[ the only way they'd prolong their stay is if they commit perjury in a mismanaged attempt to find their friends, wiped clean from the system with only negligible artifacts remaining. their homes, their occupations, their personal belongings — everything stripped bare save for their memories, and it's hard to gauge their accuracy when transposed next to the realization that he's staring up at minatsuki with wide, wide eyes.
now that's he's left metaphysically high and dry on incredulity, he's grasping for words, which come slow and stumbling, as if he's having difficulty enunciating syllables. ]
What? That can't be — how is that possible? Four whole years?
[ the highest institution any of them could conceivably landed themselves in was juvenile hall, not prison. it's ingenuous to expect that people from other worlds operated on the same terms, but still.
mercy, as it normally occurred to him, tended to be a universal concept. ]
sorry for the snail pace slowness of my tags in general :*
now that's he's left metaphysically high and dry on incredulity, he's grasping for words, which come slow and stumbling, as if he's having difficulty enunciating syllables. ]
What? That can't be — how is that possible? Four whole years?
[ the highest institution any of them could conceivably landed themselves in was juvenile hall, not prison. it's ingenuous to expect that people from other worlds operated on the same terms, but still.
mercy, as it normally occurred to him, tended to be a universal concept. ]