well this is a depressing excuse for a party

[onthebusagain]

[Mid-day on Sunday, Heather goes around and slips notes under dressing room doors.

If you don't want to be alone today, there will be snacks and people in the Ballroom today

--Heather

She's even dotted every i with a little heart! How cute.

The dining hall is a way better location for a party (or whatever this is) with its close proximity to the kitchen, and more intimate space- but Heather doesn't want to be anywhere near that place. Not for a while, at least. True to her word, Heather's brought snacks- finger sandwiches, a few bags of chips, and a big pitcher of lemonade. There isn't much else set up, but the piano is still there, should anyone want to play.]

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[onthebusagain]

I know it's frustrating, but it's better that way.

[solomonjihad]

[She shakes her head, hiccuping.]

Nothing...

[rockthistown]

I guess we can't do anything from in here anyway. We didn't even get to find his tax records.

[solomonjihad]

...................

it...will come back. I'm sorry.

[dontfeedplants]

... Maybe we're stuck in another world? I don't want to believe it, but we're all from different times and there are people here who aren't humans. Being on another planet can't be impossible now, can it?

[rockthistown]

Murder will, or just the mean you?

[dechagny]

...

[He heaves a breath, shakes his head.] I...do not know. Perhaps, at the thought of a wish, whether it could have truly been granted or not...there might not have been any getting through to her. Certainly, from my perspective, there were...things and worries which surprised me, when she said them.

[rockthistown]

Even if we're on another world, you'd think the Precure would have been able to find me! They could just call God!

[what]

[solomonjihad]

...That...other me.

[She looks away, ashamed.]

This...this is one of the longest times I've not remembered anything because of them.

[rockthistown]

I know. [sigh] But I don't have to like it! I told her that, even if a wish looks impossible, there can still be a way to make it come true with your own hands, and she just said I was wrong and needed to be careful.

[dontfeedplants]

What.

[rockthistown]

You don't know what happens when the other you is there? [She wipes her face with her sleeve again.] No wonder you always look worried. I don't get it, but you're okay, right? Or... none of us are okay, but you know what I mean.

[rockthistown]

Blue, the God of Earth! He lives on Mars now, but he was just back at the Blue Sky Embassy for that Happiness Party we threw a couple weeks ago.

[onthebusagain]

Is there... are you okay?

[solomonjihad]

No...I don't know anything. I only know that I hear a voice, deep down...it says....things, and...

[onthebusagain]

You looked for his tax records?

[solomonjihad]

Please forgive me...I...

[There's no point in evading, is there?]

...

I...the booklet was right about me. About two people. I have a split personality.

Whoever you talked to, and said those things...it wasn't...me. It was something else, someone I only know as a voice deep in my mind.

But...when it comes out...

...

[rockthistown]

That's kind of scary, Astarte... But we all know now, so you don't have to hide that. It's scary to hide things because you don't know what's going to happen, too.

[rockthistown]

We were talking about doing it, anyway! To find the address. But all he has in that office of his is a whole lot of nothing, and he's always there.

[dontfeedplants]

[. . .

Between this and the blue hair Seymour really wants to ask if Hime is human.]

I... I'm sorry I have never heard of those kinds of gods. Do you think they could even know where we are?

[rockthistown]

His mirrors can see Earth and the Blue Sky Kingdom and some other worlds, so I don't know why not.

[solomonjihad]

...I just know...its gotten stronger.

Hime...I should tell everyone, shouldn't I?

[rockthistown]

We saw her at the trial, so people probably think it's important. [Hime balls up a piece of her skirt in her hands.] I know what it's like to be hiding something. It's scary, but these people are usually nice. Um, except for the lawyer and the angry pirate. They're jerks. Natalie's a nice jerk.

[solomonjihad]

...the lawyer...he seemed all right...

[Until she scared him off, but well]

[rockthistown]

I don't think he likes people very much, but okay.