synopsychic | Yeah, this is getting bad... [Day after Joker (aka, Hajime) being attacked]

Hey, guys? This is Right. I guess I'm kind of a newbie, but that's not important right now. We got a problem. A BIG problem, one different than those Hunters Thorne talked about earlier. You guys heard about Baadur? He's my boss; I work with his pack as one of their corvigers. Nice guys, but you don't wanna piss off the girl werewolf. Trust me; she's that scary.

Anyway, last night, one of the others got attacked by one of Bagrat's men. His name's Joker, and he was protecting one of the other corvigers when it happened. Joker's okay. He's hurt, but Baadur patched him up. He also got proof of the attack, too, so that the local authorities can get on it. But Baadur and everyone else thinks that Bagrat's trying to go after us in order to scare Baadur into dropping out of the election. They also think that his people might be the ones that attacked that person close to Lady Elphaba recently, too, so that she could drop out as well.

That's not happening. This isn't how elections are supposed to be run. You're supposed to just debate and bicker over policy stuff, not try and kill each other! And we need to find a way to get this jerk and his people to stop.

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...yeah, he's dead.

[For a moment, Minako is quiet, as nearly every curse she knows cycles through her head. Then she gives herself a mental shake.]

Are you somewhere safe?

With the delegation.

I'm just...done with it all Minako. I can't take much more.

[Minako can feel her heart breaking a little.

A pep talk would probably be worse than useless at this point; the words would just ring hollow and Yua would hate it.]

Is there anything I can do to help?

[Given that Yua already feels hollow enough? It would be heard on deaf ears. This was the nail in the coffin and we don't speak about what happened with Souji. ~~The big dick dingus~~]

I...I don't know anymore.

I'm tired of these jaunts and stupid faceless god wannabes watch us screw up while they sit back and watch us and mark us for some damn game we don't even know what the hell to do. How much is enough?

[Minako can't remember when she last felt so helpless - well, no. She can. But she and the others had been able to push their way through anyway and gotten themselves a(n admittedly expensive) miracle.

She doesn't see any miracles on the horizon now. Yua's falling apart practically before her eyes and she's not sure there's anything she can do to stop it.]

I don't know. I wish I did. Because this—

[She can feel herself tearing up, and she really hopes Elphaba doesn't walk in here and see her like this.]

It's too much and it's not fair.

[It would take a miracle to fix this Fool's heart. Having it constantly stepped on for maybe almost two years between traveling and not having much of a home, being the puppet for faceless beings who call themselves gods and not care for their well being in her mind, and constantly losing people she cared about...for someone who was dependent on bonds, it was much easier to not have them at all now.

What was the point if they all go away and leave her alone? And now the only one who even caught sight of her growing Emptiness was taken away and she's not sure if he'll come back. Her voice shakes even as she mentally sends her message.]

I'm so sorry Minako...I'm so sorry...

[If she could, Minako would go out and find a Trump to punch right now.

Instead, she does her best not to panic at the sheer hopelessness in Yua's voice.]

This is not your fault.

It feels like it though! I can't even protect those I care about, what the hell am I even good for anymore?!

YOU HEAR THAT YOU BASTARD TRUMPS?! I HOPE YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED FROM ME!

[She doesn't care anymore and she just...breaks down in tears. She's sorry Minako but this seemed to be the last straw.]

Yua...

[She hates this. She hates that the Trumps have more or less driven Yua to this, and all in the name of - what? Even if their goals are altruistic, what's the point of taking and claiming them if all they're going to do is break them? How the hell does this help anything?]

[What was their goal? She didn't care about it anymore.]

I'm sorry...

It's not your fault.

It certainly feels like it was.

I know it does.

[Don't mind the sniffling.]

You're...safe aren't you?

I'm safe.

Good...I don't want to lose anyone else now.

Yeah, this is getting bad... [Day after Joker (aka, Hajime) being attacked]

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