "How did that go?" She'll go ahead and guess it didn't end as controversially as her expedition.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya nods, smiling with only a little bit of strain. "The Rose Queen really hurt him, but... we got him out. Things went a lot better when we knew how to use the Athenaeum against her--nobody else got hurt."

Well, Yuya's shoulder was pulled out of place but that wasn't actually the Fae's fault. "He's recovering at the med tent right now."

[anti_nonsense]

"Good," Rita says, though she doesn't look especially happy. Of course the Rose Queen hurt him. Damn it, she shouldn't have been able to get her hands on him in the first place...

"We can't let this happen again," she mutters after a pause. Steven's suffered enough. A lot of them have.

[hippocarnival]

"We won't." He doesn't know if they won't, but he doesn't want to sound so uncertain when Rita already is.

He looks back at her, trying to meet her face with determination. "It can't go on like this forever. We have to be able to change something."

[anti_nonsense]

Rita meets his eyes and nods. Something has to change. She's felt that way for a while.

"Yesterday... we beat a High Fae and made him feel what it's like to be a helpless mortal. I don't know if that'll help us, or if it's just going to make things worse for everyone in the long run." Realistically, it might do both. "But I didn't want to just run away and hide, like we always do. Just for once, I wanted something different to happen."

She feels herself getting worked up, so she sinks back in her seat a little and glances away. "Anyway... thanks, I guess. For hearing me out."

[hippocarnival]

Yuya purses his lips momentarily, then nods with a little smile. "Yeah, of course! We're friends anyway."

He draws his hands back, lightly gripping the edge of the table. "And thanks for telling me everything."