005; CLOSED. and darling, i saw it all.

[norea]

Who: The present anti-CL team.
What: Meeting to discuss.
Where: Lost Society, in the library.
When: Misdi, around midnight.
Notes: plotsss. I'll have three comment sections: one for Rhade showing up early, one for the collective group (we'll have to sort out orders since there are quite a few characters), and one for separate character interactions (one on one or whatever y'all prefer). AND... we will have to copypaste in our tags from LJ, soooo.
Warnings: idk yet.

The spell that Hasibe has worked over Lost Society means that no one is going to remember they were there; service will be a bit spotty, as a result, and the waiters on hand will seem peculiarly disinterested in whomever shows up, only providing them with drinks and necessities when deliberately prodded, but that's an aspect of the magic. She partially chose this location because it's easy to find a secluded area there, and in this case, she finds a table in the library, shrugging off her white coat to rest it on the back of her chair. She is dressed in a sleek, high-collared dark-green dress that is not too flashy, in order to keep with the discretion of the venue.

The other reason she chose this place is that they don't care if you smoke indoors. So that's what she's doing, rose-flavored Black Devil cigarette in hand, sitting back in her chair as she exhales smoke toward the ceiling. She has a couple books open on the table in front of her, and nothing in the way of food, but she does have a drink. Priorities.

Comments

[rhinemaid]

"They also tend to think they don't gossip." Ilde has found this to be not the case, and is making a game attempt to use it as a clever segue away from fussing and the reasons why. It doesn't really matter, surely.

[norea]

"Ivan strikes me as capable of knowing when to keep his cards close to his chest." Which is (partly, the other half being that it's not the correct way to go about this sort of thing unless this behavior becomes genuinely damaging to Ilde) why she's not asking him what's wrong first.

"If I ask you if you're all right, you'll tell me you're fine."

[rhinemaid]

It's what she's been telling Ivan; he's just been ignoring it, having deemed it so absurd as to not be worth arguing with. (He's not wrong.)

"I am fine," she says, reflexively.

[norea]

"You're not, and it's never more apparent than when you insist you are. If you can't talk about it," not 'don't want to,' notably, "that's fine, but don't lie, not to me."

Especially since, while she doesn't know what went awry, she is inclined to feel some vague sense of responsibility where Ilde is concerned. They each make their own decisions, often times bad ones, but Hasi feels like she owes it to Ilde's father to at least keep an eye out.

Unfortunately, there was also a subtle tip for 'how to fake being okay' in there, so perhaps Hasibe's not the best person for that.

[rhinemaid]

That tip is the first thing she registers and what she will remember later; it's been true as long as they've known each other that the things they have in common are nothing good. It's not the only part that she processes, though, and her gaze drops awkwardly after a few beats of stillness, like a child chastized. Ilde is still so young, sometimes.

"Okay," she says, at length. "I'm trying to be fine."