Post -Trial

[dhaosu]

[ At some point, since Miata is likely nearby the chapel, he will be returning, perhaps later when all have finished their own conferences or leaving. ]

... Miata, are you present?

[ He does not know if this will turn out well. He is still crap at social interaction, but perhaps something can come from it. ]

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[vicedirector]

[ He finds her sitting in one of the front row pews with her eyes closed. She looks like she's sleeping, at first, but cracks a single eye open and answers: ]

Hmmm?

[dhaosu]

[ ...

Let's be honest. He still had no idea where to begin this. So here it is. ]

...I had a few questions. I wonder how long it is you will be forced to play this game of theirs. They did not give you any indication, did they?

[vicedirector]

Until seven people are left.

[ She opens her other eye, gazing at him curiously. ]

[dhaosu]

[ He thinks about what the others said earlier. He doesn't think there's a way around it, but he decides he'll ask anyway. ]

...Are our so-called kidnappers able to view every single inch of this place without even so much as stepping into a building?

[vicedirector]

That's pretty obvious by now, so I think I can confirm that.

Yeah, they can.

[dhaosu]

...After the seven people are left, what will happen to you? Will they truly let you go free?

[vicedirector]

I don't know. Maybe, maybe not.

[dhaosu]

[ A silence befell him at those words momentarily. He had assumed she had had a leg up on that front somewhere. There was the whole 'smoking gun' held to her forehead, so he thought they could also not honor that if they so wished at the end. ]

...Then if they cannot be expected to guarantee that, then surely there would be no real meaning in working with them as they can simply go back on their word if they wished?

[ Unless she hoped to sabotage them in secret, but he doesn't know how that would be possible as of yet, considering... ]