corrinesbell | 25. Expectations

I hope everyone's doing okay. If this is like all the other 'experiments,' we should be out of danger soon. ...As out of danger as we ever are, anyway. It's a little worrying that the hunter hasn't shown ~~him~~ itself much lately...but I guess we should probably be thankful for that, huh?

Caesar? Lute? You guys doing okay? How about you, Al? I haven't seen you in a while.

...I...I didn't know it'd be this bad. Maybe I never considered anyone actually dying on our journey, either. ...Even though some of us came pretty close sometimes. Really close. But seeing...with Colette gone, and seeing...them, this way... And it doesn't help that I'm next to useless because of the Malnosso, either.

...That's a lie, isn't it? It isn't because of them, not entirely. It's got to be partially my fault, too. ...Damn it, I thought I was supposed to be able to face this! Didn't I learn that already? That there's no point in constantly being scared of the past? But it's not making any difference...

Like I said, anytime you're...not occupied, and once it's safe to go outside again, I'll gladly...talk about it. If you still think it'd be useful, anyway.

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Sometimes, I probably deserve to be yelled at. ...Actually, yeah, I know I do.

Don't we all?

An' hey, I wasn't yellin' at you 'cause I thought you deserved it. I wanted you to keep talkin' to me.

Yeah, but I probably deserved it all the same.

What makes you think that? 's not like you to be down on yourself.

This is what happens when I let myself think, I guess.

Ahh... I know how that feels. You get to thinkin' about things you've done, mistakes you've made, and it starts to crush you.

If it helps, Sheena, I think you're great. You're strong, an' you call things as they are. Everyone screws up now and then.

...It's really nice of you to say that.

And yeah. Mistakes. ...If I ever say anything good about this place, it's that at least here no one knows all the stuff I've done.

It's the truth. I believe it with all my heart.

Yeah, I'll echo that... I think we've all got stuff we wanna forget, an' here... well, meetin' new people, they don't hafta know what went wrong before. I did a lotta stupid stuff, for sure, an' I'm just as glad to put it behind me.

...Yeah.

I never did finish, did I? I live in a village called Mizuho. It's a ninja village.

Ninjas, huh? Heard Kanda talkin' about those once... he comes from Japan, guess there're ninjas there too. I gotta admit I don't know much about 'em, though...

What was your village like?

...Hidden, for the most part. ...Stuff happened and we're not viewed very well by the rest of the world, so we keep to ourselves.

Oh. That's... I'm sorry. Well, hey, you've got a lotta friends an' people who care for you here, right? Whatever happened at home doesn't count against you.

If it helps any, I get weird looks sometimes if I go to the wrong places wearin' my uniform... lotta people don't like the Church much, an' the cross on my badge doesn't really help the situation.

Yeah, I get recognized for what I wear, too. ...It stinks, doesn't it?

Yeah... 'specially when people judge you for it without even knowin' who you are or what you do.

Given the choice, though... would you wear somethin' else?

Not unless I was forced.

See? Me neither. As long as you're proud of what you are, the rest of the world can go walk off a cliff.

An' you should be proud of who you are! I've never met anyone quite like you.

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