80 [Voice] Backdated to earlier today, around 2:00 PM.

[marsfireignite]

I broke my last bottle of ink.

Does anyone have any to spare?

Comments

[Video]

[buntails]

Rei-chan? Did something happen? [Was it just an accident?]

Anyway, I have some. I kept some that Michiru-san made, when she left. Do you need it?

[Video]

[marsfireignite]

Nothing new.

[She's in her room, carefully cleaning off her hands, which are covered in ink.]

I'd appreciate it.

[Video to Offline]

[buntails]

I'll come right over.

[She clicks off the feed with a quick goodbye, and finds the ink before heading to Rei's room. She stays outside, and knocks on the door lightly first.]

Rei-chan? Can I come in?

[Offline]

[marsfireignite]

Yeah, sure, it's open.

[Rei is dropping a blackened rag into the trash bin now, her hands mostly clean save for underneath her nails. That'll take actually scrubbing.]

[painhumbles]

So. How was prom? [Yeah, Rei. Don't bullshit a bullshitter.]

[marsfireignite]

... it was fun.

[And it had been, up until a certain point. She's not lying.]

Private;

[checkoutpandora]

Despite L-U-C-I-F-E-R being there? [REVENGE IS SWEET.]

Private;

[marsfireignite]

[Gabriel, you're a whore and no one likes you. 8(

There's a tight sigh through her teeth.]

-- I broke it by throwing it at my wall, alright.

[effyourcupcake]

[Someone is puttering around the outskirts of the temple in the dark.]

[marsfireignite]

[It only takes Rei a moment or two for her to realize someone is out there -- and with a quick glance out the window, it's only confirmed that someone is out there.

-- and she pushes herself out of bed to investigate, racing down the stairs to push open the back doors, eyes narrowed.]

Show yourself or I'm going to act like you're an enemy.

[effyourcupcake]

Woah! Woah, I'm not-

[Scrambling out.]

[marsfireignite]

[And Rei pauses before lowering her ofuda, which she had drawn from her sleeves, to... stare blankly for a couple of seconds.]

-- what are you doing out here? I could've hurt you.

[She doesn't recognize the girl, but she looks young. And she doesn't feel dangerous.]

[hexdontlie]

Klutz.

[marsfireignite]

You could call it that.

[She threw it against a wall. Actually. Sob.]

[hexdontlie]

[JINX HAS A FEELING THAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.]

This is why you can't have nice things.

[marsfireignite]

It was an accident.

[lol no it wasn't]

[Offline]

[wingsandwill]

[He's been avoiding her, for a combination of reasons both because of her and not, but finally he decides he should go talk to her. So late afternoon have an angel at your doorway, leaning against it and saying nothing, just kind of looking at you.]

[Offline]

[marsfireignite]

[She looks as if she was in the middle of doing something -- sorting through what's been destroyed by the ink she threw against the wall, a pile of clothing at the foot of her bed, some of it blackened, some of it not -- but it's been forgotten in favor of Rei reading through her journals. She's at the older ones, the edges of the pages yellowed, and she doesn't look up when she speaks.

It's easy to do that when you feel people coming.]

There's soup downstairs.

[It's absent, and she turns another page, because it's getting to be their dinnertime, and it's easier to focus on that than the pit in her stomach.]

[Offline]

[wingsandwill]

I'm not hungry.

[Being upset kills his appetite, and even if he were hungry, he wouldn't be interested in being diverted. So instead he takes her words as an invitation to come in, glancing around at the ink stains.]

You threw it, didn't you?

[Offline]

[marsfireignite]

[Ugh. Fine. She closes the journal with a snap, setting her jaw for a moment or two while she decides how to respond.]

I said I broke it.

I didn't have to say how.