[Accidental Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

[The first sound that can be heard is a loud thump as the journal hits the floor and pops open to record everything that follows.]

No...

[Emil isn't even aware that his journal is open and picking up all of this.]

No, no no please no please... no... no!!

[His voice escalates in pitch, ending in a strangled, heart-wrenching cross between a scream and a sob.]

Richter!!

Comments

[corrinesbell]

Yeah. Of course we were.

[knightofratatosk]

What if something had gone really wrong and something horrible had happened?

[corrinesbell]

...It did, a couple times. [Corrine is a sore subject. So is the Great Seed wrecking Palmacosta. But other bad things happened too] But we kept going. We had to. No one else was gonna save the world.

[knightofratatosk]

But Palmacosta...

[He knows that Colette didn't mean for that to happen, but that doesn't change the fact that it DID happen. He couldn't live with himself if Ratatosk ended up causing something similar.]

[corrinesbell]

Kept going too.

[knightofratatosk]

...

[But she's right, and so did Luin. Still, that's not going to bring back all the lives that were lost.]

[corrinesbell]

There's nothing anyone can do about what happened to the people in Palmacosta that day. What you've gotta do is the best you can for the people who're still around.

[knightofratatosk]

The best I can...

[corrinesbell]

[nod. That's why that's her pact, after all]

[knightofratatosk]

Thanks, Sheena. I don't know what I can do, but I'm still going to try.

[corrinesbell]

Sometimes that's all you can do.

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah...

[corrinesbell]

...Emil. Sometimes that's enough. Don't look like that.

[knightofratatosk]

O-oh, um... right.