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[You remember dying. Maybe the memory is clear and bright and your body still aches from the cause. Maybe it was fast enough that you didn't feel it and don't remember what you went through. But no matter how you went out you're still trapped here.

When you open your eyes it might take you a minute to recognize your surroundings. It's your dressing room, that much is certain, but nothing is where you remember it. It's like everything has been picked up and moved to the other side of the room. The entire room has been perfectly mirrored from what it used to be and, upon leaving, it seems the rest of the opera house is just the same. If you remember one room being in the east wing, it's now in the west. If it was in the west, it's now in the east.

Welcome back to the Opera House, friends, you're not out of the woods yet.]

[ooc: Welcome to deadland, darlings! It's a perfectly mirrored version of the Opera House and each week, as new people die after new floors have been revealed, the stairwell doors will unlock and allow you to reach them. For example, week 3 victims will unlock floor 2 and so on and so forth. Also, all dead characters will wake up at their actual canon point.

Have fun because we have some fun things planned for you.]

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Everybody always wants to get into a good school, even if all that work makes them tired and miserable. I guess I already had ruling the Blue Sky Kingdom lined up, so I never really thought about it.

Some of us don't really have a choice. If I didn't get a full ride I wasn't going.

It must've really made you happy.

...I guess. The idea of getting away did. I guess that doesn't matter much now.

What kind of place would you want to go to, if you came back to life and could go anywhere in any world at all?

[Hime looks at her now-cooled pancakes and starts loading them up on a tray to warm in the oven.]

For college, or just in general?

Anywhere. Even something made up.

...You're going to think it's stupid.

You think a lot of the stuff I say is stupid! It's fair!

[...She takes a moment to laugh at that despite herself, but then sombers.]

I would, um, I would go back to the opera house.

Wait. Really? Even if the Management's still trying to kill us?

See? I told you you would think it's stupid.

No, it's just...

[Hime shuts the oven door and holds onto the handle for a second too long.]

It means you're really brave. Enough to want to go back and help everyone, even if it's scary and it's dangerous.

That's not... really what I meant. You don't have to say that.

But it's true. It's easier to run away.

...What did you mean?

...I've never had this many people who cared about me, and who I cared about to.

[Breathe. Blink. Swallow.]

I didn't - have the chance to tell them all.

[Hime's eyes water up as she tries not to start crying again.]

B-before I died, um, I was talking to Anna... She thought you were actually really nice, and that you were helping everyone. She said you understood things most people wouldn't. So I. Um. I think everyone there likes you...

[Nope, she's crying.]

Why do we have to be dead?

...She really said that?

[Damn.

Once she realizes Hime is crying—]

I... Please don't cry. I don't have an answer for you.

[Hime wipes her face with her sleeve.] I'm sorry. I wanna go home, but we're stuck here for probably forever.

...You don't have to apologize.

[She sighs. She wants to go home, too.]

We're not going to be stuck here forever.

You mean it? Like we'll be able to go somewhere else after everybody else escapes?

I mean, I'm not an authority on this, but it doesn't seem like they can keep us here forever. That guy from the last round said that most of the cast members he knew who died aren't here.

Judas-san? I guess so. I wonder if they all just went somewhere else when they died to begin with.

Edited 2016-11-23 23:16 (UTC)

Right, that's what I'm saying. Like... I don't know, it seems really weird we didn't go there too, and I'm guessing the whole not going there thing is temporary.

So it's a curse that'll break when the others finish the show!

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