[IC Inbox -- Snowblind]

[heavensreader]

Is it worki - oh. Ahem. This is Kesara Freamon. Please leave your message here and I will call back on you as soon as I can.







Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-

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[rattlingthestars]

We took the key.

[ Jim's thinking isn't that far off from her's. If this is the last thing the two of them do in Norfinbury - the last thing the two of them do at all - then he and Zell are going to make it count. ]

We're going back to the toy store to try it. Whatever they died for... someone was working hard to protect it. It's important, it wasn't for nothing.

[ They didn't freeze to death, or get caught by a random monster. They died doing something that mattered. ]

[heavensreader]

[Kesara knows these words. Weren't for nothing. She thinks they ought to comfort her rather more than they do. Now she's resolved to help Jim see that comfort, though, so she decides not to think of that. If that is the best story, then that is what she'll tell.]

That's just what Kain would've said - I know it. You know it even better than me. Even if one man dies, the Game continues, it's won as long as the work is done. You're brave and Zell is brave. You'll finish the work.

[rattlingthestars]

I know.

[ This isn't exactly how he expected this conversation to go. Jim's had more time to deal with it, he thought he'd have to find something comforting to say to her. The surprise doesn't register over the strength of his other emotions but later he'll appreciate it. ]

Thanks, Kesara.