[catchall for sieghart]

[feytality]

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[feytality]

Can you tell me about it, now...? I'd love to hear what you were up to, as long as you don't get in trouble or anything.

[ercnerd]

Hm . . . We had extra credit assignments and weekly activities. When we weren't watching the trials and expulsions as a group, we played games.

[feytality]

That doesn't sound too bad. You had lots of applesauce and animal crackers, too, right?

[ercnerd]

They were all we had until we gained access to the kitchen. Then we had a party with those strange brownies . . .

[feytality]

Strange.... brownies?

[ ??? ]

[ercnerd]

. . . Leo made them. I couldn't stop laughing.

[feytality]

[ ?????????? ]

Did he put something weird in them?

[ercnerd]

He must have. There's no way anyone could've been that happy after eating a few brownies. It wasn't just me, either.

[feytality]

Weird......

Oh, how did the message work? Did you get my origami?

[ercnerd]

Origami?

I received your drawings. They were cute, by the way.

[feytality]

I tried to send you guys origami.

[ sad that it never made it... ]

I'm glad you liked them. Thanks for the nice things you said in your letter.

[ercnerd]

[He wonders if the black crane in the box is her doing.]

I didn't write much, but that's because I did say that we'd talk in person. And I didn't write them to be nice.

[feytality]

It's funny... I had so much I wanted to tell you.... But now that I actually see you...

.... I can't remember any of it....

[ercnerd]

. . . Is that the only thing you don't remember?

[feytality]

What do you mean?

[ercnerd]

[He leans back in thought.]

You don't have to tell me now. If it ever comes to mind again, just tell me then.

[feytality]

.... Oh, well... Mostly I wanted to tell you about everything happening, but... You were watching anyway, right?

And I regretted not asking more about you. I wanted to know about your hopes, and dreams, and fears...

[ercnerd]

My fears? Why would you want to know something like that? . . . Besides, you've already seen it.

[feytality]

.... I never really asked you about it.... But to be honest, I do want to know... If you don't mind telling me.

[ercnerd]

[Didn't he say that he didn't want to talk about it then?

But Maya told him about hers. Sieghart rests his head against the back of the couch with a sigh.]

. . . There isn't a distinction. My hope, dream, and fear are all the same. I want to avenge my brothers who were killed.

[feytality]

[ yea and she didn't press!!! but she kind of wants to know now ]

Oh... I'm sorry.

[ no wonder he and sakyou vibed ]

What happened to them?

[ercnerd]

[I killed them.

His thought answers immediately. The spoken words take a few moments.]

. . . I was careless. They were supposed to be immortal, but my mistake cost them their lives.

[feytality]

[ putting her hand on one of his well defined and lovingly drawn buff arms

[ waiting for him to talk more about it if he wants ]

[ercnerd]

[Cease.

It's not an easy memory to put into words, so his thought shares the image burned into his mind as he delays answering. The glimpse Maya gets is from Sieghart's point of view and brief: against the backdrop of a ruins in flames, countless maimed bodies lie scattered in various stages of burning with their blood staining the floor a dark red.

The vision fades almost as quickly as it appeared. Sieghart finds his voice then, though he looks straight ahead and not at Maya.]

I only survived, because I wasn't there.

[feytality]

[ ... ah. well, sieg gets something in return: this image ]

(No wonder he didn't want to talk about it...)

Who.... could have done something so horrible...?