voice; forward dated to August 12

[piercedyourheart]

This might be a weird request, but could I borrow a few baggy shirts? I guess Iris makes me grow big, uncomfortable, stupid horns that don't let me fit through doors and ruin all my tops! [ that is not a bitter tone, it definitely is not. ]

Promise to give them back after the moon's over?

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[piercedyourheart]

Well--! I guess you could--! Not that--!

[ her multiple trains of thought detail into incomprehensible embarrassed sputtering. it's not that minatsuki is wrong, just that yukari hasn't let that fact sink in yet. ]

[jailbirds]

[ it's fine, she knows not everyone can handle The Truth™ at first. but she does want to at least know that someone gets how creepy this whole situation is. ]

You've got nothing to say 'cause you know I'm right. We get our shitty allowance, but they're making a profit off people sleeping around.

[piercedyourheart]

[ groaning, ] I know, I know! We're like batteries or science experiments. Honestly, it's hard to say which one is worse.

[jailbirds]

[ she grimaces. speaking from personal experience— ]

They're both pretty fuckin' bad. Mostly 'cause they're both disposable.

[piercedyourheart]

You can say that again.

[ having spent several months in someone's grand design to cause the end of the world and then almost getting killed for it was a stark reminder of that.

she glances off camera, frowning at nothing in particular, before giving minatsuki a weak smile. ]

I hate saying that all we can do is hope for the best, but we don't have much of an alternative here.

[jailbirds]

Hoping won't do you any good.

[ she hesitates a moment, uncertain — and then she sighs, and seems to make up her mind on something. for the most part, she's been trying to leave her history out of things when she talks to people, even something as small as speaking vaguely about her experiences, because it's the only way she'll sound anything close to normal. but since her experience here is actually sort of useful, it's a difficult line to walk. ]

When you're in a cage like this, you've gotta adjust, sure, or else you'll go crazy. But getting domesticated is just as bad. Sooner or later, we're gonna have to take some kind of action even if it's hopeless. Otherwise you'll end up picturing your future as this place.