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Rem Tokimiya ([personal profile] vermilloci) wrote 2024-03-09 06:20 pm (UTC)

[ Shelter, a warm meal, and sleep: three things she didn't know how desperately she needed until he offered them. This entire month, she's been exhausting herself between trying to help those afflicted by the sleeping curse, trekking up and down the volcano nearly daily, and searching for the slaver-corsair. It's difficult not to feel as though she's failed in multiple ways these past weeks. And now...

Now she struggles with giving up her search for an artifact she can instead of the Altocrystarium. Using the artifact to become stronger aside, failing in that regard means she forfeits her life, and when it's over, it'll be as if she's never existed. As a soldier, she's always thought she'd been prepared to perish on the battlefield. It seems she's grossly overestimated herself.

But as she wakes, she tries to draw strength from her and Cid's conversation the night before. It's initially a heavy, foggy blur, but as she rises from her cot, both his words and his embrace slowly return to the forefront of her mind, helping to ground her.


She knocks before entering his office, waits for permission, and then shuts the door behind her. Rem releases the handle, resting her back against the sturdy wooden frame, eyes wandering around the room, noting whatever keepsakes or tomes decorate the chamber, before her focus goes to him.

Rem finds herself relaxing, despite everything, recalling what he'd said the night before. Doing what one can with the time they have left-... It's not as if she isn't incapable. If she can become a cadet for the Dominion and fight alongside Class Zero, then, surely, she can die with dignity. ]


Good morning. [ A pause as she looks down, lacing her fingers together. ] You... really went above and beyond. Thank you.

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