Camp: private conversations

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Respond here for a private conversation with Red! All comment threads are screened.

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I enjoy spending time with the campers and doing camp activities with them.

You can guess the parts I do not enjoy.

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Then why do you enforce it if you don't like it?

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Because I have to. There's rules I have to follow.

[killtheanimals]

Does spending time with campers really outweigh killing them for you?

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Yes.

I can't fix everything. I can't make it all right. But at least I can make things a bit better for those who die here, in the time before their deaths.

I don't trust anyone else to not be cruel to the campers.

[killtheanimals]

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Then you think all of this is somehow saving us.

[His voice is cold.]

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No. Saving you would be letting you leave.

[killtheanimals]

What's preventing you from doing that?

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I can't tell you.

[killtheanimals]

[Tch.]

Who made the rules?

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Someone a long, long time ago. Someone with good intentions but a terrible situation to deal with.

[killtheanimals]

A terrible situation that required sacrifices?

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[She dosn't say anything out loud, but she nods.]

[killtheanimals]

Are we being sacrificed to the rugosa, or something related to it?

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That situation was in the past. It's different now, but traces of what had to happen then are still around.

[killtheanimals]

[...Once again, that's not an answer, Red.]

Are we being sacrificed to the rugosa, or something related to it?

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[Distraction isn't working, then.]

Why would you think that in the first place?

[killtheanimals]

Because Dan was obsessed with it and appears to be made of it. They found what looked like a piece of it rooted in Soma's brain, too.

Dan was no golem. What was he really?

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[Red sort of just. Sighs in defeat at that.]

I didn't think you would be the first one who needed this.

[The space around Red distorts suddenly, like it usually does when she uses her powers, but this time, in the blink of an eye, Mitsuru will find himself pinned to the ground face-down.]

...I had hoped you wouldn't need it.

[And then he'll feel the prick of a needle going into the back of his neck. Within seconds, everything will go black.

Mitsuru will wake up on a couch in the rec room some time later. He will not recall the conversation he just had with Red. As far as he will remember, he went looking for Red but couldn't find her.]