It's a rather quaint town when you get down to it. At least, that's what the Sheriff would argue. Warm and dry in the mornings and afternoons with a brisk coolness in the evenings. The perfect type of weather to just sit out on your rocking chair and observe the comings and goings.
... Of course, there's not much in the way of comings and goings when there aren't any actual people here to watch. Nevertheless, don't let that get you down! The town is your oyster and those roosters won't stop crowing until everyone's out of bed. Up and at 'em, rise and shine, it's time to make the day yours!
After all, there's nothing wrong with the town today and you might just want to savor it while it lasts.
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I got your letter. It's not quite the same as the vice versa, but I did. I had to throw out another draft of this since I wrote it before you wrote that, though. Of course I put a lot of faith in you - you don't usually let me down, idiot.
I'm going to try to keep from being censored, but at least part of that is random so I can't promise anything. I'm sorry, still. This would absolutely suck from the opposite side, with you telling me things and not being able to hear them. I'm going to try to reply to your message in order, by the way, but I may deviate at least a little. I'll try to hit your main points at least, even if you've forgotten them by now.
I'll pass on your messages. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. I think that became fairly obvious fairly quickly, however.
So you finally caught on to what story I tried to tell you, but you didn't get why? Sometimes I could strangle you, Percy Jackson. So much of that was to prove to you I am who I say I am, ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. As galling as it is to admit, I can't really help you in the way I want to. I can't be the brains here when I can't get the things I want to get across. I will always try for you, but so mch of it doesn't get through.
You already know this, all of you, so maybe this part will: it was Russell. Don't worry about it. I haven't really spoken to him but it wasn't really personal. █████████████████████████████ I suppose that woldn't be settling for you either. But it wasn't your fault.
New Rome is still the plan.
Did you really eat an entire fruit salad? I'm impressed. Maybe you'll eat a vegetable next week.
I could kiss you for the information, but I can't, so just keep trying your hardest to learn everything you can. There's still a lot you don't know. I still think we're the best couple, just so you know. And I wanted you to eat healthy because you're a moron.
Wouldn't you have asked for a way to keep an eye on me?
Telling me your plans are getting better every day is a blatant lie. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, much as it kills me to admit it.
I love you, too. I want to see you again.
-Annabeth
PS. Cummings. Nice. I don't really have poetry books here to return the favor, so how about a haiku? Those are easy enough.
I haven't told you Lately at the very least You still drool, asleep.
There is little I can say that will explain myself, so I will not bother wasting my words.
When I told you to give up, it was because of this. You are a good man with an inclusive heart. For that reason, it will be broken again and again. I suspect you have some idea of what I mean now, even if you didn't before. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
You will die a shell of yourself. That is not what I wanted, even if it appears that I had a hand in it. Though I did once, I no longer believe in your ability to win this game.
I hope I am wrong.
Be well,
Chane Laforet
[ The last two words, her birth name, are signed with an artistic flourish that's clear habit. ]
HANNIBAL
Je suis crevé ███████████, mais j'ai gardé vos secrets. J'espère tu es gardé le mien.
Est-ce que tu souviens ce m'as demandé? ███████████████████
Veuillez agréer, Docteur Lecter, l'expression de ma considération distinguée,
Chane Laforet.
[ It seems she never got out of the habit of signing letters with her maiden name. ]
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Translation: I am dead ███████████████, but I continue to guard your secrets. I hope you will guard mine.
Do you remember what you asked me? ██████████████
I hope you accept my distinguished greetings*,
Chane Laforet.
(*basically "sincerely".)
WILL
[ On the letter are only two words, not even signed ... but he should be able to recognise that handwriting. He's certainly seen it enough. ]
[Holy shit, scathing. Barnham can't really argue it, though; he's been breaking bit by bit, every week, every unsolved murder and every moment this game continues.
So he just sighs, folding the letter and tucking it away neatly into his pocket.
He'll keep it nearby--a reminded, both of hubris and of Chane, and of the duty he swore to her that he would not forsake, no matter how terrible things grew to be.
I didn't have time to kill you for even suspecting that I hurt Chane. Depending on my mood, I might do it the next time I see you.
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~Rail Tracer
MILLA
Hey Milla,
You're some woman, you know that? Up until now, the only other person who managed to engrave their existence in my heart was Chane, and then you come along and stab me right in it. Seriously, if I wasn't married to Chane, I'd be in love with you. Don't get the wrong idea though, I still love Chane more than anything. You've seen what happens when she's taken away from me. From this point on, the only way I could ever love someone else is if I went back in time and somehow never met Chane at all. I wouldn't like that though. She's perfect for me
Anyway I had to stop writing for a moment to kiss her, but I'm back now. I can't remember what I was saying.
Okay, I've re-read everything from the start so now we're back on track.
What I wanted to say was that you're pretty good with a sword. It's a shame we couldn't fight it out, but that really would have complicated things, so it's better this way. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Just letting you know ahead of time.
Are you really gonna name your pet Felix? That's so cool! I hope Chane and I can name a child after you. Not a firstborn, though, that one is reserved for your roommate. █████████████
~Rail Tracer
PERCY
I haven't run into your lover yet, █████████████████████████████████████████.
Let's just say that he knows exactly how painful burning flesh can feel and he'll never want to be near fire or gasoline again. He's very sorry.
I hope that makes you feel better. Live well!
~Rail Tracer
SHINNOSUKE
Hey Watson,
I'm not much of a letter guy, but I felt like writing to you. You're a real weirdo, you know that? But I don't mean that in a bad way. Actually, I don't even think you're a bad person. But seriously, have you ever cried? You're still just a kid, so you can do that.
Anyway, thanks for all those times we talked. You made my time in jail a little less boring.
Oh yeah, I guess you can't read any of this. Sorry about that. █████████████████████████████ After all, no one escapes the Rail Tracer. I could already be standing behind you.
~"Sherlock"
XION
Hey Xion,
I told Chane that you miss her and she made that cute face like she always does. I hope you miss me, too. It's nice to be thought of like that. Anyway, thanks for talking to me on Friday even though I scared you. You said some things I needed to hear.
I think you're good at that, giving others hope in a place like this. It's why they want to protect you. I think a few of them see hope in themselves if they protect your innocence, but that's their crap and not yours. Everyone makes their own choices here, don't let them make them for you, too. You have a brain and a heart, and lots of courage to boot! Like those guys from the Wizard of Oz. That's how great you are, you're one person worth three. Cool, right?
Thank you for taking care of my sword. I'm not really in a mood to draw, sadly. I guess that sort of inspiration is fickle. I hope you aren't lonely? Thank you for sending out Yuna's bookmarks for her. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
If you were here, and we could try out different food together. ███████████████████████ Could we see eachother again? Could you come to see me? That's probably quite selfish. But I'd rather be honest in a letter for now.
Whatever you do that you'd go after without fear of what may happen, I'd like to encourage it. You are a strong person.
XION
I'm running out of people to write to, so you'll get a genuine letter from me. I feel like everyone who's still in town is dealing with a lot of painful feelings. Have you changed a lot since I last saw you? You told me that my family would be sad if I died, even if it was for them. I hope that thoughtful spirit hasn't been marred from everything. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
???
Even if you probably don't like me writing to you, you wrote back! I'm surprised. You're fine. You're doing fine.
█████████████████████████████████████████ I can't even apologize, or ask your forgiveness for it. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Being here for so long gives me a lot of time to think. If I weren't picked as a Bandit, I wouldn't live long, I'm sure. But then, I wouldn't have played. I don't need this reward I was promised. I wouldn't want to lose Imanotsurugi or Hizamaru in my life, but if I did, that's something I should just bear with, keeping up a smile until I could see them again.
I spent lots and lots of time thinking about what to say in this letter, but it's okay! ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Thanks for nothing!
I really hope you die soon, so this can really be less boring around here. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ So don't screw it up!
he's mildly surprised to get something "back," although he can't be sure that it's really her (yet again.) Still, same as last time, he flips her letter over and writes a response on the back before putting it in her mailbox. ]
1. Don't call me that.
2. Don't hope for my death, you idiot.
3. It's obvious that you're not allowed to say anything about the game. Tell me how you're communicating with me if you're supposedly dead instead.
It's like I told Xion--█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I know that dying is the last thing any of us wanted to do, ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
As for Xion, all you can do is stand by her side. She's going to need friends to make it through this, and even if you don't think you've done a good job, you're still there. █████████████████████████████████████
Knowing you, you're trying to hold the town together, which is great. Also knowing you, you're trying to hold yourself together, which is probably harder without your favorite lady instructor there to dispense wisdom and motivation and beer and... stuff.
But! ██████████████████████████, apart from the whole dying in your chest thing. But thanks for volunteering for that, seriously. Felix or Rail Tracer or Chane's husband thought it was super romantic-- HA you just sputtered, right??
Anyway, hopefully you don't need me to tell you this, but make sure you sleep. Drink a beer every so often for me. Pet your dog, I hear that's therapeutic. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Speaking of Russell, though-- he had some things he wanted to say to you, but he also wanted my help so we're sharing a letter. Here he is.
[ Russell's part begins with a scribbled out 'I'm sorry'! Who wants to bet Sara told him to cut saying that shit. ]
Thank you for listening to me on Thursday night, Mr. Barnham... You don't have to blame yourself for what happened because I'm happy you decided to support me anyway.
Uhm
I never written a letter to anyone so I don't know what to really say... You've been seeming really sad lately, so please take care of yourself. There are other people... Other than Ms. Sara and I that really like you and need you too, so seeing you sad makes us sad too and I know you're a strong man... So -- like you told me on the first day we met "keep your head up high, and have hope."
I was afraid to die and Ms. Sara told me that means I'm learning how to value myself . . . . . That's a good thing, right?
[ At the bottom of the letter, in crayon, Russell drew a picture of Constantine!!! He looks happy! Yes, it definitely looks like a 14 year old drew it, there's an arrow pointing to Constantine and it also says "I'm still kind of afraid of dogs... But can I try petting him if I ever get the chance?" ]
MILLA
Milla,
When you said 'look after Yuna', I didn't think that meant 'get a two-hour-long lesson on flowers' because I made the mistake on saying something about her bookmarks. I now know way too much about really dark roses and five hundred (or five I GUESS) colors of carnations judging you for life choices and nasty
sorry, nasturshums? Nastershuns? Whatever, I'm sure she gave you the flower lesson too and you can pronounce the damned things a hell of a lot better than I can. Our flowers back home are simple things like lino flowers; they were starting to bloom again before I got dragged here, but don't tell Yuna I really don't know what they represent.
Don't worry--█████████████████████. You stay strong on your end, too. And make sure to have a drink for me.
Cheers,
Sara Valestein.
NOCTIS
You should really shave or your facial hair might stab Ash if he tries to make out with you again.
Then again, that might be what you're going for, and in that case, an extra layer of defense couldn't hurt.
That aside, no matter what, believe in your friends. Which is cheesy, I know, but I've come to learn it's the one lesson that hasn't let me down yet and I thought I should probably end this letter with SOME teacherly advice.
Besides the first bit. ███████████████████
Fight on!
Sara Valestein.
PAPIKA
Hey, Papika! I really hope you haven't had to punch Shinnosuke multiple times this week, but if you have...
I'm sorry, I DID say it was a tall order. Do your best and if punching him doesn't work, just sing about friendship or something at him. That'll probably do the trick just as well.
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Sara Valestein.
PERCY
Percy,
Did you put a sandwich on my grave yet? I just now figured it'd be kind of a waste so you can go ahead and give it to your beautiful lady.
Your dog, I mean.
██████████████████. Keep your head up and don't go two to three days without sleeping or I swear I'll find a way to kick your ass from here. You won't like that, trust me. And I'll tell your girlfriend, too. Sleep! Properly!!
[This letter he reads multiple times, and then he tucks it away in his breast pocket. It might be a little cheesy, but he feels as though this letter would best be kept close to the heart.
And then he sighs gently and moves away from the letters.
Writing back seems... wrong, somehow. It seems wrong when he hasn't been able to do a damn thing to stop more people from dying at all.
So until that happens, and until his duty is done, he won't write anything at all.]
When I said that I fell asleep near the baths by accident, that was a lie. In truth, I stayed there on purpose, hoping that someone would see me so that they would back up my alibi. That someone was you, and though you said what you believed to be true, my dishonesty forced you to support a liar.
Worse than that, you even comforted me when I was overcome by my own guilt. I might even have confessed if not for you... Mister Auditore might still be alive, if so. I used you not once but twice.
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I would like to help you, no matter how little it is I can do from this side.
If this is acceptable, and if you do not mind if I write to you again, please let me know.
I'd still like to visit Labyrinthia someday.
Seizaburo Kamiya
HANNIBAL
Sensei,
I hope you're doing well out there. I'm also doing well, where I am.
████████████████████████████████████
(That was a joke. I'm aware that such a thing would normally be impossible, ███████████████████████████████████████████████.)
Nevertheless, thank you for the time you spent trying to help me. There's no denying that you saved my life, and you've saved many others, as well. I'm sorry that my own stupidity ended up getting me killed despite what you did to save me before, but perhaps this was how things were meant to be. I've been told for years that my recklessness will be the death of me, after all - those who told me so here were hardly the first.
Sometimes there is no fighting fate, no matter how hard we struggle against it.
...that being said, you are a man of many talents, some of which are known only to yourself (and to your soulmate, I'm sure. Say hello to him for me!). █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Thank you for the work that you did, the encouragement you gave me, and the things that you did not say although you could have. I'll write to you again next week, if you would like that.
富永 セイ
JASON
Mister Jason,
There's a lot that I could say about the place where I am now, but It would probably be censored. It isn't so bad, though. ████████████████████████
It's probably Obvious by now that I can't say that I'm sorry for what I did, nor can I say that I wouldn't do it again. After all, I got exactly what I wanted out of it. Is that callous of me to say? It would probably be more callous to say that having spoken with Mister Keyes now that he has decided to act fully as himself, I Regret it even less, but it's the truth. I think all of you are safer without him on your side.
I am sorry for not being honest with you, though. I should not have let you comfort me when I was only crying because of guilt that I deserved to feel. ████████████████████████████████████████████████
██████████████████████████████████████████████ Please look after Miss Xion, Mister Percy, and Shinnosuke for me, and do a better job of doing what's best for them than I could have. There may be hard choices that you must make, but you're a strong person, and I'm sure you'll do what's necessary no matter what it Entails.
I truly believe that Miss Xion, Shinnosuke, you, and Mister Percy can figure out a way to free all of us from this game. If you Receive information from us, please share what you receive with them. I hope that they will also share what they receive with you.
I and all of the others on this side will be relying on you.
Seizaburo Kamiya
PERCY + SHINNOSUKE
Mister Percy,
I'm sorry I didn't make it To our training session. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Maybe someday we'll meet again and be able to spar for real.
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I'm sure you're wondering why I wrote to you out of Everyone I could have chosen. I'll be the first to Admit that although I greatly admired both you and Miss Annabeth, we unfortunately weren't as well-acquainted as I would have hoped. The truth is, I'm still hoping that we can be friends, even if the only way we can talk now is through these letters.
And to that End, I should tell you that I believe in you. There will undoubtedly be people on this side who are trying to pass information to you. Should you receive any, I hope you will share it with Shinnosuke, Miss Xion, and Mister Jason. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I really do believe that Miss Xion, Shinnosuke, Mister Jason, and you can save us.
We'll be waiting to see all that accomplish. We trust you.
Seizaburo Kamiya
P.S. If you wouldn't mind it, I'd appreciate it if you could read the next paragraph to Shinnosuke. Please feel free to imitate me as much as you would like, up to and including giving him a little smack if he acts like a jerk. Thank you!
Shinnosuke, you're a real jerk, you know that? Calling Me a moron. ██████████████████████████████████████████████ I would hit you, If I could do that from here. I'll do what you suggested, but only if you promise to be nice and cooperate with Mister Percy, Miss Xion, and Mister Jason, Even if you get the urge to be rude. You could really stand to learn to let people in, you know? Share with them. Let them share with you. I know you don't like other people, but I think Miss Xion, you, Mister Jason, and Mister Percy could be a good team if you capitalize on every resource you have. Write to me again, please. It's nice to see your words, even if I can't hear your voice.
XION
Miss Xion,
I've been trying to write this letter since the day of the stampede, and I still don't know where to begin. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
The first thing I want to say is that I'm so very, very sorry. I didn't want to leave you. If something like that was possible to survive, I would have done everything in my power to do so. You deserve to have people who will support you wherever you are - and now the best I can do is try to support you from here.
The second thing I want to say is that... I'm sorry, again. By now, I'm sure you and EVERYONE else knows that I was a bandit. You were right that you and I both wanted the same thing, but the methods I've employed have left blood on my hands, whether I was the one to pull the trigger or not. In participating in such a thing, I feel as though I have let you down.
You have no reason to listen to a request from me after what I did and how I left you, but please, if possible, do whatever it takes to survive without bathing your own hands in blood until the very end. It would be gratifying to know that it's possible for someone to win this game without taking someone else's life.
To do this, please ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I hope that we'll see each other again someday. And when that time comes, it is my fervent hope that we can both greet each other with a smile.
[There are so many flower doodles on this letter. Even though Yuna isn't the best artist, despite her knack for arts and crafts, they're pretty well done! There's a lot of plumeria flowers in particular.]
Robin,
You can't be sorry, because it's not your fault. I have to let you know that first! Thank you for writing me a letter, I'm really happy you did! I love the flowers you drew! But you said you were sorry even though you didn't do anything wrong. I can't let you regret the choice that I made. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ That's why I won't let you apologize.
Thank you for checking the Hero Club box! I'm really sad I can't do it myself, but I'm really lucky to have you as part of the club to make up for it for me!
I know you've been working really, really hard. I'm so proud of you! It's really hard to stay this strong for this long. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Even though things are still tough, we're doing much better than we would be without you. When I think about how tough you've been and how lucky I am to have you in the Hero Club, I feel stronger, too.
Remember: if you're troubled, talk to someone! There are lots of people who want to help you. That means me, too! I'll do the best I can from here, too. You can't do it on your own, because we're all stronger together!
I'm glad you like the bookmark! I hope it's useful. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ They're really cute! The colors match a red spider lily's but they don't really look alike at all, but I think that just means you can make some really fun bouquets with them! █████████████████████████
You're doing so well. ███████████████████
I love you!
Yuna
JASON
[Yuna has drawn so many flowers in the margins of this letter and sometimes even between the paragraphs. Illustration's not her strong suit, but she knows flowers, so they look pretty good!]
You know, I was really, really happy when you agreed to join Milla and me on our sleepover. I told you, I always knew I could depend on you, but it's not like I ever would have blamed you for not wanting to put yourself in danger. I was really happy that you wanted to keep us all safe, too, and that I got to spend time with you! It was really brave of you to join us. I'm glad you did.
I'm so happy you like the bookmark! I've been thinking about how you said you'd want to see one of the bookmarks I made when we first met ever since I started pressing flowers, so I worked really hard on it. It means a lot to me that you're using it!
I know we'll see each other again! In the meantime, when I think about how nice you've been to me and how lucky I've been to have you as a friend, I feel really strong. ████████████████████████████████████████ I know I keep saying this, but I'm really happy to know you. I wish I knew some better words, but happy is all I've got.
Hero Club tenet: try not to give up. Do your best! I hope your head feels better soon. I love you!
Yuna
MILLA
[The letter is positively covered in little doodles of flowers... For all her arts and crafts skills, Yuna's not the best illustrator, but flowers are her Thing so they're very recognizable!]
Milla,
I'm really, really happy you're safe. Every time I write anyone else a letter I keep writing "happy" over and over again, but I don't know what else to say! I don't even remember how ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
You're not allowed to be mad at yourself. I'm officially taking that right away! It isn't your fault, and I'm not just saying that because of the person I am, I'm saying it because it's true. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If I regret anything ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I put you in danger. I'm still really glad you wanted to come with me, though. You've always worked really hard and tried to protect people, and nothing ever stops you or slows you down. That's exactly the kind of hero I want to be!
I think Muzét must be the luckiest girl in the world. When you see her again, will you tell her hi for me? ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If she's your sister and I'm your sister that almost makes me and her half-sisters or something like that. It would if she wanted us to be, anyway! I'm an only child, and I don't want to say it makes me lonely, since I have my Hero Club, but they're all so close to my age that it means it feels really different to have an older sister. So you're welcome for letting you into my family, but mostly, thank you for being part of mine!
████████████████████████████████████████████████████ That's just the kind of hero, sister, and person you are!
I love you a lot! Remember, you're likely to succeed if you try, so try not to give up!
Yuna
P.S. Will you do me one more small favor? ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
SHINNOSUKE
[There are a bunch of flower doodles towards the top of the letter and then it's like a quarter of the way down the page Yuna remembered that he...won't see them......so she stopped. The doodles that are there look nice though??]
Shinnosuke-kun,
Thank you for writing a letter for me! I was really happy when I got it, and I'm glad I get to write you a letter back! It's tougher not being there all the time, but that doesn't mean I'm gone, either. Even if it's something small, you've got to hold onto the things that made you a little happier. Something like feeling safe, being glad you weren't alone, or laughing about something you teased me over, however small, is still worth keeping and protecting. It's still a time where all the bad stuff in this place wasn't strong enough to keep you down, and if you hold those bright moments we got to have together in your heart, then I'm still with you, even from all the way over here. It goes both ways! Despite what happened, I can think about all those times you told me to stay positive and work hard, and I can read that you told me to be a hero from the great beyond, and I'm happy! Besides getting to write, that's the best way for me to be able to stay by your side still, and since you're really important to me, I'd still really like to, so please let me.
Hero Club tenet: if you're troubled, talk to someone! Even if you tell me not to worry, I can't really help it, because I want you to be safe and well here. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ In the meantime, I'll do my best to keep helping, even from here!
Do your best! Take care of yourself!
Love, Yuna
XION
[Yuna's drawn flowers all over the paper; in the margins, between paragraphs, sometimes between sentences?? So many doodles......]
I'm really sorry. I know I've probably worried you and let you down, but even from here, I'm doing my best to help! No matter how far apart we are, I'm with you, too, and as long as you can remember to keep me in your heart, I'll do the same. That way, we're never really separated. When I think about making you smile, or about all your hard work, or about how happy I was that you wanted to be in the Hero Club, I feel really strong! Thank you for having faith in me all this time.
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LETTERS
ANNABETH CHASE
Seaweed Brain,
I got your letter. It's not quite the same as the vice versa, but I did. I had to throw out another draft of this since I wrote it before you wrote that, though. Of course I put a lot of faith in you - you don't usually let me down, idiot.
I'm going to try to keep from being censored, but at least part of that is random so I can't promise anything. I'm sorry, still. This would absolutely suck from the opposite side, with you telling me things and not being able to hear them. I'm going to try to reply to your message in order, by the way, but I may deviate at least a little. I'll try to hit your main points at least, even if you've forgotten them by now.
I'll pass on your messages. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. I think that became fairly obvious fairly quickly, however.
So you finally caught on to what story I tried to tell you, but you didn't get why? Sometimes I could strangle you, Percy Jackson. So much of that was to prove to you I am who I say I am, ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. As galling as it is to admit, I can't really help you in the way I want to. I can't be the brains here when I can't get the things I want to get across. I will always try for you, but so mch of it doesn't get through.
You already know this, all of you, so maybe this part will: it was Russell. Don't worry about it. I haven't really spoken to him but it wasn't really personal. █████████████████████████████ I suppose that woldn't be settling for you either. But it wasn't your fault.
New Rome is still the plan.
Did you really eat an entire fruit salad? I'm impressed. Maybe you'll eat a vegetable next week.
I could kiss you for the information, but I can't, so just keep trying your hardest to learn everything you can. There's still a lot you don't know. I still think we're the best couple, just so you know. And I wanted you to eat healthy because you're a moron.
Wouldn't you have asked for a way to keep an eye on me?
Telling me your plans are getting better every day is a blatant lie. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, much as it kills me to admit it.
I love you, too. I want to see you again.
-Annabeth
PS. Cummings. Nice. I don't really have poetry books here to return the favor, so how about a haiku? Those are easy enough.
I haven't told you
Lately at the very least
You still drool, asleep.
Love you.
CHANE LAFORET
Inquisitor,
There is little I can say that will explain myself, so I will not bother wasting my words.
When I told you to give up, it was because of this. You are a good man with an inclusive heart. For that reason, it will be broken again and again. I suspect you have some idea of what I mean now, even if you didn't before. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
You will die a shell of yourself. That is not what I wanted, even if it appears that I had a hand in it. Though I did once, I no longer believe in your ability to win this game.
I hope I am wrong.
Be well,
Chane Laforet
[ The last two words, her birth name, are signed with an artistic flourish that's clear habit. ]
HANNIBAL
Je suis crevé ███████████, mais j'ai gardé vos secrets. J'espère tu es gardé le mien.
Est-ce que tu souviens ce m'as demandé? ███████████████████
Veuillez agréer, Docteur Lecter, l'expression de ma considération distinguée,
Chane Laforet.
[ It seems she never got out of the habit of signing letters with her maiden name. ]
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Translation: I am dead ███████████████, but I continue to guard your secrets. I hope you will guard mine.
Do you remember what you asked me? ██████████████
I hope you accept my distinguished greetings*,
Chane Laforet.
(*basically "sincerely".)
WILL
[ On the letter are only two words, not even signed ... but he should be able to recognise that handwriting. He's certainly seen it enough. ]
Thank you.
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So he just sighs, folding the letter and tucking it away neatly into his pocket.
He'll keep it nearby--a reminded, both of hubris and of Chane, and of the duty he swore to her that he would not forsake, no matter how terrible things grew to be.
He won't write a response, though.]
FELIX WALKEN
I didn't have time to kill you for even suspecting that I hurt Chane. Depending on my mood, I might do it the next time I see you.
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~Rail Tracer
MILLA
Hey Milla,
You're some woman, you know that? Up until now, the only other person who managed to engrave their existence in my heart was Chane, and then you come along and stab me right in it. Seriously, if I wasn't married to Chane, I'd be in love with you. Don't get the wrong idea though, I still love Chane more than anything. You've seen what happens when she's taken away from me. From this point on, the only way I could ever love someone else is if I went back in time and somehow never met Chane at all. I wouldn't like that though. She's perfect for me
Anyway I had to stop writing for a moment to kiss her, but I'm back now. I can't remember what I was saying.
Okay, I've re-read everything from the start so now we're back on track.
What I wanted to say was that you're pretty good with a sword. It's a shame we couldn't fight it out, but that really would have complicated things, so it's better this way. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Just letting you know ahead of time.
Are you really gonna name your pet Felix? That's so cool! I hope Chane and I can name a child after you. Not a firstborn, though, that one is reserved for your roommate. █████████████
~Rail Tracer
PERCY
I haven't run into your lover yet, █████████████████████████████████████████.
Let's just say that he knows exactly how painful burning flesh can feel and he'll never want to be near fire or gasoline again. He's very sorry.
I hope that makes you feel better. Live well!
~Rail Tracer
SHINNOSUKE
Hey Watson,
I'm not much of a letter guy, but I felt like writing to you. You're a real weirdo, you know that? But I don't mean that in a bad way. Actually, I don't even think you're a bad person. But seriously, have you ever cried? You're still just a kid, so you can do that.
Anyway, thanks for all those times we talked. You made my time in jail a little less boring.
Oh yeah, I guess you can't read any of this. Sorry about that. █████████████████████████████ After all, no one escapes the Rail Tracer. I could already be standing behind you.
~"Sherlock"
XION
Hey Xion,
I told Chane that you miss her and she made that cute face like she always does. I hope you miss me, too. It's nice to be thought of like that. Anyway, thanks for talking to me on Friday even though I scared you. You said some things I needed to hear.
I think you're good at that, giving others hope in a place like this. It's why they want to protect you. I think a few of them see hope in themselves if they protect your innocence, but that's their crap and not yours. Everyone makes their own choices here, don't let them make them for you, too. You have a brain and a heart, and lots of courage to boot! Like those guys from the Wizard of Oz. That's how great you are, you're one person worth three. Cool, right?
Give a "woof" to Pluto for me, too, okay?
Be strong!
~Rail Tracer
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that is to say that Ash reads this, scoffs, and then immediately deposits it into the garbage... sorry Claire. ]
HIGEKIRI
Thank you for taking care of my sword. I'm not really in a mood to draw, sadly. I guess that sort of inspiration is fickle. I hope you aren't lonely? Thank you for sending out Yuna's bookmarks for her. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
If you were here, and we could try out different food together. ███████████████████████ Could we see eachother again? Could you come to see me? That's probably quite selfish. But I'd rather be honest in a letter for now.
Whatever you do that you'd go after without fear of what may happen, I'd like to encourage it. You are a strong person.
XION
I'm running out of people to write to, so you'll get a genuine letter from me. I feel like everyone who's still in town is dealing with a lot of painful feelings. Have you changed a lot since I last saw you? You told me that my family would be sad if I died, even if it was for them. I hope that thoughtful spirit hasn't been marred from everything. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
???
Even if you probably don't like me writing to you, you wrote back! I'm surprised. You're fine. You're doing fine.
█████████████████████████████████████████ I can't even apologize, or ask your forgiveness for it. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Being here for so long gives me a lot of time to think. If I weren't picked as a Bandit, I wouldn't live long, I'm sure. But then, I wouldn't have played. I don't need this reward I was promised. I wouldn't want to lose Imanotsurugi or Hizamaru in my life, but if I did, that's something I should just bear with, keeping up a smile until I could see them again.
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NUI HARIUME
Ashie,
I spent lots and lots of time thinking about what to say in this letter, but it's okay! ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Thanks for nothing!
I really hope you die soon, so this can really be less boring around here. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ So don't screw it up!
XOXO,
Nui ♡
PS. Saw you kiss the emo kid. Totes hot.
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he's mildly surprised to get something "back," although he can't be sure that it's really her (yet again.) Still, same as last time, he flips her letter over and writes a response on the back before putting it in her mailbox. ]
1. Don't call me that.
2. Don't hope for my death, you idiot.
3. It's obvious that you're not allowed to say anything about the game. Tell me how you're communicating with me if you're supposedly dead instead.
- ASH
RIKU
Noctis,
Don't worry. ████████████████████████████████████████████ Xion knows she can trust you.
██████████████████████████████████████ I had more questions I'd wanted to ask the sheriff, but then again, I wasn't exactly expecting to die.
That's why I'm leaving it all up to you.
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It's like I told Xion--█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I know that dying is the last thing any of us wanted to do, ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
As for Xion, all you can do is stand by her side. She's going to need friends to make it through this, and even if you don't think you've done a good job, you're still there. █████████████████████████████████████
Thanks.
Riku
SARA VALESTEIN
Hey,
Knowing you, you're trying to hold the town together, which is great. Also knowing you, you're trying to hold yourself together, which is probably harder without your favorite lady instructor there to dispense wisdom and motivation and beer and... stuff.
But! ██████████████████████████, apart from the whole dying in your chest thing. But thanks for volunteering for that, seriously. Felix or Rail Tracer or Chane's husband thought it was super romantic-- HA you just sputtered, right??
Anyway, hopefully you don't need me to tell you this, but make sure you sleep. Drink a beer every so often for me. Pet your dog, I hear that's therapeutic. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Speaking of Russell, though-- he had some things he wanted to say to you, but he also wanted my help so we're sharing a letter. Here he is.
[ Russell's part begins with a scribbled out 'I'm sorry'! Who wants to bet Sara told him to cut saying that shit. ]
Thank you for listening to me on Thursday night, Mr. Barnham... You don't have to blame yourself for what happened because I'm happy you decided to support me anyway.
Uhm
I never written a letter to anyone so I don't know what to really say... You've been seeming really sad lately, so please take care of yourself. There are other people... Other than Ms. Sara and I that really like you and need you too, so seeing you sad makes us sad too and I know you're a strong man... So -- like you told me on the first day we met "keep your head up high, and have hope."
I was afraid to die and Ms. Sara told me that means I'm learning how to value myself . . . . . That's a good thing, right?
███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
[ At the bottom of the letter, in crayon, Russell drew a picture of Constantine!!! He looks happy! Yes, it definitely looks like a 14 year old drew it, there's an arrow pointing to Constantine and it also says "I'm still kind of afraid of dogs... But can I try petting him if I ever get the chance?" ]
MILLA
Milla,
When you said 'look after Yuna', I didn't think that meant 'get a two-hour-long lesson on flowers' because I made the mistake on saying something about her bookmarks. I now know way too much about really dark roses and five hundred (or five I GUESS) colors of carnations judging you for life choices and nasty
sorry, nasturshums? Nastershuns? Whatever, I'm sure she gave you the flower lesson too and you can pronounce the damned things a hell of a lot better than I can. Our flowers back home are simple things like lino flowers; they were starting to bloom again before I got dragged here, but don't tell Yuna I really don't know what they represent.
It's funny, the things you miss though...
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Don't worry--█████████████████████. You stay strong on your end, too. And make sure to have a drink for me.
Cheers,
Sara Valestein.
NOCTIS
You should really shave or your facial hair might stab Ash if he tries to make out with you again.
Then again, that might be what you're going for, and in that case, an extra layer of defense couldn't hurt.
That aside, no matter what, believe in your friends. Which is cheesy, I know, but I've come to learn it's the one lesson that hasn't let me down yet and I thought I should probably end this letter with SOME teacherly advice.
Besides the first bit. ███████████████████
Fight on!
Sara Valestein.
PAPIKA
Hey, Papika! I really hope you haven't had to punch Shinnosuke multiple times this week, but if you have...
I'm sorry, I DID say it was a tall order. Do your best and if punching him doesn't work, just sing about friendship or something at him. That'll probably do the trick just as well.
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Sara Valestein.
PERCY
Percy,
Did you put a sandwich on my grave yet? I just now figured it'd be kind of a waste so you can go ahead and give it to your beautiful lady.
Your dog, I mean.
██████████████████. Keep your head up and don't go two to three days without sleeping or I swear I'll find a way to kick your ass from here. You won't like that, trust me. And I'll tell your girlfriend, too. Sleep! Properly!!
Love,
Sara Valestein.
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And then he sighs gently and moves away from the letters.
Writing back seems... wrong, somehow. It seems wrong when he hasn't been able to do a damn thing to stop more people from dying at all.
So until that happens, and until his duty is done, he won't write anything at all.]
SEIZABURO KAMIYA
Mister Barnham,
I suppose I owe you an explanation.
When I said that I fell asleep near the baths by accident, that was a lie. In truth, I stayed there on purpose, hoping that someone would see me so that they would back up my alibi. That someone was you, and though you said what you believed to be true, my dishonesty forced you to support a liar.
Worse than that, you even comforted me when I was overcome by my own guilt. I might even have confessed if not for you... Mister Auditore might still be alive, if so. I used you not once but twice.
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I would like to help you, no matter how little it is I can do from this side.
If this is acceptable, and if you do not mind if I write to you again, please let me know.
I'd still like to visit Labyrinthia someday.
Seizaburo Kamiya
HANNIBAL
Sensei,
I hope you're doing well out there. I'm also doing well, where I am.
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(That was a joke. I'm aware that such a thing would normally be impossible, ███████████████████████████████████████████████.)
Nevertheless, thank you for the time you spent trying to help me. There's no denying that you saved my life, and you've saved many others, as well. I'm sorry that my own stupidity ended up getting me killed despite what you did to save me before, but perhaps this was how things were meant to be. I've been told for years that my recklessness will be the death of me, after all - those who told me so here were hardly the first.
Sometimes there is no fighting fate, no matter how hard we struggle against it.
...that being said, you are a man of many talents, some of which are known only to yourself (and to your soulmate, I'm sure. Say hello to him for me!). █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
Thank you for the work that you did, the encouragement you gave me, and the things that you did not say although you could have. I'll write to you again next week, if you would like that.
富永 セイ
JASON
Mister Jason,
There's a lot that I could say about the place where I am now, but It would probably be censored. It isn't so bad, though. ████████████████████████
It's probably Obvious by now that I can't say that I'm sorry for what I did, nor can I say that I wouldn't do it again. After all, I got exactly what I wanted out of it. Is that callous of me to say? It would probably be more callous to say that having spoken with Mister Keyes now that he has decided to act fully as himself, I Regret it even less, but it's the truth. I think all of you are safer without him on your side.
I am sorry for not being honest with you, though. I should not have let you comfort me when I was only crying because of guilt that I deserved to feel. ████████████████████████████████████████████████
██████████████████████████████████████████████ Please look after Miss Xion, Mister Percy, and Shinnosuke for me, and do a better job of doing what's best for them than I could have. There may be hard choices that you must make, but you're a strong person, and I'm sure you'll do what's necessary no matter what it Entails.
I truly believe that Miss Xion, Shinnosuke, you, and Mister Percy can figure out a way to free all of us from this game. If you Receive information from us, please share what you receive with them. I hope that they will also share what they receive with you.
I and all of the others on this side will be relying on you.
Seizaburo Kamiya
PERCY + SHINNOSUKE
Mister Percy,
I'm sorry I didn't make it To our training session. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Maybe someday we'll meet again and be able to spar for real.
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I'm sure you're wondering why I wrote to you out of Everyone I could have chosen. I'll be the first to Admit that although I greatly admired both you and Miss Annabeth, we unfortunately weren't as well-acquainted as I would have hoped. The truth is, I'm still hoping that we can be friends, even if the only way we can talk now is through these letters.
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Aside from that...
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And to that End, I should tell you that I believe in you. There will undoubtedly be people on this side who are trying to pass information to you. Should you receive any, I hope you will share it with Shinnosuke, Miss Xion, and Mister Jason. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I really do believe that Miss Xion, Shinnosuke, Mister Jason, and you can save us.
We'll be waiting to see all that accomplish. We trust you.
Seizaburo Kamiya
P.S.
If you wouldn't mind it, I'd appreciate it if you could read the next paragraph to Shinnosuke. Please feel free to imitate me as much as you would like, up to and including giving him a little smack if he acts like a jerk. Thank you!
Shinnosuke, you're a real jerk, you know that? Calling Me a moron. ██████████████████████████████████████████████ I would hit you, If I could do that from here. I'll do what you suggested, but only if you promise to be nice and cooperate with Mister Percy, Miss Xion, and Mister Jason, Even if you get the urge to be rude. You could really stand to learn to let people in, you know? Share with them. Let them share with you. I know you don't like other people, but I think Miss Xion, you, Mister Jason, and Mister Percy could be a good team if you capitalize on every resource you have. Write to me again, please. It's nice to see your words, even if I can't hear your voice.
XION
Miss Xion,
I've been trying to write this letter since the day of the stampede, and I still don't know where to begin. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
The first thing I want to say is that I'm so very, very sorry. I didn't want to leave you. If something like that was possible to survive, I would have done everything in my power to do so. You deserve to have people who will support you wherever you are - and now the best I can do is try to support you from here.
The second thing I want to say is that... I'm sorry, again. By now, I'm sure you and EVERYONE else knows that I was a bandit. You were right that you and I both wanted the same thing, but the methods I've employed have left blood on my hands, whether I was the one to pull the trigger or not. In participating in such a thing, I feel as though I have let you down.
You have no reason to listen to a request from me after what I did and how I left you, but please, if possible, do whatever it takes to survive without bathing your own hands in blood until the very end. It would be gratifying to know that it's possible for someone to win this game without taking someone else's life.
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I hope that we'll see each other again someday. And when that time comes, it is my fervent hope that we can both greet each other with a smile.
Seizaburo Kamiya
YUNA YUKI
[There are so many flower doodles on this letter. Even though Yuna isn't the best artist, despite her knack for arts and crafts, they're pretty well done! There's a lot of plumeria flowers in particular.]
Robin,
You can't be sorry, because it's not your fault. I have to let you know that first! Thank you for writing me a letter, I'm really happy you did! I love the flowers you drew! But you said you were sorry even though you didn't do anything wrong. I can't let you regret the choice that I made. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ That's why I won't let you apologize.
Thank you for checking the Hero Club box! I'm really sad I can't do it myself, but I'm really lucky to have you as part of the club to make up for it for me!
I know you've been working really, really hard. I'm so proud of you! It's really hard to stay this strong for this long. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Even though things are still tough, we're doing much better than we would be without you. When I think about how tough you've been and how lucky I am to have you in the Hero Club, I feel stronger, too.
Remember: if you're troubled, talk to someone! There are lots of people who want to help you. That means me, too! I'll do the best I can from here, too. You can't do it on your own, because we're all stronger together!
I'm glad you like the bookmark! I hope it's useful. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ They're really cute! The colors match a red spider lily's but they don't really look alike at all, but I think that just means you can make some really fun bouquets with them! █████████████████████████
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I love you!
Yuna
JASON
[Yuna has drawn so many flowers in the margins of this letter and sometimes even between the paragraphs. Illustration's not her strong suit, but she knows flowers, so they look pretty good!]
Jason,
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You know, I was really, really happy when you agreed to join Milla and me on our sleepover. I told you, I always knew I could depend on you, but it's not like I ever would have blamed you for not wanting to put yourself in danger. I was really happy that you wanted to keep us all safe, too, and that I got to spend time with you! It was really brave of you to join us. I'm glad you did.
I'm so happy you like the bookmark! I've been thinking about how you said you'd want to see one of the bookmarks I made when we first met ever since I started pressing flowers, so I worked really hard on it. It means a lot to me that you're using it!
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I know we'll see each other again! In the meantime, when I think about how nice you've been to me and how lucky I've been to have you as a friend, I feel really strong. ████████████████████████████████████████ I know I keep saying this, but I'm really happy to know you. I wish I knew some better words, but happy is all I've got.
Hero Club tenet: try not to give up. Do your best! I hope your head feels better soon. I love you!
Yuna
MILLA
[The letter is positively covered in little doodles of flowers... For all her arts and crafts skills, Yuna's not the best illustrator, but flowers are her Thing so they're very recognizable!]
Milla,
I'm really, really happy you're safe. Every time I write anyone else a letter I keep writing "happy" over and over again, but I don't know what else to say! I don't even remember how ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
You're not allowed to be mad at yourself. I'm officially taking that right away! It isn't your fault, and I'm not just saying that because of the person I am, I'm saying it because it's true. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If I regret anything ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ I put you in danger. I'm still really glad you wanted to come with me, though. You've always worked really hard and tried to protect people, and nothing ever stops you or slows you down. That's exactly the kind of hero I want to be!
I think Muzét must be the luckiest girl in the world. When you see her again, will you tell her hi for me? ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ If she's your sister and I'm your sister that almost makes me and her half-sisters or something like that. It would if she wanted us to be, anyway! I'm an only child, and I don't want to say it makes me lonely, since I have my Hero Club, but they're all so close to my age that it means it feels really different to have an older sister. So you're welcome for letting you into my family, but mostly, thank you for being part of mine!
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I love you a lot! Remember, you're likely to succeed if you try, so try not to give up!
Yuna
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SHINNOSUKE
[There are a bunch of flower doodles towards the top of the letter and then it's like a quarter of the way down the page Yuna remembered that he...won't see them......so she stopped. The doodles that are there look nice though??]
Shinnosuke-kun,
Thank you for writing a letter for me! I was really happy when I got it, and I'm glad I get to write you a letter back! It's tougher not being there all the time, but that doesn't mean I'm gone, either. Even if it's something small, you've got to hold onto the things that made you a little happier. Something like feeling safe, being glad you weren't alone, or laughing about something you teased me over, however small, is still worth keeping and protecting. It's still a time where all the bad stuff in this place wasn't strong enough to keep you down, and if you hold those bright moments we got to have together in your heart, then I'm still with you, even from all the way over here. It goes both ways! Despite what happened, I can think about all those times you told me to stay positive and work hard, and I can read that you told me to be a hero from the great beyond, and I'm happy! Besides getting to write, that's the best way for me to be able to stay by your side still, and since you're really important to me, I'd still really like to, so please let me.
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Hero Club tenet: if you're troubled, talk to someone! Even if you tell me not to worry, I can't really help it, because I want you to be safe and well here. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████ In the meantime, I'll do my best to keep helping, even from here!
Do your best! Take care of yourself!
Love,
Yuna
XION
[Yuna's drawn flowers all over the paper; in the margins, between paragraphs, sometimes between sentences?? So many doodles......]
Xion,
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I'm really sorry. I know I've probably worried you and let you down, but even from here, I'm doing my best to help! No matter how far apart we are, I'm with you, too, and as long as you can remember to keep me in your heart, I'll do the same. That way, we're never really separated. When I think about making you smile, or about all your hard work, or about how happy I was that you wanted to be in the Hero Club, I feel really strong! Thank you for having faith in me all this time.
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Hero Club tenet: you're likely so succeed if you try. ██████████████████████████████████████ because you always try your best! You're so amazing!
I love you!
Yuna
P.S. Please pet Pluto a lot for me and give him lots of scratches behind the ears! Tell him I'll make up for it when we see each other again.