Week Five | Near the Jungle?? Wherever the treehouse is | Sunday (post execution)

[sasetai]

[ Here they are, at their not-quite-a-secret clubhouse (minus one Austria, bless her soul). Jinah took it upon herself precariously stack some rocks with one especially large and flat one at the top so they have a sort of wobbly table to sit at. ]

I don't really know if any of it is as interesting as you think it might be.

[ She's talking about the Jacopo debacle obviously. Just talking about it brings an annoyed sort of expression to her features. ]

Stupid Jacopo, he just had to say something.

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[sasetai]

[ At that her face immediately goes red-- she looks a little incredulous (and just a smidge outraged) ]

L-Love has nothing to do with anything here!

[ She brushes off some invisible dust on her skirt, not looking at Yona. ]

If it will keep you from making assumptions like that, Jacopo and I had a deal okay? Both of us.. we've both died before, and weren't afraid of dying again. But we both really wanted our partners to live-- so we made a deal, we'd find the person who can switch partners and if anyone ever tried to blame them [ Vriska and Laphicet. ] for anything we'd bring suspicion onto ourselves.

[ A sigh. ]

Not that it mattered-- since he's gone now.

[cutefaced]

Not even with one of the other "bad men" you were being warned about?

[...boo, that's boring. Yona wanted to hear a good love story. :( Let her live vicariously through you since she can't marry her cousin, Jinah...]

...that was really kind of you. Of both of you.

[Obviously it didn't work out that way - but was it because the timing just didn't work out, or...?]

Were... you ever able to find the person who had that role? I think the Chiefs said they can only do what they do on... Mondays, right? So if you found them any time before the trial, there wouldn't have been enough time...

[sasetai]

[ She'll get back to that.... just for Yona... ]

Well.. you know how Vriska is. The island has been pretty split about her since the beginning, and as far as Laphicet goes-- no one really wanted to vote for him but everyone was willing to vote for Jacopo.

[ She looks a little torn, so she doesn't speak for a moment. ]

We never found out who it was and our timing was a little off, but if we could have found who it was we could have worked around all that. By.. I don't know, defending them during a trial and putting all of this to work the week after? Vriska's allies are getting more and more scarce but I think even the people who don't like her can acknowledge she has good ideas.. she's gotten by because of that.

[ a sort of sheepish smile. ]

I'm not really useful in this place, but if I could do something to make sure that the island doesn't lose her for something as silly as how she expresses herself-- then I would do it.

[cutefaced]

[...she can't really argue that; Yona is one of the people who voted for Jacopo instead of Laphicet. So, yeah.]

I like Vriska a lot. I... didn't think I would, at first. We didn't get along.

[She looks thoughtful for a few long moments as she tries to figure out what she wants to say, and how she wants to say it.]

But she's been trying really hard, too, in her own way. And it's not a way that everyone understands, or that everyone even wants to understand, but... I do believe she wants to help us.

...look out for her, okay? She needs people to stand by her.

[sasetai]

I know that, I've always known that. And I plan to-- I have been. It's just.. I'm not really good at protecting people? Or I guess, I've never been really successful at it?

[ it's probably not the love story Yona wanted to hear but.. ]

You know the bad men I was talking about? Sometimes.. Sometimes I'm not sure if they were always bad or if I made them that way. Whatever it is I seem to have really bad luck when it comes to the people I care about-- so I want to keep Vriska safe.. if I can do anything at all.