The sky shines differently today than it did yesterday

[employeeoftheyear]

[Perhaps to the surprise of no one, there is no after party after that trial. Two children were dead. Two children were dead over a simple accident and the Wizard cared more about himself than anyone else. But they won't give up, they can't give up. They had to keep fighting until everything's been set right.

At the Lobby ofrenda later that night, there are six origami pieces accoupling the other memorials. A penguin, a rose, an octopus man, computer, a music note, and the last one are of a boy and girl holding hands. Along with that there is a plate of strawberry cupcakes with blueberry icing and a note that reads:]

There is still hope and love in the world

Never let The Wizard make you think otherwise 💗

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[barberic]

[After she stops to rest, he pauses as well to offer her a drink. It's the least he can do, to repay her for taking on this rotten work with him.]

...I did whatever I was ordered to do. [He wipes sweat from his brow with the sleeve of his shirt.] Eventually I had a little more freedom. Tilling fields, laying bricks. But at first, they put me on the chain digging roads.

[He hesitates, looking down at the shovel in his hands.]

The man who had me transported told them I was dangerous. So they wouldn't listen to me when I said I was innocent.

[howtheworldwas]

[ Eurydice takes the water, and takes a few sips before passing it back. On some level, she's still not used to there being enough to go around.

Roads sounds a lot like the wall, and Eurydice nods, grim. That explains his strength, then, and how quickly he picked up on the song.

That last part makes less sense, though, and Eurydice finally looks back to Mister Barker. ]

You were innocent? Then why did he have you go?

[barberic]

Because he needed me out of the way.

[He hesitates again, looking between Orpheus and Eurydice, wondering if he should give them the reason or not.

He thinks about Orpheus, sharing so happily in his joy on the first day, and confiding in him in fear and pain in the weeks that followed, about Eurydice with him in the garden, barely holding back her sobs.

A marriage is about being stronger together than separate, about two halves merging to create a greater whole. He wants that for them, that dream that's no longer possible for himself. He wants them to prove the wicked world wrong.]

...So that he could abduct my wife.

[themuseabandonsyou]

That's -

[ Orpheus looks up, concerned. The implications don't quite hit him right away, but as they sink in his eyes go wide and he almost drops his shovel. He wants to ask - but you made it back, didn't you? But he knows it's not that simple, that fifteen years can't be undone just like that, that whatever Benjamin remembered earlier in the week was enough to lay him low, without so much as the faintest glimmer of hope in him. The implication is sadly clear. ]

That's horrible. Oh, Benjamin, I'm so sorry.