piteous | HOMOPHONIC 🌺 SHU LYN O'KEEFE

About someone knowing something they shouldn't? Yeah.

got any idea what that might mean? i'm guessing people have been telling the reapers even though i think i've been receiving messages for the past three weeks not to tell them.

If the reapers know it probably made it back up the chain. Remember, the reapers are pretty low down the pecking order. They have a boss.

yeah, yeah! they're support to report anomalies to their boss, but i wonder what info slipped through here... by the way, did you have the ice cream that showed up at the end of execution two weeks ago at the cavern cafeteria?

Could be something we didn't think mattered, but it seemed suspicious to them. From what people have told me, Ruby's more chill but Aika would report things higher up if she felt she had to.

[ gal's just doin' her job ]

No. Why?

Aika did tell me that she took this job because she can't return home, so i can see her being more serious about reporting. it's not really about the ice cream so... Livio and I met up with Ruby after execution because I wanted to repair my cybernetic arm. it was usable, but at times it would move weird ways and it would get worse if i didn't get some maintenance. we brought her some ice cream and she said what we were holding was bugs. not ice cream made out of bugs, but it was simply bugs. she was insistent, but it looked like ice cream and tasted like ice cream to us. what does that sound like to you?

Ah. If it's the only think she has, then she doesn't have any reason to jeopardise her position here.

Bugs, huh. You think it was an illusion or something, then? Reapers aren't part of whatver this is, so it might be that they aren't affected by things that happen to us in the same way. Also did you actually get your arm sorted properly?

yeah. i think so, too. i don't think she has anything personal against us, but she's doing her job. ughhhh. it might be a team psych like the Santa Netzach and Yuzuriha, now that i actually think about it. but there was that one message that was decoded from that one of the weeks that mentioned anomalies and had a pig emoji. do pigs mean something?? there is a weird amount of pig motifs at the church? i swore i saw pig drawings at the subway before??? what does anything mean???? what are we supposed to look out for???????

It’s a mentality I understand.

There were pigs at curfew the other day, right? More and more of them have been showing up. It probably means something, I just don’t know what.

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I guess we’re meant to be on our toes. But it’s not exactly easy when you have no idea what you’re meant to be on your toes for.