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[buddinghopes]

Cordelia Brooks
UN: Galanthusnivalis

STATUS: Student, 12th Grade

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BIO: President and founder of the Academy's cooking club! Please contact me if you'd like the club to provide food for an upcoming event.

© TESSISAMESS

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[buddinghopes]

That's still not a bad idea, honestly. I think having more things to do would at least curb...

[Holding up her phone.]

This.

[lifeforced]

I've played the video a couple times already, and like— I get having problems with being made to do stuff against your will and all, but what about the people who're willingly doing it because they want to help? Yeah, there's gonna be other ways to go about helping and all, but, y'know.

[buddinghopes]

Something something we're all going to die anyway.

I guess.

[She doesn't even know.]

But honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't give those people any mind.

[lifeforced]

Well, yeah, we'll all be dead eventually. [That's a fact one way or another, there's no way around it.] But what the fuck is the problem with doing what we can to maximize the time we've got and make the most out of it?

[buddinghopes]

I don't fucking get it either.

[She groans and buries her face in her pillow.]

I'm not even going to try to pretend to understand Flat's logic, let alone that girl.

[She doesn't know Miach at all, so like... yeah. After a few more moments, she looks up.]

... You have anything planned, Becky? Because I'm thinking about going to the arcade.

[lifeforced]

Nah, no plans here.

I mean, I could go do some work and keep myself busy that way, but I'm pretty sure at this point that Ekkehardt doesn't want the infirmary to be my answer to the question of "I need something to do, what should it be?" all the time.

So, I'd be down. Just us or did you wanna get some others going too? I could try calling up some of the Gaming Club people.

[buddinghopes]

... Not a bad idea. I couldn't say because I obviously can't see him but I'm ninety percent sure Gunvolt's about to pop a blood vessel or something.

[lifeforced]

[She opens up a new window on her laptop and starts typing something—looks like she's firing off a private message.] Gonna try to check with him now.

(a bit later)

[lifeforced]

[Becky checks the post and subsequent threads again to see what else is being said there.

If Lia's paying attention, she'll see her roommate closing that particular window, evidently not willing to see more right now.] Nope. I'm done.

[While resting an arm on the desk, and resting her head on that hand:] Fuck.

[buddinghopes]

[Lia's not paying attention because she's been checking the post and making increasingly disgusted faces. Time to just. Exit out of that one, yep.]

So. Definitely disengaging?

[lifeforced]

Uh, yeah. Really second-guessing the idea of trying to have anything to do with him, too. I mean, see some of what he wrote? [She's pretty sure Lia did see, and she knows that Lia would be aware of the issue that she'd take with it.]

[buddinghopes]

... Yeah. It's fair.

[She's... not really sure she wants to address it right now. She wants to sort through her feelings when she's not, y'know, dead-eyeing her phone.]

I just want to not think about this stuff for a while, to tell you the truth.

[It's why she's already gathering her things for going out and making sure she looks semi-presentable.]

[lifeforced]

Yeah, I get that.

[Becky gives the laptop screen another look; she's no longer looking at that whole mess, but there's that messaging that she started just earlier, and it looks like...]

GV's on-board for trying to hang out, I'm gonna tell him to meet us here. [She starts doing just that.] He hasn't mentioned his girlfriend yet, though, so dunno if she'll be along or not. I mean, I'm not gonna mind either way.

[buddinghopes]

I guess we'll see!

[She stretches and sighs a bit.]

At least hanging out at the arcade means today probably won't be a total write-off...