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::You can visit Asuka while she was in the hospital having, you know, broken many bones from that whole mess with Seku with her being a centaur lady with a whip.
She's in a hospital dress, reading a book. It's apparently an analysis of The Snow Queen.
Feel free to give condolences or ask questions.::
She's in a hospital dress, reading a book. It's apparently an analysis of The Snow Queen.
Feel free to give condolences or ask questions.::
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Date: 2022-05-26 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-26 07:37 am (UTC)[Writing the notes down diligently. As the tablet record us, nodding.]
Please define 'for the most part' if you could for me, Mrs. Yuuki. Were there people in the immediate vicinity before you picked up the crystal? Anyone that stuck out?
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Date: 2022-05-26 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-26 07:52 am (UTC)[Scritch scritch scratch on the memo pad.] Just doing my due diligence, Mrs. Yuuki. Anything small could be a clue to who did this to you, you understand.
Let's move on. Can you describe what happened immediately upon and shortly after you picked up the crystal? Describe the moment of transformation for me.
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Date: 2022-05-27 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-28 07:07 am (UTC)[He's continuing to mark down notes. So far there's nothing here he wasn't really expecting.]
...And I'd like to know about this dream, if there are any particulars you remember.
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Date: 2022-05-28 07:59 am (UTC)And it was a state *like* a dream. I'm vaguely aware of what I did while transformed. The transformation was the dream. The dream was the transformation.
It's best to explain that it was a near religious experience for me, and circumstances in my life have made me bitterly agnostic and suspicious of religion. ... And yet...
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:03 am (UTC)While it would have been before my time at the Academy, we do have historical notes about the... 'Society of Light' incident on file at OOPARTS, for completion's sake, yes.
Are you saying that this... 'rapturous experience' was not just something that overrode those feelings but then compelled you to open a... path...?
Just so I'm understanding things here, Mrs. Yuuki.
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:05 am (UTC)...I felt blessed? sanctified? holy? Like a feeling of ecstacy of being chosen to do something or being asked and trusted. And like I had a Purpose with a capital P.
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:08 am (UTC)[He's leaning forward a bit. He's still mostly focusing on the notes, but there's a feeling like he's close to -something-.]
...And could you say what this purpose was, Mrs. Yuuki? What you had been... chosen to do? While you were transformed, I mean.
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-28 08:24 am (UTC)[He's closer now, he can feel it.]
...I'm going to ask you a question, Mrs. Yuuki, and you are within your right not to answer, as you well know.
Do the words 'Yellow Sign' or 'Silver Key' strike you with any familiarity?
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:32 am (UTC)Yes. An artifact in "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers, and a key to the ultimate gate, in a collection of stories concerning Randolph Carter, by H.P. Lovecraft.
They're both classic gothic horror writers. Well, Chambers was more of a romance writer, but the first four or five tales of "The King in Yellow" are rather... imprinting to say the least.
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:37 am (UTC)Out of curiosity, Mrs. Yuuki, does that concept - a key to the ultimate gate - seem to resonate with what you were... feeling, when you were transformed? Your 'purpose'?
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:40 am (UTC)::Blinks.::
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:43 am (UTC)...Question respectfully rescinded.
[Lets out a quiet 'tch' as he closes his notebook, stowing it in his jacket.]
...I believe that's all I needed, Mrs. Yuuki, unless you have any further comments you'd like to add for both your record and mine.
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Date: 2022-05-28 08:55 am (UTC)I think you have a conclusion you've already decided on. And you're just looking for something to prove your biases and priors. And are expecting me to confirm it.
I've told you the general feeling I had, but it's hard to explain feelings and emotions, or 'vibes' as my students put it, into words. And all I had was 'vibes'.
But I think you're running about the logic here a bit backwards?
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Date: 2022-05-28 09:09 am (UTC)And then a very tired sigh.]
Right, yes, I suppose that's worth checking my own logic, so I'm not just trying to confirm my own biases.
I will... take your criticism to heart, Mrs. Yuuki. Thank you.
If there's nothing else. I'll be taking my leave.
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Date: 2022-05-28 09:11 am (UTC)Just that you look very very... there's a word.
Haunted. I think?
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Date: 2022-05-28 09:25 am (UTC)I suppose, in some ways, Mrs. Yuuki, I am. If we're being honest.
But... that's not related to the case at hand.
Though I appreciate the concern.
...If you don't have any further commentary on the case, I suggest we end our meeting - as much as I would like to explain myself, I do not believe my right to question you gives me a right to make you bear the burden of my own thoughts.
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Date: 2022-05-28 09:43 am (UTC)::Slides down a bit.::
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Date: 2022-05-28 10:06 am (UTC)If we have any more questions, we'll be in touch.
[Collects his tablet, stops the recording, and exeunts, stage right.]