Is This Where You Wanna Be? Crawling On Your Hands and Knees?

[mayavericks]

[In a perfect world, Maya would have been able to isolate herself for the rest of the evening. It's not like her to wallow in her feelings, but it's also not like her to be trapped away in a murder school or part of an execution so... not like she has much choice there. Besides, between the influence of Janis, and the sight of her remaining dormmates, it's clear that Maya simply can't... let things go.

It's like she told the SQUIP. They look to her for hope. And so, hope she must be. It's her job to stand tall for the others. Thankfully help comes easier this time -- there's no need to scruff Discord, or try to keep Spongebob from making Hate Patties. Maybe that, in and of itself, is a good sign.

It's just another fluke. They'll be okay. They're together, after all. Even Salieri and Discord are getting along well enough to help.

Cutting potatoes proves to be an interesting task, considering the fact that most of the knives are missing. Maya has a few guesses as to how that happened, but she won't point fingers again today. She makes do with what she has -- two swords between her and Cassandra.

Potatoes, cakes, pies -- the arrangement is much the same. There's even cocoa (made by less experienced hands, unfortunately), and alcohol. It all feels like a repeat of last week, but she's trying to not think about it. She does her best to keep a smile on her face as she knocks on each door, inviting others to the cafeteria once more.]

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[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa's used to food not having flavor. She's had enough days where she spiraled deep into depression where what little she could eat just felt like ash in her mouth. So while she takes the plate offered to her, scooching it closer to herself, she doesn't touch the potatoes yet.]

Ready for... what? Do you think something is going to happen soon?

[howtheworldwas]

[ Eurydice is tense, her jaw set. ]

You heard the SQUIP. It could happen again. It was wrong about a lot of things, but I don't think it was wrong about that.

[defyingfrigidity]

[A part of Elsa understands that. She and Orpheus had been so sure that nobody would do anything after what they'd seen last week, and... well. Look where they are now. But even with how much Elsa had been taught to fear people n her youth, even with how she's SEEN the sorts of things that can happen when fear and uncertainty fester....]

It can't just keep going on. Sooner or later it has to stop, right? Maybe we can find a way to make it stop now.

[howtheworldwas]

What are our options? We stop the Wizard, somehow, or he lets go, or we escape, or -- or we just run out of people to kill.

[ It's grim, but Eurydice is ever the realist. ]

None of those are likely, and some are horrible.

[defyingfrigidity]

We don't listen to him, or his motives. We only focus on each other. If we hold out long enough, others... other people have to know we're missing, right?

[There's no way Anna doesn't know she's gone. Her sister would raise hell to get her back, and try to find a way to save everyone.]

If we don't listen to him, eventually he'll have to slip up. There has to be something we can use, then...