[7rings] catchall for vira

[shiftingwinds]

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w0, tuesday

[shiftingwinds]

[rng says rec room! so, shi qingxuan stumbles across vira as she's cleaning. aww, what a good girl.]

Do you need a hand?

[chevaleros]

[ vira plucking up Monopoly money and whatnot because no one here can pick up after themselves. she greets sqx with a somewhat exasperated smile. ]

Oh, if you wouldn't mind... please grab the box all this paper money goes into. I'd do it myself but there's quite a lot to clean today.

[ the kitchen is after this. bleak. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[y'all don't know how to act. smdh]

Of course!

[grabs the monopoly box and brings it over... then starts picking up the money along with her.]

We were even warned not to keep making messes...

[chevaleros]

[ at least sqx has some manners, damn. she sighs. ]

Yes, well—this group doesn't seem the type to listen.

[ a bunch of children let loose and told to indulge. ]

Considering how hedonistic the setting is, I suppose I can't be surprised.

[shiftingwinds]

It's no fun to indulge when everything around us is a mess, though.

[she makes a face!]

w0, saturday 2.0

[shiftingwinds]

[what a fucking mess.

anyway, shi qingxuan is heading into the (flips coin) experimental holding room, where she finds vira.]

Oh... [she looks kind of surprised? the clones are sort of creepy. she'd expected this place to be more or less empty.] Vira, hello.

[chevaleros]

[ sorry what if i checked if i fucking hit reply on things

anyway, vira blinks out of where she's staring at one of the pods, greeting sqx with a brief, polite nod of her head. ]

Hello. What brings you here?

[ it's not exactly, uh, pleasant vibes. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[ghjkjkjhg

anyway, shi qingxuan smiles faintly.]

I was looking for somewhere quiet to think - I didn't expect to run into anyone... [because, uh, yeah! the vibes here aren't great.] ...how are you faring?

[chevaleros]

[ it is quiet, at least. almost eerily so, which is the problem.

it's better with more people, at least. ]

Truthfully, I am... angry. But I wanted to review my thoughts of the day and see what went wrong.

[shiftingwinds]

Ah - that's what I had in mind, too...

[...]

Perhaps we can try thinking through it together?

[two heads are better than one, and all that...]

w1, sunday

[shiftingwinds]

[hours later (three plus however many it took ming yi to let her wander off unattended), shi qingxuan leaves the medbay and runs into vira wherever she may be.]

Oh, Vira! Hello.

w3 - tuesday

[chevaleros]

[ it's very late at night—or very, very early in the morning, depending on perspective—when vira wanders into the observing room. it's quiet, though not in an overwhelming way like some other places. so it's nice, for nights that don't seem to end like this one.

she has a small, strange little creature following along close beside her, floating easily off the ground. but that's not the only company here, apparently, because she spots sqx sitting here already. vira sounds a little surprised. ]

You're up quite late.

[shiftingwinds]

[she's staring out at the stars - real stars! wow! imagine that! - when vira wanders into the room. her footsteps are very quiet, but in the silence that comes with the late hour, they're easy to hear.

she looks back at her over her shoulder, and... she looks pretty tired.]

Ahaha... so are you.

[chevaleros]

[ that makes two of them—but is it really a surprise? who would be out and about in a place like this, if not because sleep evades them?

she steps a bit closer before turning her gaze up at the space around them. ]

So I am. [ ... ] Is something weighing on you, then?

[shiftingwinds]

[she chuckles, and it sounds a little bitter.]

Everything that's been going on doesn't lend itself well to nights of peaceful sleep.

[chevaleros]

No, I suppose it doesn't.

[ she sounds passive, resigned. ]

You seem to have had an unpleasant few weeks especially.

w4, saturday

[chevaleros]

[ she'll catch her at the bar, though vira is actually just here for a glass of water. she looks like she might've been working out or something, a little winded and weary; she greets sqx politely, if not too terribly enthused. ]

...I hope you've learned not to drink before Sundays.

[shiftingwinds]

[she holds up her glass. it's just water.]

I'm just having water. I was hoping the environment might cheer me up a bit, but it's not working.

[chevaleros]

[ ...vira will join her, but she's pouring herself a glass of wine. hypocrisy! ]

It's difficult to raise one's spirits after a day like this.

[ even her smile feels flat, small and forced. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[she'll



just be jealous that vira can drink and she can't. thanks for the easy envy indulgence, nu.]

...very much so.

[chevaleros]

[ thanks for easy gluttony points, meanwhile! she will definitely have a second glass for sqx, though she takes this one very slowly. ]

...Are you all right? I know you had defended Misa's innocence during trial.

w5, sunday

[shiftingwinds]

[texting tiiiime]

by any chance have you received a message with glitched text that didnt say who it was from where our usernames normally are ?

[chevaleros]

[ hm ]

I did receive one from an unknown sender, but none of the text was glitched.

[shiftingwinds]

[me, squinting]

do you mind if i asked what it said ?

[chevaleros]

[ she doesn't respond right away, maybe because today has her on-edge. but soon enough: ]

It was a message from Eleanor and Vlad. What about yours?