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[optimistickey]

...What's the USE?! Even when we kill it and it's dead, it just keeps coming back!

And the computers say it's Friday...

It's no good trying to kill it! It's just...it's no use...

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[hellgun]

...Sora.

[optimistickey]

What?

[hellgun]

This isn't you. Calm down.

I understand you're upset, but giving up? You would never utter those words. Would your friends just want you to lie in the monster's path and let it crush you?

There's always a way. Always a light. That's what you told me. Or are you going to go against your own words?

[optimistickey]

No...I'm not gonna give up! I'd never do that.

I just...wish we knew WHAT way that was now.

[manamagic]

There has to be another way.

[optimistickey]

I think you're right.

Killing the monster...it's not gonna get us out of here. We have to find another way.

[manamagic]

Maybe we're supposed to.... I don't know, help it? It's obviously completely out of place here, which means it came from somewhere else. And it should probably go back.

[optimistickey]

If we need to help it, then we need to figure out what's wrong with it first. It could leave us if it wanted to, but it never does.

[welshonionmage]

I know it's hard. But we really can't give up, trust me.

[optimistickey]

I'm not gonna give up!

[hawkeye_shooter]

Sora.

I understand how futile this must seem but you shouldn't give up because of a setback like this. It's...important to move forward because, while you may not realize it, there are people who look to you for strength and when they see you falter they also begin to falter.

...

I guess what I'm saying is to not be so hard on yourself. The situation we are in is not normal by any means and a monster coming back, while frustrating, just means we need to look closer for the root of the problem...like what we were doing on the Intrepid. I think our answers will lie in events like that more so than anything involving the monster.

[optimistickey]

I-I know. I know people are counting on me. I won't give up on them.

I think you're right. I'm just...not used to doing things that way! I'm used to beating the monster and then everything's fixed.

[hawkeye_shooter]

Good. You're very strong Sora.

Well, I guess that's where people like me come in who have faced monsters that don't die no matter how many bullets you put in them. We just have to approach this from a different light...everything has a weakness...we just haven't found it yet and I don't think we will until we crack a few more secrets (which is where Harry will come in, he has the detective brain for this after all).

Keep your eyes and ears open.

[optimistickey]

I'm not sure of ...Thanks.

But if we even kill it and it just comes back to life...then it's no use trying to kill it again. I feel like we have to figure out something else to get off here...but we need more clues!

I will.

[halfdarkened]

Giving up already? C'mon, Sora, I thought you were stronger than that.

You've got to pull it together. I don't blame you. Frankly, I'm TICKED. But all it means is we haven't solved the puzzle yet. But we did get a day's peace. And the plan did work for a day.

[optimistickey]

Hey, I'm not giving up!

I...I know. I will. I just really thought for awhile that we had it.

Yeah, we got a day's peace, and then someone else took away our holiday 'cause of it!

[halfdarkened]

Good to hear it.

Me too. And if all else fails, we'll keep killing it until it's dead.

I'm caring less and less about what day of the week the stupid clocks say it is. We lose a day. So what? The clocks say it isn't Thanksgiving, but I still plan on celebrating by being with you guys.

[optimistickey]

Hey, you know I can't stay down forever!

I'm not so sure killing it is what we're supposed to do here.

That's what holidays are all about after all!