[She's been putting this off. Liet's gone after all. He'd hardly want to stay. But the horses are still here and someone needs to feed them, so that's where she is when she takes the video, at the stables, trying to figure out what exactly she's supposed to do. She knows that Poland wouldn't want her to be sad, so she tries her best not to be. ( Read more... )

Elaine doesn't know what to wish for. It bothers her in a way she can't put into words. There had to be something right? But everything she wanted was out of her reach, even in her own imagination. Any Lucifer she imagined would never live up to the real thing. Any Mona, or Michael. For the entire of the event so far, her room remained bare ( Read more... )

[Elaine clears her throat, sitting in an empty room. Her finger is bleeding from a small cut, which she's put to her mouth.]

...Angel, did you change rooms?

[Her eyes are just a little wider than normal. Instead of their usual blank whiteness, they're a tiny bit red, as though they'd been scratched at repeatedly.]

I think this is the longest I've gone without sleeping.

[She holds a hand to her forehead, but she sounds awake and alert. A small origami book is on the desk in front of her. Covering her floor are several hundred origami paper cranes.]

I don't like this event so much. [She finishes the final fold on a crane, puts it aside, and smiles furtively ( Read more... )

[It's one of the wall mounted terminals that catches Elaine resting against a door, knocking on it at the same time.]

Hotaru?

[Only after several seconds of tense silence does Elaine knock again, her eyes widening in surprise and worry.]

...Hotaru.

[This time her voice has a soft quality to it, not so much calling out, but as though she is ( Read more... )

[Another friend gone ( Read more... )

[Elaine is back in girl's clothing, although she doesn't mention the event at all. She sets the recorder down on her desk, facing her.]Has anyone seen Ganta around? I haven't seen him in a while, and I though that maybe he'd gone home, which is a good thing, of course. I just want to make sure that he's not been holed up in his room for the past ( Read more... )