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[scryption]

WHO: Zero and you!
WHERE: The network
WHEN: Nebulous timeframe - after Krusnik's fall sometime in August.
WHAT: Zero has a simple inquiry.
WARNINGS: Possible mentions of torture and child abuse due to the subject matter. I'll label things accordingly.

[text;]

[It has been an eventful past couple of weeks and Zero is getting restless. She wanted so badly to raid the base with everyone else, but her own strength did not feel like it was enough, and then she thought about how her friends might become concerned if she went missing suddenly during all this.

Though she isn't there, she wants closure, too.]

Is that man dead?

I want to know everything. Did he suffer? Did he beg? Did he even understand that what he did was inexcusable?

I don't need to see proof. I just want to know.

Am I finally free?

Comments

[poisontippedcure]

That is a good way of looking at things. Dare I say it, I think I could learn something for you.

I would be happy to help you learn, if you would have me. To try different things with you. The future may be blank, but that doesn't mean you need to walk into it alone.

[scryption]

Why would I deny you? We are friends.

[Simple.]

I... remember. "Not nothing, but the beginning of something."

That is what this is.

[poisontippedcure]

That is good to hear, thank you.

[She doesn't want to say that her time with Krusnik, short as it was, left her feeling doubtful. That it left her feeling like she'd only hurt those she cared about. That she is still healing.]

[After all, her time with Krusnik was short, and Zero wasn't so lucky. So she continues.]

"Not nothing, but the beginning of something." I like that.

I think this will be the beginning of a wonderful future for you.

[scryption]

It was the sorceress who said that. [what was her name] Y'shtola, I believe she was called? I am unsure of the spelling.

It must be. I... also hope your future is wonderful, Rose.

[poisontippedcure]

Y'shtola? You know Y'shtola?

[Several minutes later.]

Actually, wait. Perhaps we should talk in person. Would it be okay if I come to you?

[scryption]

I do.

[Wait, she doesn't... oh.]

We can speak in person. I live somewhere else now.

[She texts Rose separately off the network with it. Jusis' place!]

I will meet you outside.