Game 36 - Teal

[teamposts]

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[fishpanties]

- eh? How did you cut yourself?

[DID YOU FIND THE KNIFE STASH . . .]

[goodbyenurse]

I manifested energy around my hand and made it razor sharp. [She holds up her right hand and demonstrates, an orange energy covering it.]

It looks differently than it did in the memory, but I can control its size and shape without issue. [To demonstrate, she has it grow various spiky protrusions, get bigger, get smaller... and then vanish completely.]

[fishpanties]

[. . . whoa]

[goodbyenurse]

I do not know when I learned to do that, but judging by its existence and the way I felt when I considered letting him die...

I do not believe I am a normal doctor. [Because until just now there was clearly no way to tell.]

[fishpanties]

[runs a hand through her hair. t-this is hard to keep straight when she's worried about her other friends . . . ]

It sounds like you could have become a doctor to . . . I don't know, atone for something, or to remove yourself from something.

[goodbyenurse]

It is possible.

Are you alright?

[fishpanties]

[shrugs]

I hate these competitions.

[goodbyenurse]

I will admit that despite the mental stimulation, it is... disconcerting to not be in control over whether our team lives or dies. The mental exercises to see what our odds are, however, are more than adequate for keeping my mind off of such things.

[fishpanties]

Mm . . .

Well, I've always been a worrier.

[goodbyenurse]

And I do not know the other teams well enough to create an adequate probability.

Might I ask about your relationship with Kit?

[fishpanties]

. . . My childhood friend, my best friend, and my—my boyfriend.

[goodbyenurse]

Your boyfriend?

[fishpanties]

[w-why are you making me say this]

I love him.

[goodbyenurse]

Do you..?

[She looks down at her left hand and stares at it for a while.]

Very well then. I have heard Tiramasu's reasoning and yours, and Iris shall be my vote.

[fishpanties]

[clenches her fists, forcing herself to take slow, deep breaths.]

[goodbyenurse]

...are you picturing having to tell the dragon?

[fishpanties]

[Ha . . .]

No. That's the easy part.

[goodbyenurse]

Then what is it you are thinking of?

[fishpanties]

Tiramisu. What'll happen to the other teams.

[goodbyenurse]

That is the easy part. Either they will live or they will die.

Either we will live or we will die.

Regardless of what happens, no one will blame you for protecting the person you have opted to love with all your heart, and no one can blame you should we die.

[fishpanties]

Easy for you, maybe.

. . . I'll be fine, Macaron. [SPEAKING OF WHICH, GOING TO. PUT IN THAT DECISION.]

[goodbyenurse]

[Just gonna sit over here and ponder things that have nothing to do with dying for a while if you need me, then.]