rika catchall

[booksleeves]

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week 0; monday

[booksleeves]

[She is coming by to knock on the door to her room at some point.]

[syndromed]

Coming!

[ ... and rika comes and answers the door after a short wait! ]

[booksleeves]

Oh! Rika-chan.

[She has a pot of tea and some fresh bread on a tray.]

You are in this room as well?

[syndromed]

[ rika stays in the doorway, talking to susato from here. ]

Yes. It's the only one my coin lets me into.

[ but she can put two and two together, so... ]

Were you looking for Sholmes?

[booksleeves]

I was, but only to see if he wanted a cup of tea.

[I assume he's out right now, so.]

Would you like the other one?

week 0; sunday

[syndromed]

[ after execution we are just. here. rika is still holding her hand. ]

Are the spectres all we'll have to worry about from here on?

[ the cannibal is dead, so that's. good? ]

[booksleeves]

. . . I'm not sure.

[Yes, she can still hold her hand.]

I'm really not sure what will happen now. I wish I could tell you something better.

[syndromed]

[ rika nods - that's fair enough. none of them have answers. ]

I don't understand anything that's happening.

[booksleeves]

Mm. I don't, either. Does anything like those creatures exist where you're from? I. . . have never encountered anything like it.

week 1; thursday

[booksleeves]

[After Rika comes back, Susato will help her get someplace to clean up if she needs it, but otherwise would come see her after she's settled.]

Are you alright? That must have been very frightening.

[syndromed]

[ rika takes some help cleaning up but then probably wandered off to actually shower. best of both worlds.

afterwards: ]

I wasn't too scared, because everyone was there to take care of me. But it was confusing...

[booksleeves]

I heard something about a candy castle. . .

[What even happened to them.]

[syndromed]

Yes. We got shrunk down really tiny, and then we ran around in a candy castle!

week 2, monday

[syndromed]

[ rika is just out exploring the new city. walking along the canal, taking in the sights, etcetera! she gives susato a little wave when she sees her nearby.

and then, without really thinking, when she sees a shiny shard of something on the ground, reaches down to pick it up. let's just jump right into this, I suppose! ]

[booksleeves]

[Wow! What on earth. She watches this happen, getting a sense of it even if it's hard to understand exactly what any of this can mean. Rika's reaction to that specific month, the hundred years, what she said about dying, but more than that, just how different this memory is from the Rika she's met.]

Rika-chan? What was that? Was it something you recognize?

[syndromed]

[ ... in retrospect, her confidence in that memory is almost funny. she had thought she knew the rules. but that was several loops ago.

rika gives a slow nod. ]

... My time before coming here was complicated.

[booksleeves]

It does sound complicated. Like something I probably couldn't ever understand. . . but if you wanted to talk to someone about it, I would listen.

[She doesn't know anything about time loops, but the actual concerning part is how much Rika has tried to portray herself as a normal little girl.]

week 4; friday

[booksleeves]

[Susato is in the reception hall, or in the vicinity at least, looking out one of the windows.]

[syndromed]

[ rika doesn't say anything at first, but does walk over to stand next to susato.

somehow, she doesn't think being an emotional support child is going to help, this time. she's not quite sure what to say, though.

it seems like it would be different for someone you know from home to be gone, today. compared to the people you've only just met in the last couple of weeks. ]

[booksleeves]

Hello, Rika.

[She looks up and gives her a quiet smile. It is hard, in ways she's not sure how to articulate.]

[syndromed]

[ rika nods in return, and does her best to smile back.

if she were a more optimistic person, she might suggest that maybe he'll just show up again like people tend to do. but optimism is just as hard to pull off when you know everything as when you don't. ]

Mii... Do you need anything?

week 5; monday

[syndromed]

[ rika wanders over to susato when she spots her outside.

she has some snow in her hands that she's still packing into a little snowball, but doesn't actually seem all too interested in a snowball fight. actually, she looks pretty distracted by the stray drops of blood on the ground.

her neck has a bandage around it, but since the wounds are perpetual, it isn't stopping all of the blood. gross and weird! ]

... I liked having kitty ears better.

[booksleeves]

[Susato is also out exploring the snow, Ryutaro hopping by her side, making little bunny dents in the snow.

She gasps a little when she sees Rika, though.]

Oh dear, Rika. . . !

[syndromed]

... It doesn't hurt.

[ bernkastel, as a crow, is just staying behind rika. watching ryutaro. ]

[booksleeves]

Yes, I know what you mean. My whole chest is a mess of bruises right now, but I don't feel a thing. Still . . .

[It's upsetting to see that much blood from Rika.]