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>You found a Grief Seed.
Time to do your job and change the subject before things go awkward! And what better way: having a Grief Seed at hand will surely prove that Lifa does value discipline- she can talk about the bloody battle all she wants. You glance at the Grief Seed that you found hidden inside a hollow bible- it stands upright on its needle no matter how hard you try to turn it sideways. You put it back on its hole and let it slowly slide down the open drawer- it falls uptight.
ರೃ Lucinda: This room is cursed.
Lifa: I am about to believe that!
She just sounded like a scared little kid. Lucinda simply picked up the still-standing bible.
ರೃ Lucinda: So you are religious.
Lifa: Not really. You?
ರೃ Lucinda: I never gave that topic thought.
She shakes it.
ರೃ Lucinda: There is a Grief Seed inside this book.
Lifa opens it up from her chest to confirm it. The Grief Seed spins gracefully in place, held there only by a few standing pages stacked together. She closes the book again and hides it in the same drawer.
ರೃ Lucinda: You have more of them.
Lifa: (shakes head) I’ve been saving that one for last for a while. It belonged… It's a friend.
ರೃ Lucinda: It is not your friend. Your friend is gone. That is food.
The little lich seems stuck choosing between five facial gestures, settling for neither in the end.
Lifa: It must be nice sometimes, being so coldhearted.
ರೃ Lucinda: You are talking about me. I’m telling the truth.
Lifa: I know. I’m not attacking you. I can’t let go. I can’t accept it, and it’s been years. I’ve decided I’ll be kicking that can for as long as I can.
ರೃ Lucinda: What can?
Lifa: The can is a metaphor for me realizing that my friend is well and truly dead- as you just said yourself.
……weeeeeeell, we can always just change the subject again! Or ask Felicia to smash their heads. No problem!
Hitomi’s pixelated face didn't change one bit. Well, Magical Girls with Grief Seeds... nothing strange about that, not at all.
