savetheearth | fifteenth feather [Video/action]

[The video flickers to life, and it shows Rakka's face. She appears to be in Neuschwanstein. An odd sort of trend for people on the network recently, making posts while at the castle grounds. It was likely to not raise any particular warning signs, unless you know what this coincidence probably means.

Rakka brushed some hair from her face. It didn't help to improve her fairly disheveled look at all, and in fact might have made it worse. All in all, she didn't seem to be happy, or even smiling. Hey, was that a bruise?]

Hey, it's Rakka. [There just wasn't as much energy in her tone as usual.] It seems like everyone around here's been losing their minds. Apparently it means that there's clones of all of us running around... but, maybe it just means that things are getting even worse. In a way, that would make sense, right?

[But, honestly, she wasn't sure what was happening. She'd been thinking about what Emi had said to her, about her apparently showing the vampire some kindness. She wouldn't lie about that, would she...? What would she even have to gain, except for a moment's confusion on the Haibane's part which could be a little funny for someone else...]

Dammit... [She whispered with a sigh, expression quickly turning frustrated.] I don't fucking know. It's not like anything in this world makes any sense anyways. It doesn't even matter, does it? [A question that seems to bother her.] I'm trying really hard to figure that out... but I can't.

[And she kills the feed.]

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No! Nothing will work out!

[She breathed slowly, clearly biting back tears as her frustration took a grip on the poor winged girl.]

Fuck... You're just going to kill us, in the end. Or, we'll kill you. That's how it'll be, nothing good will ever happen.

[They jolt back, as if they were slapped.]

N-no...

W-we promise we won't kill anyone!

...But, if you don't, then you'll have to die.

[If they can. Rakka didn't know how it could be done, but most likely it could.]

Why are you guys so nice? You don't act anything like the Harvents I know! They don't care about anyone, alive or dead, only themselves.

[They don't really know how to feel about that.]

...Why does anyone have to kill anyone?

Oh! Uh. Well. That's nice of you to say.

But we're not really all that great...

There's all sorts of people we haven't been able to help!

So I don't really know why those...

Why they're so willing to...

[All they can do is shiver a little in horror.]

... Kill everyone. [She finished their sentence, even though it was obvious what they meant, even without saying it.]

The Harvents are immortal. So the know that even if someone catches them, they'll go free eventually. So they just keep doing what they want.

[She rubbed her cheek, feeling the light bruise that was setting in there.]

[They process the information carefully, slumping slightly. Its a lot to take in.]

But... that's...!

[They shake their heads in unison. They all know its not right. But even so, its... more than that. Its the fact that suddenly there's a threat they never considered to their happiness as immortals: someone else mucking things up along the way.]

Well, they can't kill us either...

So we'll just have to stick to our plan: help everyone forever!

[...Yep. Words like that sure did come out sounding exactly as confident as that. Somehow.]

[She scoffed. A light, derisive sound, one that they had likely never heard come out of their Rakka. Crushing their hopes... it felt almost karmic. They had hurt her before, right?

No, it wasn't them. It was the Harvents. She could only do this to avoid the other couple's wrath.]

But, can you do that? I don't think that's possible.

[She'd seen too much of the world to think it could get better.]

[This is very unnerving. But its still Rakka. Just. A different version of Rakka. Almost a different person. But still a person.]

Anything's possible!

And that makes it worth a shot!

Anything's possible...

[She repeats the words softly. They sounded almost as if they were in another language.]

Maybe... you two can do it, if you try. I wont.

You can count on it!

We'll do what we can for everyone!

[Rakka did not say anything. She did pause to wipe her eyes though. Yes, she was crying a little, mostly because she had never heard such words coming from people that looked like the Harvents.

It was.. .surprisingly touching.]

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