13 [Accidental Video / Voice]
[The PCD is in the priestess' lap, showing a curtain of hair and pursed lips. The senshi is staring intently in the distance and allows the PCD to slip from her fingers to show precisely what she is looking at -- the walls of the Inner City are in the distance -- before it lands on the ground. A rustle of clothing and the PCD is picked up and held
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[He's thinking about what Ciel said, okay.]
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Exactly. And I'm thinking that if I hone in on them, if I can, then I can track them. Toushirou thinks that even trying to predict their movements could help a lot, so... that's what I'm doing.
[And a sigh as she slumps in her chair.]
Or that's what I've been trying to do, anyway. It's difficult. It's not like they've got one solid location. They're everywhere.
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I... don't know. I want to make this place safer... find a way to try to get out of the events. Keep Usagi and Ami safe.
[She presses her fingers to her lips for a moment in thought.]
I'd see if there was a way to get out of here. Or, at least, a way for Usagi to get out of here. She can't last here. I don't really care if I'm stuck here.
[And it's said honestly.]
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... I wish I had more information for you. I've been here two years, and my best advice is, honestly, to try to keep your head down if you can.
[A click as he sets the cup down.]
I've... seen the way your friend talks. She's... very sweet. Innocent, almost.
[He worried about that, too. He knows how this place breaks people... but also how it makes them stronger.]
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[And the way Rei says it, you know how much she loves Usagi. She would die for that girl -- and she has, but Rei knows better than anyone just how badly being alone can be for Usagi... and how badly Usagi needs her friends, moreso than Rei, more than Ami, more than anyone. Usagi cannot be alone and being in Adstringendum... is painful for her. And it pains Rei to know that.]
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I know you want to protect her. ... from what Ami tells me, though, she's going to have a big fight on her hands, isn't she?
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[It's said fiercely. It's not that she 'wants' to protect Usagi. It's that she will protect her, with anything, including her life.]
That won't change, Adstringendum or Tokyo.
[But it's the next part of Al's statement that gives her pause and her fierceness fades slightly.]
... but yeah. She does.
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[Al half-smiles, into the tea.]
If you're forced to be strong, you become strong... but you lose something along the way. If you have a reason to want to become strong, something to fight for, then your strength will grow as your heart does, not before.
... she'll get there.
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She still thinks we can find a way home. It hasn't hit her yet. Maybe that's part of the reason why I'm looking into it... so I can find out, once and for all, that it's hopeless, so I can be the one to break it to her.
I'm glad I was the one who landed here first, that I was the one who had to go alone.
[The last bit is said a little quietly and now, she's staring absently out the window, lost in her own thoughts. It had been hard, doing that, by herself, wondering if she would ever see her friends again...and hugging Ami and Usagi and allowing herself to cry had been a miracle in and of itself... but Usagi? She would've broken down. She would've lost it. Rei is the strong one. Usagi is not.]
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... is there no chance that she could be happy here?
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[She sighs and looks at Al, frowning a little.]
Have you ever loved someone so much that you felt like you'd die without them?
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Yeah.
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That's how Usagi is. With everyone. Being away from Makoto and Minako is killng her, but not as bad as being away from Mamoru. And I don't know what to do about it.
[This frustrates her, to no end.]
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... then being here will be hell for her.
There is... always a chance, here, no matter what, that someone won't be there when you wake up tomorrow. There aren't any goodbyes.
[There are just empty beds.]
I'm sorry.
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