★ ( ALLSTARZ: TAMA. )

[siffrin]

MISS TAMA WHO WILL QUITE LTIERALLY SPOOK SIFFRIN BECAUSE SHES SO MOMMY BUT I LOVE HER

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Okay, well now I just feel sad.

[siffrin]

Oh, sorry.

[ WHOOPS. ]

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[ whoops! ]

At least the crying room could have more than one person in. No one should have to cry alone, y'know?

[siffrin]

I guess not but.. I don't know who would like to be that vulnerable with someone else. ..It's personal, you know?

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... You're not the only person I've met who struggles being vulnerable with people.

[ MEN AND ALSO THEYS. ]

Ah-- it's not a criticism.

[siffrin]

[ (Haha..) ]

No offense taken.

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Maybe they should've set up individual booths or something too.

[siffrin]

For crying?

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Sobbing, weeping, whatever works.

[siffrin]

Booths would work. To help conceal their identity. But I don't know if anyone in this group would think to come here for a cry to begin with... unless there is?

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Eight weeks is a long time. You never know who might want a cry.

[siffrin]

..I don't doubt that. These situations have a way of.. adding some serious stress to everything.

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Yeah, they do. We're all in the same situation, but everyone deals with it differently too.

[siffrin]

..It isn't a good feeling knowing we'll have to go through it again. Even if we know already that there will be killing, and the dead come back at the end..

[ (You still don't like it.) ]

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It's like putting a band aid on a water leak. Like, it helps? But it doesn't fix what's wrong.

[siffrin]

Exactly. But they probably don't even care about that. Whoever is running this.

[ And then there's the question of - ] ..Are we even their first group? Or another group?

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If they’re auditors then I doubt it.

[ what do auditors care about? other than audits. ]

… Well, the people hosting it sound like they have some familiarity, but it’s not impossible they’re ex-… players? If we can call it that. Kinda like you and me. As for the auditors? I couldn’t say, but it’s weird they know so much about all of us and what happened to us.

[siffrin]

[ A small nod. ]

I was talking with someone that said they might be people that came from the same places as us.

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[ she nods slightly. ]

They made it pretty clear they were kidnapped too. So, it’s likely.

[siffrin]

That's true. Though, I wonder why they're on that side and not on this one with us.

[ Starting to sniffle a little, rubbing at their eye. ]

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[ NO. NO CRYING. she waves out a hand like aaaa hold??? ]

Hey, hey.

It feels a bit like... they're as trapped here as we are, they just got here first.

[siffrin]

[ Looks confused, sniffling a bit more, and sorta like "what's happening." ]

Probably? Either way, they lucked out a bit in not having to go through it on our side. [ UNFAIR. WHY MUST THEY GO IN THE TORTURE CITY AGAIN ]

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[ gib paw. ]

... I don't know about that. Having to sit and watch people you care about get hurt, when you can't do anything? That's just as bad sometimes.