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[12:20] <Minaplo> Basebook. Earlier that week.-
[12:20] <Minaplo> (ROY) You want to let him stay here? Well I guess it's fine, how bad could he be?-
[12:20] <Minaplo> …-
[12:22] <Minaplo> WEDNESDAY-
[12:23] <Minaplo> Sachiko opened the kitchen door-
[12:23] <Minaplo> "HO!" Caolan stood before her, resplendent in an apron emblazoned with the words 'DADDY FRY' across the front. He was tossing a large pile of fried rice in a pan in front of him.-
[12:23] <Minaplo> "One fried rice, coming right up!"-
[12:24] <Minaplo> "Leave the cooking to me!" Shouted Asahina from behind her booth.-
[12:24] <Minaplo> "NO!"-
[12:24] <Minaplo> …-
[12:24] <Minaplo> WEDNESDAY EVENING.-
[12:24] <Minaplo> Sachiko opened the front door-
[12:24] <Minaplo> The furniture… Why had it changed!?-
[12:25] <Minaplo> Why was it all… All… Organised?-
[12:25] <Minaplo> "He's been doing it since he got home." Snapped Roy.-
[12:25] <Minaplo> Caolan was currently pushing the large couch into position.-
[12:26] <Minaplo> "Don't just stand there. Give me a hand!"-
[12:26] <Minaplo> …-
[12:26] <Minaplo> THURSDAY MORNING.-
[12:26] <Minaplo> VUUUUUUM. VUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM.-
[12:26] <Minaplo> "Stop it!" Shouted Roy from the top of the stair. "Stop cleaning!"-
[12:27] <Minaplo> Caolan ran back and forth with a hand vacuum, restoring the carpet to a colour it hadn't been in possibly years.-
[12:27] <Minaplo> "It's too fucking early!" Roy turned to look at her. "Sachikoooooo!"-
[12:27] <Minaplo> …-
[12:27] <Minaplo> THURSDAY EVENING.-
[12:27] <Minaplo> Smithson crept in through the front door.-
[12:27] <Minaplo> The kitchen burst open-
[12:28] <Minaplo> Smithson, demonstrating a truly remarkable degree of panicked acrobatics, flipped herself back outside the door as Caolan burst out bearing several plates of rice, dumplings and grilled pork.-
[12:28] <Minaplo> Sachiko climbed out of the car to find Smithson scowling down at her. "Sachiko!"-
[12:28] <Minaplo> …-
[12:29] <Minaplo> THURSDAY NIGHT.-
[12:29] <Minaplo> "Damn door. Unlock!" Snapped Caolan, pulling roughly on the door to the 5 Soejima library.-
[12:29] <Minaplo> "It must be stuck. I'll have to fix it."-
[12:29] <Minaplo> He began unscrewing the door handle.-
[12:30] <Minaplo> "OH NO." Screamed Roy. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"-
[12:30] <Minaplo> …-
[12:30] <Minaplo> Sachiko would hear the telltale sound of screaming Choi and shouting cat long before she saw the two of them rolling down the staircase, trapped in furious melee.-
[12:30] <Minaplo> "SACHIKO!" Shouted Roy. "COME GET YOUR FUCKING MAN!"-
[12:30] <Minaplo> "Sachiko!" Cried Choi. "Your cat has the rabies!"
[12:37] <Sachiko> Sachiko walked over, planted a foot on Choi's chest and then firmly yanked Roy off him with both hands around his midsection.-
[12:37] <Sachiko> "My cat does not have 'the rabies', Choi." It was delivered with the withering, exhausted patience of someone who'd spent a week working around the clock.
[12:37] <Minaplo> Choi stared down at the foot on his chest.-
[12:39] <Minaplo> Then he looked Sachiko in the eye. "I was trying to fix a double-door in the above floor and he just flew at me. Rabies."
[12:39] <Minaplo> [Sachiko, why is he like this?]
[12:45] <Sachiko> She removed her foot with sudden urgency and set Roy down behind her, leaving Sachiko acting as the barrier between them. "You're lucky the cat got you before Schreier did."-
[12:46] <Sachiko> ["Stress, I think? Or at least I hope it's stress…"]
[12:46] <Minaplo> "Better watch yourself, punk." Hissed Roy at Choi before slinking away.-
[12:47] <Minaplo> "Hiss yourself, cat." Choi dusted himself off and got to his feet.-
[12:47] <Minaplo> "Why would Schreier go for me?"
[12:50] <Sachiko> "You've got a pathological need to be in charge of your environment and it's exhausting to live with." Really flexing that Psychology top score there, Sachiko.
[12:51] <Minaplo> "Actually, I grew up in a large, poor family where the expectation that you contribute to the wellbeing of the household is drilled into you from a young age."-
[12:51] <Minaplo> He bopped her on the nose, then slipped past her. "Close, though!"
[12:52] <Sachiko> "I should've let the cat kill you."
[12:53] <Minaplo> "Please. I would've shown that cat a thing or two."-
[12:53] <Minaplo> He jumped on the bannister and slid down the rest of the way. "Whee."
[12:56] <Sachiko> […]
[12:56] <Sachiko> FLASHBACK-
[12:57] <Sachiko> On the text message chain between Sachiko and Shun Yukimura…-
[12:57] <Sachiko> [So is there like a trick to living with him, or…?]
[12:59] <Minaplo> [He's usually a delight to live with, so long as you remember three things:]-
[12:59] <Minaplo> [Don't get him wet, don't expose him to sunlight, don't feed him after midnight.]-
[12:59] <Minaplo> [Because all of the Choi family are gremlins.]-
[12:59] <Minaplo> [Ha.]-
[01:00] <Sachiko> [12]
[01:01] <Minaplo> [Choi is not used to having free time. He also feels gratitude to you, so he'll be trying to pay you back. He will also internalise firm boundaries so long as you tell him honestly and to his face.]
[01:04] <Sachiko> […]-
[01:06] <Sachiko> "Anyway," she said, following along behind him with a much slower, limpier method. Stairs were slow work. "That room's off limits. The landlord uses it for personal storage."
[01:07] <Minaplo> "Oh. I see. I'll avoid it from now on. Pardon me." He said, at the bottom of the bannister- he'd put his foot out, stopping himself before he slid off the end. He now sort of sat on the bannister, one leg out.
[01:10] <Sachiko> "Ditto for the basement. If it's locked just leave it be." She pushed his leg down so she could get down the last few stairs and into the living room.-
[01:10] <Sachiko> "I'm done with all my digging, by the way."
[01:11] <Minaplo> His expression became serious; he hopped off the bannister. "What've you got?"
[01:14] <Sachiko> She snagged her bag from the foot of the stairs, where it'd been dumped on her way to break up the catfight.-
[01:14] <Sachiko> "A bunch. Come on, let's sit down and I can run you through it."
[01:14] <Minaplo> "Lead the way." He said.
[01:31] <Sachiko> Sachiko went and flopped onto the couch, and swung her feet up onto with a small sigh of relief.-
[01:31] <Sachiko> She dug a folder out of her bag and slid it across the table and towards Choi. It was the same kind she'd used for the Fiend research, luckily she'd bought a bulk package of them.-
[01:31] <Sachiko> "Lily Xun is willing to go on the record as our flagship case in the abuse inquiry. She's got a pretty heartbreaking story, but she's willing to go on the record if it means burning whoever's messing with her down," Sachiko said. She looked so tired, and nowhere near as guarded as she normally did. This one had clearly upset her. "She's incredible. I'm going to make the story count, and it implicates Chen directly."-
[01:32] <Sachiko> "I also have testimony a bunch of students willing to substantiate the pattern of violence Dexu's been propping up…"
[01:35] <Minaplo> "Xun, hm? I wish it hadn't come to that. I know her circumstances, it could be bad for her to go public…" Said Choi. He sat next to her, and folded his legs beneath him.-
[01:36] <Minaplo> "And students willing to testify about the violence. I wish it didn't fall on them to do so, but at least we have them."-
[01:36] <Minaplo> He put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed it gently. "Hey. You did a fantastic job."
[01:46] <Sachiko> "Thanks," she said quietly. She shut her eyes for a second, and the threat of them staying shut seemed momentarily real.-
[01:47] <Sachiko> But it didn't come true that time.-
[01:47] <Sachiko> "Oh, and…" She pulled out her phone swiped around for a minute and turned it around to show the still thumbnail of a video file. "Footage that fits out timeline and pretty clearly shows Chen tampering with the exams."-
[01:47] <Minaplo> "Wha-"
[01:47] <Sachiko> "And I recorded the audio from our little argument in the club room. We can sink them."
[01:47] <Sachiko> "I did a lot of work, Choi," she said solemnly.
[01:47] <Minaplo> His eyebrows rose.-
[01:48] <Minaplo> "I'm impressed. But that footage…" He eyed the thumbnail. "How?"
[01:48] <Sachiko> "Stole it."
[01:48] <Minaplo> "From a security camera?"
[01:48] <Sachiko> "Yep."
[01:48] <Minaplo> "I mean… That's not great." He said.-
[01:49] <Minaplo> "You really shouldn't steal that. It's kind of a crime." He slipped his phone out of his pocket. "It doesn't really help our chances."-
[01:49] <Minaplo> He held up his phone, showing a still thumbnail of a video file. From a different security camera. "I'm very disappointed in you."
[01:50] <Sachiko> "Same to you," she said. "That's a way worse angle. Try harder."
[01:50] <Minaplo> "Dunno what you mean by that." He said. "This is footage of Dexu, leaving on friday night, with something in his hand."-
[01:51] <Minaplo> "It's a tape recorder." He waggled the phone. "I don't know what's on it, but I bet it's the blackmail."
[01:53] <Sachiko> "Hm. Alright, let me see." She held out her phone with one hand and extended an empty palm to take his. "Trade."
[01:54] <Minaplo> "Trade."-
[01:54] <Minaplo> Sachiko would see… It was definitely Dexu, looking rather spooked.-
[01:57] <Minaplo> "Dexu has a nervous habit, you see…"-
[01:57] <Minaplo> He was hurrying up onto the roof, pulling a stick of jerky out of his jacket. As he did so the tape recorder fell out, and he caught it, but not without the camera getting all of it.-
[01:58] <Minaplo> There was a door to a 3rd year classroom below, and through the window Sachiko could see the tip of a wing…-
[01:59] <Minaplo> She could also see, looking around the corner, the head of the kimono girl. She startled when Dexu dropped the recorder- but it was impossible to make out any features before she withdrew.
[02:04] <Sachiko> When it finished, Sachiko played it from the beginning again. The frown she'd started got a little deeper.-
[02:04] <Sachiko> "… The tape recorder's pretty analogue for 2018. Old evidence, maybe?" There were other questions, but not ones she could voice here.
[02:05] <Minaplo> "Maybe he was worried about being hacked. I've heard complaints from students about that."
[02:07] <Sachiko> "Yeah, you could be right."-
[02:07] <Sachiko> With a bit of effort, her frown disappeared. "I tried to dig up what the blackmail might be about, but I didn't have much luck."
[02:07] <Minaplo> "We probably won't unless we somehow get one of them to talk, or we get that tape."
[02:10] <Sachiko> "Mhmm. Yufei's the obvious weak link, but if it was me I'd only be telling her things I was willing to let go of."
[02:11] <Minaplo> "Agreed. My suspicion is that Dexu won't have told anyone."
[02:14] <Sachiko> "No real reason to."-
[02:14] <Sachiko> "I don't feel bad for fighting dirty when he turned down the chance to be polite," Sachiko said, rubbing her face. "It's kind of a shame, though."
[02:16] <Minaplo> "It always is. I don't enjoy fighting dirty, regardless."
[02:18] <Sachiko> "Yeah…"-
[02:18] <Sachiko> "Hey, I'm going to ask a personal question. Feel free not to answer it, okay?"
[02:19] <Minaplo> "Okay."
[02:22] <Sachiko> Even with the permission, Sachiko struggled with the question. "You and Dexu, were you ever-"-
[02:22] <Sachiko> "… you know, more than friends?"
[02:23] <Minaplo> Choi stared at her.-
[02:23] <Minaplo> Then he started laughing.-
[02:24] <Minaplo> "Oh my. Is the madame asking me if I ever starred alongside Farewell, my Concubine! with Liu Dexu? Is that what she's so politely inquiring?"
[02:26] <Sachiko> "Look," Sachiko began, immediately defensive and even a little red in the face from the laughter. "That's not what I get from you, but it's absolutely what I get from him! It didn't seem unreasonable to check!"
[02:28] <Minaplo> Choi's grin was huge; he was clutching at his side. "Yes, you got me! I met him on the first day of school! He was running late, toast in mouth- big wham!"-
[02:28] <Sachiko> Sachiko was fuming.
[02:31] <Minaplo> "-For years my spurning of him burned in his chest until finally he overthrew me, not from ambition, but from revenge!" Choi was on one knee, hand in the air, his expression so solemn it was impossible not to find it funny.-
[02:31] <Minaplo> "Are you one of those girls who sees two boys fighting and wonders, 'Man, I bet the hate sex must be wild between them'? Are you one of those?"
[02:38] <Sachiko> Absolutely red-faced now. "The minute I asked him if there was something more than politics to your broken relationship he burst into tears and then asked me about my feelings for you! You have a promise you can't remember but he brings up at every opportunity! You both seem absolutely miserable about this shit!"-
[02:38] <Sachiko> "VERY VALID QUESTION, SACHIKO."
[02:38] <Minaplo> Choi was crying.-
[02:38] <Minaplo> He reached out and put a hand on her leg.-
[02:39] <Minaplo> "D… DEKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"-
[02:39] <Minaplo> "KACCHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"
[02:39] <Sachiko> "motherfucker"
[02:39] <Minaplo> "KAKAROTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"-
[02:39] <Minaplo> "TAKE MY BIG BANG"
[02:40] <Sachiko> Sachiko snatched her phone out of his hand and stood up.
[02:40] <Sachiko> "Forgive me for thinking you had the capacity for goddamn human attraction, Choi."
[02:41] <Minaplo> It took a while for Choi to finish laughing.-
[02:41] <Minaplo> "Look, look. It's not that." He said.-
[02:42] <Minaplo> "It's just that you were so cute doing it. Very respectful of a thing I have zero shame talking about."-
[02:42] <Minaplo> "… And the fact that you shipped me with my enemy."-
[02:42] <Sachiko> "I WAS NOT SHIPPING."
[02:42] <Sachiko> "You two would be terrible, why would I ship that?"
[02:43] <Minaplo> "That's what I want to know, captain."-
[02:43] <Minaplo> "But no, it's time I was honest with you." Choi stood up. He took a deep breath.-
[02:44] <Minaplo> "Kurata… I'm… I'm straight. I know. I'm a disappointment of a theatre kid, but I like girls exclusively!"-
[02:44] <Minaplo> "… And so does Dexu, by the way. Your gaydar was off."
[02:48] <Sachiko> "Gaydar is bullshit," Sachiko grumbled. "I wasn't making a judgement on sexuality, it just would've neatly answered some questions."
[02:49] <Minaplo> He suddenly fell onto the couch, very close to her.-
[02:49] <Minaplo> "So what did you say when he asked about your feelings for me, hm?"
[02:53] <Sachiko> Now that she was not being laughed at, any red-facedness was residual at best. "I said you were a friend. That was before this conversation, though, so you're probably getting rounded down."
[02:53] <Minaplo> He laughed.-
[02:53] <Minaplo> "Sorry for laughing. I shouldn't be discouraging your legwork." He patted her on the head, then stood up.-
[02:54] <Minaplo> "So did he say what the promise was? Because I really can't remember."
[02:56] <Sachiko> "Didn't seem open to talking about much of his side of things," Sachiko shrugged. "Mostly he wanted to talk about yours. You ambitions, and so on."
[03:01] <Minaplo> "Oh really…?"
[03:08] <Sachiko> "Well, he asked what I thought they were." She was working herself back into her conversational rhythm now. "And then I guessed, based on what data I had."-
[03:08] <Sachiko> "My guess was: Correcting the Hong Kong and China relationship to let Hong Kong survive, probably meaning you need to become a power player in mainland politics."-
[03:09] <Sachiko> "Hadn't really considered it until he asked, but it answered some questions."
[03:11] <Minaplo> "So that's what he thinks, hm?" Said Choi.-
[03:11] <Minaplo> "It's true that when I was younger, I definitely said I'd do that. But I'm not sure if I'm the same person who made that promise…"-
[03:12] <Minaplo> "The truth is, the major thing I want to do is get my parents and siblings somewhere safe." He said. "And that'll be a lot easier if I have a good, respectable career."
[03:13] <Sachiko> "Right…" She said, a little haltingly.-
[03:13] <Sachiko> "Sorry to double back, but wouldn't that promise count as a… you know, promise?"
[03:14] <Minaplo> "But why would he be angry at me for forgetting that promise? Besides, it's a promise I made to myself, not to anyone else."
[03:17] <Sachiko> "I don't know," she said helplessly. "All I know is that the conversation kept looping back around to his doubt that you were capable of doing the things you claimed to want to do, and so it was up to him to pick up your slack."-
[03:17] <Sachiko> "I don't know if that's the thing, but it might be something in that ballpark?"
[03:17] <Minaplo> "Maybe. Who knows?" He shook his head.
[03:18] <Sachiko> "Yeah…"
[03:19] <Minaplo> "Regardless, his motives don't matter as much as the action." He turned to Sachiko. "We have our shaped charge. Now we need to decide how to set it off."
[03:22] <Sachiko> "Let's start from how you would like to do it and then build from there."
[03:23] <Minaplo> He smirked.-
[03:24] <Minaplo> "We need to deliver the message in a way that neither the school nor the media can ignore."-
[03:25] <Minaplo> "Dexu's convinced people through a mix of rhetoric and polemic from that rag of his, but I… Also know how to convince people. And I do mine on a stage, in front of an audience."-
[03:26] <Minaplo> "How about tomorrow? During the post-exam parade?"
[03:32] <Sachiko> "I don't know if that's a good idea, Choi…" she frowned.-
[03:32] <Sachiko> "It's theatrical, sure, but Dexu's got enough of a grip on the students that we're not going to have a lot of sway. If we hand the info straight to the papers we can catch them from an unexpected source and disrupt that swell of support."
[03:35] <Minaplo> "The local papers are fairly reluctant to report on these problems as thoroughly as they should." Said Choi. "Besides, I know these students better than people think I do. They're tired, they're annoyed, they have exams in four weeks, which is ridiculous, and nothing's been done about any of it. If we make a scene at the parade, we can combo that into media interviews- because the local scene won't have any choice but to go for the hot scoop. It's pure controversy in a flashy manner."
[03:40] <Sachiko> "Okay, but what happens if it goes wrong?" She said stubbornly. "We're overextended with all our chips already cashed."
[03:43] <Minaplo> "That's true of any plan we do, though." Said Choi. "Dexu is only going to consolidate his grip on things. If we do this within the first week, it'll appear decisive, and it could shock Chen into something too. No matter how cautious we are, we have to commit resources we can only commit once, and if we're going to put our chips in we may as maximise their impact, and this is exactly that."
[03:43] <Minaplo> "Besides."
[03:44] <Minaplo> "How hard will it be to provoke Liu Dexu and Joshua Kwan into violence, in public, on stage, when I'm there ruining his day of victory?"
[03:57] <Sachiko> "Not especially hard, but are you sure that's a great goal here?" She was doing a lot of hand talking by that point. "If you interrupt a school parade to talk shit about the school and then fistfight the new Council President live on stage you are getting expelled."-
[03:57] <Sachiko> "Meanwhile if I go to the papers they might want to expel me, but it's terrible PR and they lose my parents' donations and tuition."
[03:58] <Minaplo> "I'm not talking about fist-fighting, Sachiko. I'm talking about getting attacked. Letting them be seen as initiating it. You know, like I did last time."-
[03:59] <Sachiko> "I know what you're saying, Choi. But it didn't play then and I'm not sure it plays better now."
[04:00] <Minaplo> "Do any of your student testimonies mention them landing the first blow?"
[04:03] <Sachiko> She sighed. "Yes. And Fujiwara's a nice kid, but I don't think she can spot a plot. Pretty much everyone else could see you were provoking him."
[04:05] <Minaplo> "Mhm. Now, Dexu was there yelling about how I was undermining the students' will and upholding a corrupt administration, correct? Now what do you think would've happened if I'd swung first?"
[04:09] <Sachiko> "Yes, Choi, I follow the logic," she said, growing steadily more heated. "You swing first and you are the one upholding corrupt administration and so on."-
[04:09] <Sachiko> "But you're doing this in an environment with a lot of variables, most of which you have no control over. Chaos theory hits sociology as hard as anything else."
[04:10] <Minaplo> "And I follow your logic." Said Choi.-
[04:10] <Minaplo> "And I would trust your plan more if I hadn't been trying and getting ignored by the local papers for the last few months."
[04:17] <Sachiko> She stared at him. "… why wouldn't you have told me that?"
[04:24] <Minaplo> He rubbed at his face.-
[04:26] <Minaplo> "The local papers can be pretty slippery, you know. They handle people. They know they shouldn't be in the Academy's orbit, but they are anyway, and they know how to deal with people who want to make them do hard decisions. It wasn't as though they just outright said 'no'. They strung me along, giving me promises here and there, suddenly- cancellations, issues… Then one thing led to another and it never came up because it wasn't your job to negotiate with the bastards, and the next thing I know it's exam period and there's a gang war…"-
[04:27] <Minaplo> He fell back onto the couch. "When the news about Asaka broke, most of the media at the gates weren't from Katashiba, they were from Aichi prefecture, or greater Japan. You would've seen the local coverage on Sophia, noted it felt pretty token."-
[04:28] <Minaplo> "Well, the school's been pretty hush since then anyway, but the parade's a big deal, and it'll draw some of the faculty into the media spotlight."-
[04:28] <Minaplo> "And that'll draw lenses from farther away."-
[04:29] <Minaplo> "Chaos theory, I know, but we're not the establishment right now. Any chaos benefits us. And the moment it does, we offer clarity on the other hand."-
[04:30] <Minaplo> "I know you like to plan these things out, but you have to trust me on this. I'm good at tolerating uncertainty for a reason: I know how to read it. I'm a lot better at taming chaos than people think."
[04:53] <Sachiko> She was quiet for an uncomfortably long time.-
[04:53] <Sachiko> "Okay." Her stare was a lot different to what Choi was used to. It was closer to what he'd seen in that first car ride - a stare that seemed to cut through him. "If you can promise me this is as good for Lily Xun as it is for you I'll back you."-
[04:53] <Sachiko> "And if you can't, that's okay. We'll work something out, and I may be able to help us secure some Aichi coverage with a bit of work."-
[04:54] <Sachiko> "I just need to make sure you're remembering that we're gambling with a lot others' stories here, and a lot of them have way less power than us and haven't given their explicit consent."
[04:56] <Minaplo> The stare that he returned burned- his eyes seemed to be emanating heat. "I'm factoring that in. I'm not going to betray their trust, nor yours."-
[04:57] <Minaplo> "You'll be part of the parade, so you'll be on hand. You don't actually walk, you sort of wait… Backstage. Your first duty will be to help get me somewhere backstage too." He said.-
[04:57] <Minaplo> "The parade comes to you, I suppose…"-
[04:59] <Minaplo> "The rest is me. Drumming up controversy, drawing the eye. Getting the students animated. Throwing things into chaos. Once that happens, people will want answers. The media will try to figure out the narrative. The second thing you do is you get the media. It'll be a live broadcast, unfiltered- I'm leaving it up to you. But remember that one chaos sets in, people will be looking to the news to make sense of things. That means you shape the narrative."-
[05:00] <Minaplo> "I make the pledge, I do the turn- and you're the prestige."
[05:12] <Sachiko> "Okay, and what's our exit strategy if and when it goes wrong?"
[05:15] <Minaplo> "It'll be extremely easy to draw everyone's attention at this parade." Said Choi. "You're practically guaranteed that. The only things that could derail our plan is if I can't get on stage, I can't turn the crowd or I can't create enough chaos to get the media going."-
[05:16] <Minaplo> "If I can't get on stage, then, well, we fail with no cost. If I can't turn the crowd, then I can at least cause enough mayhem to get the media going. And if I can't get the media going… Then we really have bigger problems than we figured and nothing we do would help."-
[05:16] <Minaplo> "There actually aren't that many moving parts to our machine."
[05:23] <Sachiko> Eventually Sachiko nodded despite her obvious uncertainty. "Alright."
[05:23] <Minaplo> "There we go."-
[05:24] <Minaplo> He held out a hand. "Put your faith in me. Okay?"
[05:32] <Sachiko> "It's not a matter of trust, Choi. It's just-" Sachiko shook her head. For a moment she felt like there was a bottleneck between her brain and her mouth, clogged with thoughts bigger than she knew how to communicate.-
[05:32] <Sachiko> "I don't know." So she settled. "… but yeah, you've got it."-
[05:32] <Sachiko> She took his hand.
[05:33] <Minaplo> The Emperor arcana strengthens…

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