END GAME: THE COUNTDOWN STARTS

[sailmods]

[the prisoners wake up on cold, hard floors.

the lights are bright, glaring, a sterile cell with sterile bars facing a sterile hall. the prisoners with you, across from you, and no one else. no rocking of a ship in waves, nothing. just the prisoner and their prison.

time passes, one assumes. the rhythmic click of Friday’s heels down the hall. it’s almost like the ticking of a clock.]

Comments

[fonomena]

- Jade is glad to hear that Fio is okay. He'd like her to know that he's fine as well. Since she's recommending it, maybe he'll have a good cry after all! (He doesn't, of course, but maybe it's the thought that counts...)

- There is also thanks for sharing the letter. It sounds like either the Captain or Sparkles may not be under complete control after all; this is promising news. Apparently anyone who can get free will be able to enter the bridge, if they can reach it. Our lovely museum curator is probably within. Surely there will be some form of security out there, though...

[sabigoe]

■ Seemingly about fifteen minutes later (time isn't real... but it feels like some time has passed before Fio says something else!), Jade receives another message from Fio, asking:

"Are you feeling better now, Mister Specs? Sorry, I don't have a handkerchief to lend you." She really believes he may have had a 'good cry'...

■ "I don't know how we're gonna fight the mean lady... no one could even stop her back when we were on the Eterna."