Suite Dreams - Cloud

[aono]

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[aono]

Did other people find rooms for the staff members too? Or did they find other stuff?

[Listen. Rin is never vague, except when it comes to romance, then he is Too Vague.]

[skyagain]

All the keys led to the staff rooms. It's the same ones those guys found that were labelled with letters back when we opened up housekeeping. The one that burst out into light?

[aono]

Right, those ones. So it means we were rifling through people's shit.

...I wonder if anyone found out who these staff members are.

[skyagain]

... I think something close to that might have been the point.

[aono]

...

You think my dad could be one of 'em?

[Rin no.]

[skyagain]

[

pats him on the head ]

Not... from what I've seen.

[aono]

Oh.

[Sad.]

's probably for the best, I don't think he'd cooperate here.

[skyagain]

... Probably not. Especially with what they have to do in this place.

He'd hate it.

[aono]

Yeah, he would hate it so much.

[Rin just misses him mostly.]

Plus I feel like he would've reached out to me by now, if he was here.

[skyagain]

... I wouldn't be so sure of that. If he had, it might've been a bad idea for him.

[ he says it with a bit of a frown ]

[aono]

Yeah? Why? It sounds like you know something there.

[It looks like it too, he sees that frown.]

[skyagain]

... You ever notice anything weird, about the staff?

[aono]

The way they pop out of nothingness is kinda weird, yeah. And one of 'em got really mad if I asked if they were the same as the shadows.

Let me guess: they're shadows.

[skyagain]

[ ... gently baps his head ]

No. I meant how they act.

[aono]

Not really? They act like people.

...sometimes crazy people, but still people.

[Virgo why so weird.]

[skyagain]

... Well, you're right that they are people. [ not shadows. ] Just... You got actors, where you're from?

[aono]

Yeah, like, the people who play characters in movies right?

[skyagain]

Right. I'd say the staff has a lot in common with people like that.

[aono]

Huh. So they're playing roles here?

[One could even say they're role-playing.]

[skyagain]

... Something like that. That's about as close to the truth as it gets, anyway.

[aono]

[He is writing that in his notes.]

Right, gotcha.

I did ask one of them a while ago if they had contracts too, but they wouldn't answer me.

[skyagain]

Yeah, there's no way they can answer that. [ dryly. ] But their boss only operates with those, so we can probably assume they have their own that's a lot stricter than ours.

[aono]

I hope the final battle isn't tricking them into a contract. That seems risky.

[Rin would absolutely mess it up. He's hoping, if it comes to that, that someone else can do it right.]

[skyagain]

... Why would they sign a contract with us when they already have one?