trifocal | PC: Week 1 Curfew (Library)

[ watching... ]

It will not open?

... No. Though, if someone stronger wants to try, they're welcome to.

[ looks at basilio but becks is (allegedly) asleep. looks at her lance. ]

Perhaps we should try what we can...

By all means, be my guest.

[ his hair is going white, though. mm. ]

[ she goes to pick up the lance. ]

Please stand back.

[ and, with all of her might, she lunges and strikes at the door!

...

it does not break or budge. ]

[ instinct means he does in fact flinch when the lance hits the door, but. ]

A very strong barrier. [ ... ] What do you think it is this time?

[ she'll back away, holding the lance at her side. she gives it a bit of a long look before answering jiaoqiu. ]

... We still do not know what caused it before, do we? Only that it impeded us from moving freely, or from witnessing... what came next.

Ah, I meant... do you think we will wake up to an announcement, tomorrow.

This could be a weekly occurrence, without the killing. I suppose I never asked the angels.

Weekly...? Oh! [ she takes out her phone and squints at the date. ] Was it "Thursday" last time as well?

Yes, it was. [ ... ] Ah, you don't have the same days, that's right.

Yes.

As to your question... I could not say. I certainly hope not.

... Well, there isn't much we can do for now.

Perhaps we'll be lucky, and will be allowed to tend to whoever gets hurt tomorrow, if that comes to pass. We did today.

[ fuck. he'd really wanted to hold out hope that the lance's magic-disrupting ability would have somehow managed to keep it from losing all its power here, unlikely as it seemed. ]

[ catching his look and. same. ]

... I had been told as much, but as we see now, the items we carry with us have been rendered as powerless as we are.