Twenty-Eight

[hurtjustalittle]

What-

What’s going on? Why am I human? I earned my immortality back, you bastards, I played by your rules and endured your games and I earned it back, so why would you take it away again? Give it back! I didn't even do anything yet, give it back!

[Her voice becomes progressively shakier as she rants.]

Give it back!

Comments

[miss_enma_ai]

[Will be waiting at your house until you go back to normal]

[hurtjustalittle]

[Just before the re-education wears off, she spots Ai from her window.]

Good morning, comra--!

[Winces]

[miss_enma_ai]

[Holds up a hand in greeting. She's dressed in the normal grey clothes as well.]

[hurtjustalittle]

[She collapses on the ground once the droning wears off, then looks over at Ai weakly.]

[miss_enma_ai]

Are you alright?

[hurtjustalittle]

...Look at me. I'm all... human.

[miss_enma_ai]

They took away everything again.

[hurtjustalittle]

But why? I didn't even do anything yet!

[miss_enma_ai]

They want to torture us.

[hurtjustalittle]

But they promised liberation.

[miss_enma_ai]

They?

[She's assuming this is still the same town]

[hurtjustalittle]

The voice on the television said they were coming to rescue us. Instead the liars just made everything worse!

[miss_enma_ai]

How do we know they did this?

[hurtjustalittle]

The man had the same accent as the ones they have here now.

Unless it's all just one of Mayfield's scemes. Trying to make us miss the good old fashioned capitalist Mafield, perhaps.

[miss_enma_ai]

That is what I was thinking.

[hurtjustalittle]

I actually thought they would free us. I actually fell for-

[She moves to cover her face with her hand, but flinches away suddenly. She scraped her palm quite badly when she fell.]

Ah- ahhh!