anyway. wherever clem happens to be, yona is there. she's ... reading a book? yep. she's reading a book. even if wherever clem happens to be is not a good place to be reading a book.]
[ why are you reading in the forest instead of somewhere comfortable like the lobby! see, now i get to make character decisions for you and then make fun of them.
... anyway. clem knows how to move quietly, but she's kind of trying to make some noise as she approaches so that she doesn't startle yona. ]
[look when you spend a good chunk of time traveling around in forests, reading while sitting against the trunk of a tree can feel more natural than doing it indoors!
anyway, she holds up the book - it's titled "a little princess," by frances hodgson burnett.]
This. Someone gave it to me. [...] It's pretty good so far.
[ there aren't many books she would have recognized, so why ask? ... mainly just to put off asking what she really wants to, because she doesn't think she'll be any good at offering comfort and isn't even sure yona will want to talk to her. ]
I know what you mean. I'm used to having someone to shoot.
[ meet a bad guy? kill them! problem solved. but killing virid didn't bring that satisfaction, and there are still rules being enforced that mean someone else deserves to be shot. ]
...I think what bothers me the most about it is... it didn't seem like it would have been any different if we'd gotten it wrong. So, it wasn't justice. It was just a spectacle.
Right... but if it's blood to prevent blood, you'd think the Realm would just want us to keep searching until we found the right person, and not just cut us off and make us vote even if we don't know.
[oocly, of course the time limit makes sense - and maybe icly it does, too, if the realm is unstable from the disturbances, but. still.]
...people are resilient. They'll get used to anything, if they have to experience it often enough. But I don't think they should have to.
["they," she says, because she's used to it, already.]
[ just yeets this at you without permission, but hi!! sometime after trial, clementine is seeking yona out. just to check up on her... she just thinks yona is nice... ]
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