cloud in the sky....

[bookpapers]

ZIA CR FINALLY AFTER 5000 YEARS

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w0 friday

[bookpapers]

[WHERE'S CLOUD Lavi will just head straight to him when he sees him,]

Hey -- was Yuffie with you last night?

[residentmerc]

[ do you want him to be holding a hand. anyway his voice is raspy from smoke or whatever who cares: ]

Yeah. She was around the pyre with us when the fog set in. Should be alright.

[bookpapers]

[THE BURNT CRISPY HAND I HATE IT HERE

lavi hears his very smoke-raspy voice. looks at cloud. looks at the HAND.]

Is that where you found...?

[residentmerc]

[ ... looks... at the hand... he needs a bucket ]

No. There was a fire around the swamp when we woke up. Aerith found this there.

[ and cloud took it. because. he wears gloves. ]

[bookpapers]

[DO THEY HAVE BUCKETS.]

...C'mon. I'll grab a sheet from the house.

[he will get a bedsheet for CLOUD'S THIRD HAND. and also get him a glass of water]

[residentmerc]

[ i... don't know...

but yeah sure he'll follow ]

That could work.

[bookpapers]

[he will look at the bedsheet. this is actually so much fabric to wrap a hand in? he will instead take a smaller piece of fabric from all the halloween costumes lying around and hand it to cloud.]

Here.

[residentmerc]

[ we are wrapping this hand into a bundle of something synthetic and glittery. it's fine. this is fine. cloud at least looks a little relieved to not have to keep carrying A HAND ]

Thanks. [ Shit's Fucked, ]

[bookpapers]

[Shit's Fucked!!!

Lavi will hand him a glass of water,]

And this too.

[residentmerc]

... I can handle myself. [ but he will still take the water and drink. it does look like he feels a little better after!!! wow!!! the power... of hydration... ]

[bookpapers]

[the power of hydration after being in a swamp that's on FIRE!!!]

Gives me something to do. I need more of that and less running the same theories over and over again.

[residentmerc]

Only one I've got is that it's the cultists' work, but-- [ vague gesture around them ] What isn't?

[ useless... ]

[bookpapers]

[it's cloud bc he loved aventurine...]

If it is, then I wish I knew why they decided to pick off Aventurine. He was a sacrifice, same as us.

[he thinks.................]

[residentmerc]

[ just vote for me ]

Maybe that was part of it. Nothing said for sure that ritual was going to be done all at once at the end of the deadline.

[bookpapers]

[STOP]

...Yeah, we just assumed because of the two months' wait. And because the Masks didn't mention the details.

[and now one of them is DEAD]

[residentmerc]

And now one of 'em is dead, and we still don't know anything.

[ steals your META. ]