[Accidental Video]

[frozenmemories]

[When the video cuts on, you can see the side of Cirno's dress but can hear her voice. Someone did not mean to turn this thing on. If one was to look closely, one could notice she is at the dorms. ]

Hey! Sanae, Where have you been? I haven't seen you....Wait...No....Sanae this isn't funny...You can't...

[There is a clunk as the PDA falls to the ground and shows Cirno's face as words fail her. It's a sad and shocked expression slowly fading into anger. She stands there a moment before lashing out at the wall, punching it a few times before taking off with a frustrated scream, leaving the device there on the ground, like she never knew she had it.]


((OOC- She's taken off. If you want to look for her, just let me know in the comments. Otherwise she's just going to hide where she has run off to for a few days.))

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[pencilpremonition]

"Cirno, you're getting blood everywhere," Becca said gently, but with a careful sternness to her tone. "Let me patch you up. It's not about being strong or not, it's about taking care of yourself. Like your friend said," she offered, still trying to get at her to start tending to her hands.

[frozenmemories]

That small worry now grew to a bigger worry. Now that she was in a better state of mind, this freaked her out a bit, "Oops...I'm sorry..." She slowly pulls her hands away from the both of them. She uses her wrist to rub at her eyes before putting them in her lap. She watches them for a second before looking up, "How can we do that? I don't have my ice back...That's how I always healed up before."

[justaflowergirl]

"I think..." Yuka stops, then looks at Becca. "I'm sorry, I don't know your name. But it sounds like you know something that will help..."

[pencilpremonition]

"It's Becca," she answered quietly, opening up the kit and reaching out to take one of Cirno's hands. "And yes, I do. I'm...used to doing first aid a lot."

[frozenmemories]

Cirno met Becca halfway, picking her hand up out of her lap and holding it out with a slightly curious look. She was frowning a bit but didn't say a word at least about why she was frowning. "Oh yeah..You guys have never met. Becca, this is Yuka. Yuka, this is Becca." She gestures between the two with her other hand, careful not to fling any blood around before returning it to her lap.

The frown changes to a small smile as she closes her eyes and slumps a little bit more. Everything was just catching up to her and she was starting to feel the pain in her hands and the fact she was worn out completely, in mental, emotional and physical. She wasn't falling asleep or anything yet. She didn't want to go back, She wanted to stay with Yuka and Becca here for a while, but she would not voice that.

[justaflowergirl]

Yuka smiled at Becca, hoping that the expression would convey something she didn't know how to say. Normally she'd say something like 'Pleased to meet you'... but meeting like this wasn't pleasing at all. But she was glad that Becca was here. That there was someone like Becca at all.

She shifted a bit, moving her arm so she could give Cirno a little more support without getting in Becca's way.

[pencilpremonition]

"This is gonna hurt," she warned gently. "A lot. But you're the strongest, remember?" she said gently, trying to get Cirno to smile. She held Cirno's hand out over the dirt, nothing beneath it as she held up a small bottle. "It's okay to cry if you need to, but this is important," she insisted, then carefully poured a bit of hydrogen peroxide over the damage to her hand. Once it had all run over and onto the ground, she set the bottle aside and got to work wrapping her scrapes with gauze.

[frozenmemories]

The small smile grew a bit wider at Becca's comment. It was bringing a idea to her, to show this place why she called herself that. That train of thought quickly de-railed as the peroxide hit her hand. Her eyes shot open and. She tried hard not to pull away at the pain it caused.

"Ow...What is that stuff?"

Cirno looked back to Yuka and at least tried to smile like she usually would, although it was off it's mark by quite a bit.

[justaflowergirl]

Yuka watched Becca curiously. She'd sort of heard of first aid... but injuries weren't something that they had to deal with very often back home. If they needed actual assistance for anything, it was usually either for disease or something really unusual.

"What does that do?" she asked.

[pencilpremonition]

"It's hydrogen peroxide, and it'll keep you from getting an infection," she answered seriously. "Come on, other hand next," she said, finishing up bandaging the one and reaching for the other. "It hurts now so that it doesn't hurt a lot for a lot longer."

[frozenmemories]

"Oh..I guess if it works." Cirno offered up her other hand without another word on the liquid. She's quiet for a moment before blurting out without thinking, "They want us to figure this all out...Why do they keep doing this? If they would stop torturing us and just help it'd be better! Maybe we'd figure it out better!" Her voice was still horse and tired but the meaning was there, Frustration lined with anger and hurt. If she could scream or yell, Cirno would have done so without a second thought.

After a moment, She realizes she just said that out loud and ducks her head down. She really didn't want to say that out loud. She is shaking again and her face was a blush. This was embarrassing, since she wanted to keep that quiet and to herself.

[justaflowergirl]

It may have just been a random outburst, but Yuka was considering it seriously. She thought back to conversations she'd had since coming her, to her encounters with the staff... and came to a conclusion. She probably couldn't explain her reasoning to anyone... but it felt right, and Yuka tended to trust her instincts in these matters.

"Maybe they can't. Maybe something worse would happen if they helped too much."

[pencilpremonition]

Becca nodded in agreement. "I think the staff's being as manipulated as we are," she offered quietly, working to wrap Cirno's hand quickly. She'd have to restock her first aid kit after this, but after what she'd done with Alex earlier, she wasn't exactly hurting for money.

[frozenmemories]

Looking back up, Cirno frowned a bit. What could be worse then what had already happened? She wasn't sure what could be worse or if she even wanted to find out. "But there has ta be a better way. Takin' people and punishin' people...and all we get is some dumb story we don't know all of?"

She blew a bit of her hair out of her eyes, trying to collect her thoughts a bit better on the matter. "It's stupid. Even if they can't help, Give us what we need ta figure it out. Even I know that!"

[justaflowergirl]

Yuka shrugged. "I can't be sure... but I don't think the staff is responsible for the disappearances. It would go blatantly against everything else they are trying to do."

[pencilpremonition]

"Yeah," Becca agreed sadly. "I think they're just trying to cope with things as best they can... The system itself is probably behind what's actually happening."

[frozenmemories]

The fairy just nods along. This system kept jerking her around and she was tired of it. She was not a fairy yo-yo dang it! "System huh? Maybe it needs a reminder that we want to help...but can't with all of this. Fight and win...Well this type of battling sucks. Back home was.." She trails off, wincing and her face going blank for a second. Oops, Hit too close to a lost memory.

[justaflowergirl]

"Or maybe the system is here to help fight against it." Yuka shook her head. "I don't know. But... it just feels like too easy an answer." That actually wouldn't have been her first way to describe it, but Becca lacked and Cirno had forgotten the cultural background to understand 'The first boss never has anything to do with the actual Incident.'

"Maybe it's just that I've been on the other side of it, but... I don't want to jump to conclusions too quickly."

She was a bit surprised at Cirno saying she didn't like this type of battling. She'd seemed to like the similar style back home well enough. Maybe she'd forgotten it? Or maybe her feelings had just changed after what had happened here. There wasn't any way to tell.

[pencilpremonition]

Becca sighed, shifting to wrap her arms around Cirno again. "I don't know what to say, Cirno... I don't... I don't know anything," she said, pressing her eyes shut to try to hold back tears. "I don't know what to do... I just... I'll hold you, and I'll love you, and I'll never leave you, Cirno, I swear..."

She didn't want to admit to the fact that she didn't really feel smart enough to help with planning or picking apart what was going on. She was certain she'd make a mess of it if she even spoke up.

[frozenmemories]

Cirno's face fell a bit at hearing the first part of what Becca said. She hugged Becca back, a look of determination forming as she listened. She did blush a bit at the last part. Love wasn't something she was used to...at least as far as she could remember."We will figure it out Becca. Besides, We gotta show what the Strongest of our worlds can do."

Yes, she knew this wasn't the best time to be bringing that up but she wasn't sure how to do it any better. Her childish mindset kept her from saying much else, as she wasn't to sure on how to handle this. She looked to Yuka, hoping that maybe she had an idea. "Right Yuka?"

[justaflowergirl]

Yuka smiled a bit wistfully. She wanted to express how she felt too... but she found she couldn't just say it directly like that. Part of it was the situation. But mostly... there were things she just couldn't say, the way things were now.

So for now she just gave Cirno's shoulders another squeeze, and hoped that it would convey her feelings somehow.

Yuka didn't say anything for a bit. She had plenty of theories about various things around here, but did she know anything that pointed to a course of action?

There was one thing.

"The towers. Lelouch told me that opening them would let almost everyone go home... but some would have to stay behind. And there was that insane stunt last week... I'm not sure how much I trust him, but the towers have to be important somehow. Do you know anything about them?"

[pencilpremonition]

"Send a bunch of prefects to the tower and a monster comes out. Then we have to try and kill it, quick, before we all die," Becca answered tiredly, squeezing Cirno reassuringly. "That's all I know."

[frozenmemories]

Cirno nodded, a sudden smile crossing her face. She sort of understood them! She was actually glad to be paying attention to them. "Ya gotta have one from each Dorm. I dunno the whole thing but Becca's right. Some monster appears and we gotta fight it. Players can take your weapon and give it to ya for fighting."

She pauses for a moment, thinking back to the first one , remembering something important, "But not if your player isn't there. I had to play 'Bait the worm' ta help out with the first one. But they could prolly just give ya someone else's weapon ta fight with." Not something she wanted to repeat. Being worm food was not top of her list of things she wanted to to EVER.

"We haven't tried to open one for a few rounds. We did get some cool stuff when we finished though."

[justaflowergirl]

Yuka nodded thoughtfully. She'd thought it couldn't be as simple as "a bunch"... or wouldn't they have already done them all? There didn't seem to be a shortage of prefects.

It also explained why becoming a prefect didn't seem to have a thing to do with any sort of school function - because it was really about -this-.

"Hmmm... What dorms were you in? I don't know if I'd want to try opening one any time soon... But it'd be nice to know if we could."

It'd be nice to know if they'd want to, come to that. The consequences of following this path were (supposedly) leaving people behind, who would perpetuate the system... but what were the consequences of Lelouch's path? She wasn't sure he even knew, and that was dangerous.

"What other towers are open? I'd really like to get a better idea what they are... I only saw a bit of the bottom floor in the Arena one."

[pencilpremonition]

Becca sighed, shaking her head. "I don't know. I don't know any of this. It's not something I care about. This place is better than where I came from. For all its problems, for all I hate about it..."

She choked up a bit and squeezed Cirno tighter. "This place is better than home... I want to stay here..."