https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19391137/#19391140In the chaos of the evening wherein she left the Divine Mansion infirmary in a frightened and stunned state, Carmody Jefferson goes to sleep that night without checking her phone. When she awakens, she is shocked to discover a number of things, but perhaps most of all Lightning Nika's attack on Kanako Leichenburg. And therein is also an explanation that..... well, it still doesn't make much sense. But it suggests that Kanako's association with Nika, and her weird and secretive behavior, might not have been based in such terrible motivations after all. She still feels twinges of distrust and disappointment when she thinks of Kanako, but she doesn't deserve that.
Carmody has been on the end of the same kind of beating that Nika gave Kanako. Nobody deserves that.
Kanako wasn't there at her own bedside when Nika attacked her, but at least she sent flowers. It showed she cared. And Carmody finds herself still caring deeply about Kanako. The envenomed words she'd spat at her during the show, the taunts, the post-match liberties and mockery, all sat like hot lead in the pit of her stomach. Kanako having to endure all that from her, then this from Nika, was truly horrible. Maybe they'd never be friends again, and maybe she could never make this right. But that was only certain if she didn't at least try.
https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19391137/#19397943Later that morning, Carmody approaches Kanako Leichenburg's room at the Spaghetti Town General Hospital and stands timidly in the doorway.
>"Kanako? I don't blame you if you don't wanna see me. Or if you never wanna see me again. And it's within your right to tell me to fuck off right now, and I will. But I care about you. I wanted to see how you were, and....."Carmody looks at Kanako, solemnly, not attempting to hide the regret on her face or the sadness in her eyes.
>"And tell you how sorry I am for the way I treated you." 