[week five - wednesday]

[ceded]

[ Her roommate is missing.

Her second roommate is missing.

Given what happened to her first, you can imagine her feelings when Natalie, with no prior warning, doesn't come back that night.

It's Wednesday, so there's no guarantee it's a kill, but worry still claws at her insides as she makes her way out of the hotel after a thorough search. Maybe she should get someone to come with her, but again, theoretically there shouldn't be any danger in going out on a Wednesday night.

Then again, Sei shouldn't have died today. The universe works in mysterious ways.

It takes her a while to search the stores, given that she just has to hobble between them. The place she isn't expecting to actually find something is the Saloon, a place she never ever goes because what's the point?

The point, apparently, is finding Natalie and Jason passed out on the floor, and also soaking wet??

At the very least, Xion manages not to fall on her face in her haste to get to them, but she will drop to the floor anyway and slightly jostle her broken leg. Oh well. ]

Jason! Natalie!

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[robitussin]

[This evening has been a nightmare.

When she left the homestead with Jason, the last thing she'd wanted to do was go back to the hotel. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew it would make Xion worry - but more and more lately, she's been thinking that Xion shouldn't have to associate with someone like her. She didn't know where else to go, but somehow they ended up in the saloon, still dripping wet.

By the time the younger girl finds them, she's asleep next to him. The steady rise and fall of her chest, at least, should prove upon examination that she isn't dead. What's more conclusive proof, however, is the way she jolts awake upon hearing her name cried out.]

What, what—

[She pushes herself up to a sitting position with her good hand, and that's when she sees exactly who it is that's come in and freezes in place. Her eyes widen, and it's like any words she might have been about to say collapse inside her. She might not have approached her as it happened, but she definitely saw the way Xion held Seizaburo's body as she died.]

I... [Instinctively, without thought, she reaches back with her remaining hand to grab at Jason's arm as a form of support.] I'm sorry.