XXXV.

[dark_butler]

Has anyone heard anything of or from Kagura yet? Still nothing for me, although I have been searching.

I'd appeal to the better nature of whomever took her to let her go, but I rather doubt whoever it is has a better nature.

[ooc: Strike private but hackable.]

Comments

Private to Walter

[just_rayne]

I got nothing here either. The fact that she has been gone this long is definitely not a good sign.

Private to Rayne

[dark_butler]

No.

And how are you doing? From personal experience, I recognize some of the signs of the aftermath of the Judgement.

Private to Walter

[just_rayne]

I'm fine. I can go a few days without rest. Though I had to get out of the sun, I was starting to get heat fatique.

Where are you going with that train of thought? Cause I highly doubt that the cult would bother with the pretense of looking for her if she were a judgement victim. And someone would have found her by now.

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

I meant the signs in you. The Judgement is harder on mind than body for those like us who can heal ourselves.

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[just_rayne]

Yeah well my judgment was a three on one affair and they had an axe to grind with me. So of course I was down for the count for a few days but you also found me.

I'd loved to put the blame on the fuckers for the girl's disappearance but seriously this isn't their style.

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

No. She's an innocent in their book. Thus we have one of the few things short of the crack of doom that has me willing to be working not at cross-purposes with them.

So what does that tell us? That it's someone who has no concerns about taking innocents. In this City? There are innumerable options. I can't help but wonder about Millennium simply because she is associated with me and I don't think they're going to let me go so easily, but there's been no offer of a trade, nothing.

The silence is deafening.

If you want to miss my point, I won't belabor it.

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[just_rayne]

You are not the only one who has thought of the Nazi shitheads especially if they caught wind of that little thing that is off about her. I would imagine the whole turning into an animal thing might be appealing to a certain shithead in particular.

What the fuck is that suppose to mean?

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

If I thought my prayers wouldn't fall on deaf ears, I'd pray that she was in anyone's hands but his.

As for the other, my point is that I am concerned about your mental health. The aftermath of the Judgement is, from personal experience, anything but easy. I grant that I am no paragon of mental stability and was not before Pyramid Head got his hands on me, but I cannot see how its aftereffects can be negligible for anyone.

I was inquiring after your well-being. As people do when they care what happens to each other.

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[just_rayne]

I don't want to talk my mental health. There are bigger things to worry about then my off days. and if I think about I fucking think about for too long kill someone.

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

As I was saying, I suspect Millennium because of Kagura's relationship to me, but I have no other ideas. I discount the cult at this time. Pyramid Head would have been trumpeting his success for one thing, and the other is she is not the right sort of target.

I know little of these shinigami and arrancar that seemed so determined to tear the City apart over who was sleeping with whom.

Does no one learn from Romeo and Juliet?

Regardless of that and their willingness to cut each other up, would they take Kagura?

[ooc: Yep, he's back to the idea of not belaboring the point. He's certainly been in her shoes recently enough to know how useless it is to go inquiring after the health of someone who neither wishes to think nor speak of it.]

Private to Walter//Unhackable

[just_rayne]

I don't think either group cares enough about anyone outside of their factions to kidnap her. They are far too busy killing each other. Practically everyday one of them is calling for a medic.

[ooc; Smart guy, she is Miss Skirt The Issue at the moment.]

Private to Rayne//Unhackable

[dark_butler]

There is one other about whom I know little, but who is new to the City. This "Immacolata" woman who was calling for worshippers and speaking of showing people purity and death.

If Kagura falls under the definition of purity for one group of fanatics, it stands to reason that she may for another as well.