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[otomechapilot]

I'll do the cooking show after the Jaunt, I didn't have time to prepare it, but...

What's this I hear about Tower falling?

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[otomechapilot]

"Winning the game, and keeping it running," Sara says. "They can come back if someone who misses their fallen family wants them back, and wins. Not with the same face, the same - same haeccity - maybe Temperance comes back as the Artist - but they can bring each other back if someone wins."

She winces.

"And. And we need to... be, act in the idiom of, the missing Arcana. Remind them what they're missing, and that it's important, and why."

[rustyhonesty]

Keeping the game going. The sound of that wasn't very reassuring. Nor was the acting on the idioms.

"Reminds me which idioms those are, other than the ones you already mention. What's Star for example?"

[otomechapilot]

"Hope," she says, very quietly. "Maybe the most important. Hope, and working for something better. After the tower falls, you can see the stars: reach for them."

[rustyhonesty]

"... all this time, the Arcana have been lacking hope, of all things?"

[otomechapilot]

Sara closes her eyes. The loss of Star is what prompted the Arcana to send the veterans to Moebius. And experiencing that secondhand from Allura's dungeon was enough to tell her that Moebius was a monstrous crime.

The death of hope for the death of Hope. But two wrongs don't make a right.

"...damn it," is what she says out loud, suddenly very tired. "Yeah. No balance, no morals, no hope, and now no revolution."

[rustyhonesty]

Jean doesn't say anything and instead comes over to Sara to hug her. Because it seems like she might need a hug and heck - he needs one too to be honest.

[otomechapilot]

Sara eeps? at the sudden touch but hugs back almost immediately after.

She did need it.

...so does ROSE, probably. Damn.

Jean can forgive her for being distracted, right?

[rustyhonesty]

He definitely can. And he doesn't keep the hug going on for too long, in case it's too uncomfortable.

"Sorry. I wasn't sure what to say so..."

[otomechapilot]

"You have nothing to be sorry for," Sara insists. "Like, thank you, even."

She squeezes him once more for good measure.

"...whether or not they affect the greater World doesn't matter if this explains how they affect themselves and us," Sara says.

"I have... an idea. Probably stupid. But I'll need to talk to one of Fortune's chosen about it. I need to talk to Fortune, really..."

[rustyhonesty]

"At least Fortune seems more likely to actually, you know, listen, unlike some other Arcana."