It's time to go.
Most people are on the train by now. Settled into their cabins and among friends and loved ones. There are only three new arrivals left to board and once they do, Hal pulls a conductor's hat out from underneath the bar, tugs it on, and steps around it to the middle of the train. He opens his mouth to talk, voice filling the train.
"It's time to go. Stops happen once a day until everyone's departed and I already have your stopped listed. If you'd like to be prioritized, let me know, otherwise we'll go in order of death. Settle in and enjoy the ride. If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask, folks."
This, of course, means that those who died earliest (Manfred, Higekiri) will depart first while those who died latest (Barnham, Damian, Percy) will depart last. There's a stop for everyone, though those who want to get off together are more than welcome to. Hal pulls a notepad and pen out of his pocket later and people will notice that he goes around the train confirming stops with everyone. Whatever feeling Hal may have had to a character back in town isn't noticeable here -- he is simply a robot assigned with a job.
After that, it's all a matter of settling in and enjoying the ride. If that's possible for you, at least.
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[Sei's voice is quiet.
It's obvious that Percy has been carrying quite a burden all this time. Some of that had been obvious even before she'd died, but - she'd chalked a lot of it up to the stress of the way Annabeth had passed on.
Now, though, she knows that there was much more to it, and she's sort of kicking herself for not seeing it sooner.
She indicates a seat nearby and tilts her head to one side.]
Is it okay with you if I sit down?
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...if you really want to, sure. Pretty sure it's all wide open.
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Thank you. [She smiles faintly.] ...and not just for letting me sit down, either. For... everything.
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Seizaburo, that's really not something you should thank me for, you know? It's...[Complicated?] It's what needed to be done. We couldn't just let everyone lose after everything that happened. I just never thought it'd end up like this.
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[How to word this? Even she's not entirely sure.]
The fact that it worked out the way it did, and that we're all going home now... there are some people who wouldn't want to make the hard choices. Who would have run away from it. And we're all very lucky tat you were willing to do what needed to be done.
...after all, what needs to be done and what is done aren't always the same thing. This could have ended so much more terribly than it did.
[And it was already bad enough.]
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[Sei blinks, not really expecting that question, and scratches at her cheek as she thinks it over.]
I think... I would have tried to do the same thing as you. But although I would have tried, I'm not certain that I would have succeeded. [You know, because of the missing leg and how she's sort of biased and polarized in her opinions of people...] You had both the will and the ability to do what was necessary. What I would have done would have been nothing more than a pale imitation.
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Then...I guess I'm glad I did this. So what happens now? What are you going back to?