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[Hope you're all enjoying your sudden, Liminal Space-filled existences, Travelers. Either way, there's suddenly going to be a very tentative, very timid psychic broadcast.]

Um... excuse me...

[For anyone who met Mai during the Jaunt, she's certainly entirely different now--but then again, that's why she's doing this in the first place, despite being terrified of bothering people in this way. So after a brief pause, she rallies her courage.]

...My name is Mai--um, for the people I didn't know, and I... I was really different in that Jaunt b-but... I just wanted to say that I'm really really sorry!

[There's no visual here--she doesn't have the capability--but even so, it's pretty obvious to anyone who knows her that she's bowing her head here in her shame and apology.]

I did some truly terrible things to everyone, and I...I was really-- [A pause.] Just... I'm very sorry. That's... that's all.

Oh-- um. Near-san... [...what does she even say to him? She's really not sure. After a moment, a really awkward pause, she manages a fumbled thought--] Can we...talk?

[For those who would rather go the action route, Mai is not hard to find; she's tucked against a penny slots machine, arms wrapped around her knees, chin resting on them and eyes downcast. Seems this Jaunt took quite a lot out of her as well, but then again, dying isn't fun for anyone.

There are people she knows she needs to find and check on, but... well, she needs just a moment longer.]

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[... Well. She hadn't thought of it that way, but this sure does sound like the King of This Issue talking right now.

A tentative pause.]

So I... [...] I'll try...to take responsibility for all of the people I hurt but-- but not be so upset at myself over it...?

[hakodate]

Acknowledge it. Apologize, if it makes you feel better.

But don't let anyone make you feel like shit for something you had no control over.

[Says the man who's a goddamned professional at feeling shitty about things he has no control over. He's trying, okay.]

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[... Coming from Hijikata, it does seem a little like that--she does suspect that he has the same problems. But all of that said, she thinks... that he must know what he's talking about.

Besides, her tone at least grows a little warmer.]

Oh no... nobody is mad at me, Hijikata-san... everyone is so understanding and kind, I almost don't... don't know how to take it...

[After she hurt so many of them. But ultimately...]

I guess...in a way, I feel like we're all more like...family now.

[hakodate]

[Family, huh.

That's...a rare enough feeling, these days, that it's worth holding onto, he supposes.]

Good. Anyone gives you shit, you tell me about it.

[...it might be better if she did not tell him about it.]

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[She is sensing that it might be better if she does not tell him about it.

Nobody needs to deal with a Hijikata scolding. Though the thought that he would be willing to scold someone over her is... both strange and warming, all at once.

She still looks a little alarmed.]

Oh... no, it's okay, Hijikata-san, truly...! Everyone has been really kind and understanding, um, so you don't have to...

[go all Hijikata on them.]

[hakodate]

[HE WILL MAKE DRINKING CUPS OF THEIR SKULLSSSSSSSS]

Offer stays open.

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[SHE WASN'T PREPARED FOR HIJIMAMA IN ATTACK MODE

but that said. It's not like she doesn't understand what the offer means, and...she's touched. She will hopefully never have to take him up on it, because Hijikata is scary when he wants to be and she wouldn't inflict that on other people if she had the choice, but! She's definitely touched.

There's a touch of a giggle to her mental voice.]

Thank you very much, Hijikata-san...now I know that I don't ever have to worry about it.

[hakodate]

Think we've all got enough shit to worry about without letting something like this drag us all down worse, right?

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Mm...! We all have to work together.

[She's aware, in her own way, that things are getting worse and worse for them as Travelers, and that's ominous. But even so--]

So long as we all work together, I know we'll be okay.

[Even so, she still has all of that otome protag faith.]