[Week 2] Early morning day 320

[desperate_times_right]

[Chloe’s mental voice sounds weak and disoriented, as if she’s in shock]

Can someone come to the caves? I need help.

I think Hana’s dead.

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

What an awful way to live.

You think they’re planning a coup?

[capital_asset]

Yes.

[And Thorne is likely to be horrified by it after the fact, too. It reminds Raidou all too much of what he knows of her time with Dr. B, in terms of the mindset he forced onto her.]

It wouldn't surprise me. Ghalib and Chara likely were brought up on stories of a very idealized version of Malion's reign, and I could see them coming to believe that a return to rightthink and the Overmind could stave off or even reverse the decay of their world.

[desperate_times_right]

[This is an absolutely weird commonality but a nationalist paramilitary group in India has spent actual decades trying to kill Chloe for the crime of being descended from a king they don’t like, so in some ways she kind of gets it]

Yeah, that’s definitely the impression Hana got from Chara. Lots of gushing about trains and centuries old dresses, very little acknowledgement of why the god-king fell in the first place.

[capital_asset]

The version of events that they know is probably... judiciously edited.

[desperate_times_right]

I suppose ‘your ancestors did war crimes’ probably doesn’t make a very good bedtime story.

[capital_asset]

Probably not, no.