hot_mess_express ([personal profile] hot_mess_express) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-03-12 06:13 pm

The Seventh Trial

Who: heroes (?)
When: Day 16, early morning
Where: the party zone

[Late in the night, the train jostles again. It feels like a Trial, but this time there's a strange, oppressive feeling in the air, and the call forth has changed. And yet it's a voice that's been heard before -- the resonant young man's voice that accompanied a military tent surrounded in white feathers.

What is a hero?

That tent is here now, imposing with its black flag and spatters of mud and blood, but the edges are tattered and the feathers strewn about are beginning to turn black. From them rises a smoke with a dark glow, sending a chill through anyone it touches.

As you enter the voice is raised again. Though still strong, it's no longer clear -- it sounds hoarse and a little distorted.]

What is your worth? What do you stand for? What... is the right thing to do?

What is Justice?

SIGNUPS ☆ RULES ☆ ROOMS ☆ WINNERS & ENDGAME
crimeson: (to let you have your way with me)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-03-13 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
That feels a lot better. Thanks.

[pulling away once it's clear to him she's having some trouble. and it does feel better!]
voreaciously: (113)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-03-13 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Wait--there is still a scar. I have not finished, I can get rid of it. I can!

[She cannot get rid of it. Why can she not get rid of it? She needs to try harder. She needs to try harder and make it go away. She likes scars, but not like this.]
crimeson: ('cause these walls are crashing down)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-03-13 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[catching her hand, gentle.]

It's all right. I've got plenty of scars, and it doesn't hurt anymore. Save your energy for all those backs, huh?
voreaciously: (213)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-03-13 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She said she was not going to argue with him ever so.

She relents. After a moment.]

Very well. But it is simply that...Mister Finn...

[well he might be upset to see it. he might think of it as his failure--he tried so hard after all



but she does not care. she is not supposed to care. she is just supposed to be effective, and this would damage effectiveness. that's it. that's all.]
crimeson: (i'm sorry i bring you down)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-03-13 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[squeezing her hand softly.]

I'll talk to Finn. And it's simple enough to hide, if he can't handle seeing it. I like turtlenecks.
voreaciously: (36)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-03-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
I am fine. Really.

[she seems okay?? Her voice is level and even.]

I do not think his lordship the younger will be, however.
crimeson: (for the both of us)

[personal profile] crimeson 2019-03-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Sighs.]

He'll be pissed. He always is.
voreaciously: (65)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2019-03-13 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I will have to tell him my part in it.