[Elsa's good at holding tears in. In the long, lonely years of her isolation, she learned how to best hide her crying from her parents, and from Anna. But when they all leave the auditorium after that trial... she can't hold it in anymore. She leans against the wall of the Lobby and cries. It's not the loud or especially heaving sort of crying, but it's still a lot, coming from her. Tears stream hot and fast down her cheeks, and she clamps a hand down hard over her mouth to muffle her sobs.
Two more people. Two children. One being a boy who she'd felt responsible for, who felt like a brother to her. A boy who struggled with his sense of goodness in the same way Elsa did, who she tried so hard to assure that he wasn't some terrible, heartless monster...
It's too much. It's all just. Too much...
For most of the day, Elsa can't be found alone. She's nearly plastered herself to Cass's side so wherever Cass goes, she goes. But eventually Cass goes off, insisting she needed to take a long, hot shower after all of that, and Elsa's left on her own. She wanders back into the lobby, in front of the ofrenda. She just... stares at it for a while, then looks down at the origami figures in front of it.]
You know... I was told by an ambassador from the east that making things like this can be a token of good luck. [She crouches down, not to pick one up, but just... to look at them closer.] You have to make a lot of them, though. Maybe...
[And later still, before Elsa goes off to find Cass again, she stops by Broadhurst Dorm. Bruni the fire spirit seems to be leading her there, giving out worried and sad squeaks as he occasionally looks over his shoulder at his friend. He crawls up the desk the terrarium had been set up on, and places one little paw on the glass; Rapunzel and Eugene, the lizards Varian had received through the vending machine, are inside.]
Oh, buddy... [He must have made friends with them, huh...?] Do you want to look after them?
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Two more people. Two children. One being a boy who she'd felt responsible for, who felt like a brother to her. A boy who struggled with his sense of goodness in the same way Elsa did, who she tried so hard to assure that he wasn't some terrible, heartless monster...
It's too much. It's all just. Too much...
For most of the day, Elsa can't be found alone. She's nearly plastered herself to Cass's side so wherever Cass goes, she goes. But eventually Cass goes off, insisting she needed to take a long, hot shower after all of that, and Elsa's left on her own. She wanders back into the lobby, in front of the ofrenda. She just... stares at it for a while, then looks down at the origami figures in front of it.]
You know... I was told by an ambassador from the east that making things like this can be a token of good luck. [She crouches down, not to pick one up, but just... to look at them closer.] You have to make a lot of them, though. Maybe...
[And later still, before Elsa goes off to find Cass again, she stops by Broadhurst Dorm. Bruni the fire spirit seems to be leading her there, giving out worried and sad squeaks as he occasionally looks over his shoulder at his friend. He crawls up the desk the terrarium had been set up on, and places one little paw on the glass; Rapunzel and Eugene, the lizards Varian had received through the vending machine, are inside.]
Oh, buddy... [He must have made friends with them, huh...?] Do you want to look after them?