undread | Ashlyn

[she relaxes a little bit at this.]

...I don't hate Camille. I didn't like her at first, but I changed my mind.

I like her, too.

[ ... ]

But that wasn't really her anymore. Or at least, it wasn't always going to be, anymore.

[yeah...]

Iwatooshi came back to himself for a while. [in the moment she was so upset, but in retrospect.] Poor Camille.

[ just looks very sad about iwatooshi. ]

Camille... Didn't want to be like her family. Didn't want to hurt people like they do. So I think in her right mind, she would be relieved to be stopped.

Most people would.

...No. [...] She made me quite angry tonight. But when she was more herself, she wanted to help me. Even if I didn't like the way she did it, that's what it was.

[so maybe she shouldn't hold onto this anger.]

Such an ugly chain of betrayals. I cared about Ichiban. I cared about Iwatooshi. I care about Aqua and Camille.

I don't know if you can call it betrayal when they aren't themselves.

That has to be the truth, doesn't it?

[she sounds a bit wary of it.]

If we can't hate the ones who hurt us I don't know what else to do. I don't want to stand there, helpless, and do nothing.

There are still people to hate. The cultists that chose to put us in this situation.

[ although she does immediately get a little bit antsy because that still doesn't give them anything to DO about it yet. ]

[no that's a great point though.]

We can't let this keep happening, but there's nothing we can do, it seems. [maybe the fact that we caught all of them? but who even knows, iwatooshi didn't kill anyone this week.]

...I told Iwatooshi my monster last week. And I was going to tell Aqua this week. [memshare, man. anyway, she already told ash her monster so she thinks it's okay to say this.] Based on what her transformation looks like, it's possible we were a match.

[not certain, but possible. which makes her feel like she had a near miss, but also, she would have liked being partners with aqua.]

... Good thing you didn't. That was close, though. We don't need any more partner deaths tomorrow.

[ SCARY!!!! ]

These groups that go on stupid adventures in the fog keep coming back with weird stuff. It doesn't seem relevant to the place we were, either, so maybe it's got something to do with the cultists and their rituals. I don't know, I'm... looking into it still, so I'll touch base with you with anything I find out. But hopefully that'll be something we can actually do. Some kind of progress.