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1 - Alhambra, out-of-the-way room
[During the attack on Alhambra, Kagura's concern was, primarily, with the Graveyard personnel. Mute as she is, she managed to get people to pack up and safeguard everything important and evacuate in time for the damages to the base and their labs to have minimal effect on Graveyard material.
The problem is that among the damaged areas was Kagura's room. Which means she no longer has a locked place to hole in.
So at one point, if you're wandering around the most remote areas of the base, you might hear a male voice shouting. Closer inspection reveals Kagura in front of a screen, being absolutely ripped a new one by one of her superiors. The words "against intent of orders" "risk" "insubordination" "liability" "we can have you scrapped" "never fly again" and so on are used a great many times, while the fairy simply stands there and takes it. Not like she can defend herself, she can't even talk. So she's standing at attention with a fixed frown - so fixed, in fact, it's kind of disquieting. In the end, the commander signs off, and Kagura relaxes, floating down to a table with a thoughtful expression.
She makes some tiny scratches on a piece of paper with a mechanical pencil's small lead bar. It looks like some kind of diagram - it's very, very little, since Kagura has small handwriting even for her size, but there seem to be initials, relation arrows, and X marks on some. And she's so absorbed that she hasn't even noticed you.]
2 - Gym, late at night
[Late at night, if you go near the gym, you might notice a light turned on. Going in makes it clear nobody is using it, though...
...until you decide to look on one of the tables. Kagura is on it there, using bottlecaps as weights, surrounded by open handbooks on muscular rehabilitation. The effort has opened a few of her old wounds, but the fairy is too focused on keeping going despite the pain to care about the little drops of blood dripping on the paper.
She does notice someone coming in, though, which makes her drop the weights with a startle and turn around to look at you accusingly. Is there no bloody privacy in this place, seriously.]
[During the attack on Alhambra, Kagura's concern was, primarily, with the Graveyard personnel. Mute as she is, she managed to get people to pack up and safeguard everything important and evacuate in time for the damages to the base and their labs to have minimal effect on Graveyard material.
The problem is that among the damaged areas was Kagura's room. Which means she no longer has a locked place to hole in.
So at one point, if you're wandering around the most remote areas of the base, you might hear a male voice shouting. Closer inspection reveals Kagura in front of a screen, being absolutely ripped a new one by one of her superiors. The words "against intent of orders" "risk" "insubordination" "liability" "we can have you scrapped" "never fly again" and so on are used a great many times, while the fairy simply stands there and takes it. Not like she can defend herself, she can't even talk. So she's standing at attention with a fixed frown - so fixed, in fact, it's kind of disquieting. In the end, the commander signs off, and Kagura relaxes, floating down to a table with a thoughtful expression.
She makes some tiny scratches on a piece of paper with a mechanical pencil's small lead bar. It looks like some kind of diagram - it's very, very little, since Kagura has small handwriting even for her size, but there seem to be initials, relation arrows, and X marks on some. And she's so absorbed that she hasn't even noticed you.]
2 - Gym, late at night
[Late at night, if you go near the gym, you might notice a light turned on. Going in makes it clear nobody is using it, though...
...until you decide to look on one of the tables. Kagura is on it there, using bottlecaps as weights, surrounded by open handbooks on muscular rehabilitation. The effort has opened a few of her old wounds, but the fairy is too focused on keeping going despite the pain to care about the little drops of blood dripping on the paper.
She does notice someone coming in, though, which makes her drop the weights with a startle and turn around to look at you accusingly. Is there no bloody privacy in this place, seriously.]
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[Setsuko raises her hands apologetically. But then she notices something - and takes a few steps forward, looking closer just to be sure.]
Is that blood? You are hurting yourself!
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[Locked door or not, but Ren knocks anyway. And then immediately barges in.]
I just happened to overhear a little bit of your conversation.
You don't deserve this kind of treatment. No one does.
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Then she looks at Setsuko with an interrogant look. Yeah, Kagura can about guess why you can't sleep.]
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[When Ren talks about that, though, the little fairy simply shrugs (which she probably wouldn't do if she realized how silly and cute she looks when she does that. It's impossible to shrug dignifiedly when you look like Kagura). She then takes her little pencil lead and writes on a nearby piece of paper. She's brief, because writing big enough for Ren to see makes it slow. The words are:]
expected
learn interesting things
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Expected? Maybe, but it doesn't make it right.
What interesting things do you mean?
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[Setsuko sees what Kagura is doing and quickly uses the excuse to change the conversation and move away - only to return quickly with some contents of a nearby first aid kit.]
At least use medical gauze, Major.
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1+ commands compromised
Cardinal mission = success => traitor = failed
who plots with who?
who is angry/worried/scared? [Kagura underlines "worried" twice] suspicious?
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First finger. She touches the gauze and makes a gesture as if she was going to try to tear it into small strips, without success. Oh, right. Kagura is not actually strong enough to break medical bandages. That's probably why she went for tissues.
Second finger. She makes a very clear "yeah, not buying that, settle down" gesture and points at Setsuko to keep what she was saying. Trying to sneak a topic change on someone like Kagura, no matter how exhausted, is not going to be that easy.]
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Here.
Umm.
[Awkward silence seems to prevail, but finally Setsuko's need to get it off her chest wins over.]
Major, do you know Toby... lt Watson used to write online under the nick "Glory Star"? That's how I found him. After the... the thing with Paradigm City.
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[Looking sheepish, Ren backs off a little.]
It's hard to find someone around Unity Group who wasn't worried or scared, or angry during the last few weeks. These are natural human reactions, so unless someone keeps acting like that all the time...
Aha.
Are you saying Loni Gavin and his friends were actually a part of some kind of plot?
[And now Ren gives Kagura an expectant look, like someone who tries to guess an answer to a puzzle and waits to see if it's the correct one.]
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After a sigh, she finds something to scratch with, so she can at least try to explain why that can't work. Once she finds it, she begins doing some schematic pictures]
(Drawing of a woman glowing, probably Peola) = (Drawing of a battery)
(Drawing of a mistletoe) [Here, Kagura points at herself. She means herself, here] = (picture of the sun)
(Drawing of a mistletoe broken in half) [Here Kagura points at herself again] + ENERGY USE = (drawing of an explosion)
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Then she frowns deeply and makes an "again?" gesture. Is a Glory Star writing again?]
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no. graveyard command is compromised. someone did not want Cardinal Shaft operation. probably had plans. I ruined them. i am trying to find who is traitor.
venczel is different matter. gavin uncle possibly related? yes. but only possibly.
separate conspiracies more likely.
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Yes he is. Glory Star is back, or at least someone who acts the same way as him.
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But, what kind of plans would anyone have related to the Cardinal Shaft? The PRAYERs weren't exactly something humans can use or work with... to my understanding at least.
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TRAP
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[Setsuko reaches out, trying to stop Kagura as soon as she's done with the second letter. No need to suffer for the sake of drama.]
It's too convenient, isn't it? And we... both know what happened to Toby. He's gone, and now someone is pretending to be him.
No, not just someone.
[Setsuko strongly suspects the identity of the troll...]
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PRAYER tech valuable. SEAL field. Mistletoes. SOL drives. Xanthez sabers. All PRAYER tech. [Basically everything Graveyard operatives use are cobbled together versions of legitimate PRAYER technology]
Cardinal Shaft = central control
Control PRAYERs => Free access to PRAYER tech + army
understanding PRAYER => dimension advantage => power bid?
Dangerous.
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DOWEN
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Only a really reckless and short-sighted person would attempt that. Are there people like that in the Graveyard?
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I think I understand why you feel the way you do a little better now.
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The Chimera know where to find him actually. The thing is though... if I go see Glory Star, he'll know it and expect me.
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also
[Kagura breathes. How to explain this without taking three paragraphs - her arm is just not going to hold for three paragraphs more, right now]
killing PRAYER = impossible
Graveyard succeeded = do impossible
people who do the impossible, usually ambitious
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graveyard bad reputation. sketchy past. necessary. not understood so.
resentment. alienation.
combination feeling: fuck the world.