maybe there's nothing

[yougotthatwrong]

Characters: Makoto Naegi and OPEN
Setting: Dorm Floors
Format: bracketspam!
Summary: He's tired, he just wanted to sleep.
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, possible death.

[Spring // Everywhere]
[Maizono-san left.

Again.

To him, this chilling rain fit his current mood all too well as he just stood there in the hallways, trudging through silently as he did nothing of sorts to even protect himself. In fact, he was too tired that the only thing he could do was to walk on and try to get his bearings together. February and March at this point, could go to hell for all he care- but that'd be too strong a word for him, hell.

But it's really fitting, since this tower could be comparable to that.

His thoughts were interrupted as he collapsed on a heap, exhaustion, hunger and the cold finally getting to him as he just lied there on the ground, looking as if he's about to die.]

Comments

[yougotthatwrong]

...I guess so.

[He didn't slump back down, but rather, he just leaned on it as a support as he said those words.]

It's easy to give up, but...

[...It's harder to stand up and keep going for the others.

The words he wanted to say couldn't exactly come up to his throat from his heart, as if he's denying it.]

But...

I don't think I have the heart to see my friends disappear just like that.

[springserpent]

Things worrrth fighting for are hardly ever easy or fair, but you can't lose face, especially not now that you've become the only hope for your frriends.

[She takes up a spot next to Makoto on the wall, quiet for a moment as she seems to consider her words.]

It's lonely without them, yeah. And I won't even prrretend to imagine I know how it feels to watch a comrade vanish right from underneath my whiskers, but if you can't stand for yourself, stand for them. Use the weight of their sacrifice to keep on going but never say that you can't. It's your responsibility to live in their stead until we can find a way out of this mess, but you can't break now - otherwise there will be no change.

[yougotthatwrong]

[...'To live in their stead'.

Those words were the one that hit him the most as he grew quiet at that. It took him a few seconds to recover from it, and a few more before he even spoke again.]

We never met before, so why are you caring so much?

[About a stranger who is just down in the dump right now.]

N-not that I mind it, really.

[springserpent]

Pfh, please. Care? Don't push your luck.

[Mihli cracks an eye open to glance over at Makoto]

You were clogging up the hall. I almost tripped and busted my nose. Had to do something otherrrwise you'd have just kept laying there face first in the water like some sort of fish.

[Despite her words she's smirking rather genuinely. It's an honest and friendly expression that belies her harsh and apathetic words.]

Everyone could use a hand now and then. We can't all be at the top of our game 24/7, that's just not how life worrrrks, so I figured I'd lend you one of mine *shrug* So long as we're all here no one's really alone, right?

[yougotthatwrong]

...Yeah, you're right.

[There's just a small smile as he said it. Really, the gesture is appreciated by him; and while he thought it'd be better if she did it to her friends, the fact that she's willing to do it to him...

Well, at least it gave him hope.]

I'm... Makoto Naegi. And you are?

[springserpent]

Mihli Aliapoh.

[Rain's everywhere at this point, so she'll just be resting her arms behind her head and kicking one leg up on over the other. May as well make the best of it while she can.]

Nice to meet you, kid. *tailswish~*

[yougotthatwrong]

Ah, it's nice to meet you too, Aliapoh-san.

[Never mind the weird suffix he just gave to your last name.]

[springserpent]

"San"?

[Blink. Alright now she's confused. And why just call her by her last name? How odd...]

[yougotthatwrong]

O-oh, it's a custom from my country to call an acquaintance with their last name and that as a suffix.

[yeap.]