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Who: anyone
When: day 57, afternoon
Where: anywhere it's a mingle

[This is a mingle but there is a comment in a Chain Chat to the whole train!]

Rean: A while ago some of us were discussing a festival where every team puts on a production, game, booth, whatever, maybe based around team bonds or interests.

What do people think? Maybe it's a good time to to talk about it again?

[Feel free to discuss with each other! Or just mingle as usual.]

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....huh.

[And yet it feels. Wrong somehow? Like that can't be quite right for Reasons.]

Though to be fair, I'm sure the Reds and Blues were involved in that friend making too.

It takes two to friendship! Or, more than two. You know what I mean.

More the merrier, huh?

There's no such thing as too many friends!

True.

So, next one?

If you're ready for it.

[ what could possibly go wrong ]

I think so. Things have been good so far, if kind of weird.

[In the memory goes and-]

[YEAH OKAY, HE NEEDS A MINUTE BECAUSE FUCK THAT PANIC ATTACK. Excuse him as he leans against the wall and just tries to get his breathing back under control.]

[But hey, there's a familiar face.]

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[ wh ]

[ holy shit ]

[ holy shit what ]

[ tears her eyes away from the screen to focus on dusk, reaching out without actually touching him ]

Dusk!

[Much like he did with Kaito]

[Holds up a hand.]

[Though he's asking for five, because it's Been A Bit since he's hand a panic attack.]

I- Okay.

[ Okay. She can do that; she can keep calm and wait, if that's what he needs to feel better. ]

Take your time. I'm not going anywhere.

[He nods and he's just.]

[Gonna force himself to breathe, calm down his racing heart, get himself together because GOD that was the worst kind of rush.]

[In]

[Out]

[In]

[Out]

[And after a few minutes, will push away from the wall and just take a seat.]

Fuck.

[ It's hard — so damn hard — not to try to take his hand. To keep her distance. But she does it, because the last thing she wants to do is make this worse for him. ]

Do you want to talk about it? Or something else …?

[ She wouldn't fault him if he needed a distraction first. ]

I'm not even sure what to SAY. I don't know why I panicked like that. I just....did.

To be honest … I don't know if I understood even half of what was going on there. It looked like a lot. [ Understatement of the century. ]

We could get some hot chocolate, if that'd help.

....it would, yeah.

[Help ground him, at the very least.]

Gotcha. One cup of Faito's best ever hot chocolate, coming right up!

[ She stands - and hesitates, glancing between him and the kitchen. ]

I'll be fine a few minutes. Not going anywhere.

Right. Back in a minute! [ ZOOM ]

[ She doesn't rush the cocoa-making process, but she'll be back as soon as she can be. ]

[It's cool. It gives him a minute to breathe and sort out his own thoughts on What The Fuck.]

[When she comes back though]

That was Kaito, wasn't it?

Yeah, that was Kaito. [ Holds out one of the mugs for him. ] And he was ... he was wearing the same clothes as he was in that one memory of mine.

[ Y'know, the one where they both almost died and several people actually did. ]

[ And as she sits back down next to him - ]

... Your clothes there, they were the same colour as mine. The cream.