[center][color=gold][b][h1]Aerith Hastings[/h1][/b][/color][/center]

[center][i][h3]Here We Go Again Part 5: All Quiet On The Dying Front[/h3][/i][/center]

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Aerith felt a sudden surge of frustrations and anger bubbled up within herself, even as Chieko left them before she could say a word. She wasn't trying to even drag the smaller girl off with them to some other location, or to do the same house cleaning job or such things! In all reality, she had just wanted to check with her on what had happened on her end, and if she had died again or not like the rest of them. Hell, even just to make sure she was ok...but no. The girl had yanked away and run off to the others with a timidness, without so much as a word even. Not even a "hey did you both die or something" or "good luck" or the like with it!? At least she'd offered for the others to come with her, but...dammit. 

It was that person talking to the twintailed redhead, wasn't it? Chieko had gone with them before, she remembered. Trying to rush them along to get their papers or something based on what she could hear from here? She....if they thought that was the best idea she couldn't blame them if it had worked out for that other group. But this was also causing the consequence of sabotaging any chances to work out what had happened last round as well....right.....right?

Even Hiro didn't seem to listen to her as he, like Chiecko, said something to her and walked off to talk to someone else. In this case, telling Fritzi that he was coming with her as she could hear him say from the short distance away. With no one with her at the moment, Aerith's hands clenched tightly, her knuckles turning white. She was no boss, but....couldn't they understand she was trying to help them all?! Could they not think for two seconds about sharing information, or anything else SMART like that in this situation they were in at all!?!? Did they all think it could be the same as last time without question, that by blocking out hearing what else happened and not saying anything new they'd be protected from death another time? 

There was no guarantee of that or anything else here, potentially...

Despite some minor visible signs of agitation, even as the girl did her best to maintain a calm and proper facade, Aerith for the majority part kept up her mask. Deciding to give at least Hiro another chance at this, she 'patiently' waited for him to walk back to talk again (which he seemed to, thankfully, do). At that, another one of the people among the others (Flame, as granted permission by his RP'er for) seemed to walk over to her as well. It brought some minor ease to her mind, albeit the emotions remained pent up a bit despite the minor respite granting her some better grasp them at this time. It was just enough ground mentally to get a hold of herself, but...she wondered how long the self-control would last right now. 

[color=gold]"This is....just entirely stupid,"[/color] Aerith said with a very light bit of strain audible in her otherwise calm tone, Flame and Hiro now being the only ones close enough to Aerith listen to hear speak at the time, [color=gold]"We need to share information to try to figure out what happened and plan what to do, that's all i was wanting to pull everyone to talk about! And i just wanted to make sure Chieko was ok at that. Apparently she and everyone going to get permits were safe, at least....but still...whatever happened in that clinic killed a lot of us at once.

And Hiro, i agree that i, you, and Alistair if possible need to take the same route again to re-create the same conditions as we go to clean that house. I've got a score to settle with that shrimp who was going to gut me too, and i don't want to leave you alone for that fight. We know how they want to attack us, when they'll probably show up. If the remainder of this money can be used to buy a dagger, or maybe some super-thin wire or something, or anything else we need to prepare for them more properly that would be good."[/color]

Aerith then distinctly looked to Flame for the next part, after taking a few deep breaths to lower the feelings of agitation. Focusing on the matter at hand, at least for her, was beginning to help just a bit on the mental side of things. Even so, she still would only speak where Flame and Hiro could hear her right now. 

[color=gold]"Now then...what i was going to originally say. This group is too big to manage at once and keep together without painting a target on our backs potentially. So if we break into smaller groups, and try to at least communicate here, maybe we could better figure things out and avoid dying. 

I can't say i know for sure that would be best, but none of us know each other that well overall probably. So if we were together i have no idea if we'd all be able to work together on that level. If work together at all. 

And you, i know you were at the clinic with all of us who died last round. We all heard what she said, too. I have no idea what you were all doing beforehand, but if you and anyone else could maybe solve that particular mystery...we might be able to stop anyone in that clinic from dying. At least, if you take that route again with the same choices that got you there in the first place. I wouldn't blame you if you want to go with the group going to get permits...but its also not like we all know what might happen if too many people or everyone went to get permits at the same time as well."[/color]

Reasonable worries, attempts to make a logical strategy. This was the name of what Aerith had wanted to bring some of the others over here to talk about the general situation. Maybe let some people go with other groups with this knowledge so they could at least try to help organize things on other ends....maybe coordinate with their people or something to help others along the line. 

For example, Chieko going with the others, getting papers, and maybe being able to say something to guards about "suspicious people" showing up at the house Aerith and Hiro would be going back to now. Then maybe help could show up if the riming was right....ah. Perhaps that example was too specific for sure, but at the same time they didn't have to make big waves to properly stop dying. Her first experience with this proved that, as much as it chilled her to the bone. So maybe...organizing things somehow in some fashion would work? 

To her it felt better than one large target composed of everyone together, and better than potentially a batch of many squabbling people trying to enact various plans without any sense of organization. She'd seen too much of that crap at home, too much that she was sick of it. She didn't want to die, and to an extent she didn't want these others to die either. 

Why did people not even listen to reason before jerking away from it sometimes?! It was so stupid, so foolish, so aggravating to the nth degree that she wanted to scream sometimes back home. And now there was this...these people, random people from Earth, who probably had the same talk with that "particular fellow" before coming here if she had to retain that guesswork on her part. And for what? Because a certain someone loved them enough to pull them into this mess? 

[color=gold][i]'...Whomever you are out there, who loves me enough to get me brought here...please help me survive. Please help me survive and meet you, and understand why you had us brought here in the first place. Why? Why did you bring us here to die over and over like this? Entertainment? Pity? I want to understand!'[/i][/color] the girl cried out mentally in her mind in the manner of a prayer, hoping something out there in the ether would listen to her amidst all of this...and actually help at that. It was a desperate move, but she was having to come to terms with all of this madness somehow. 

If her attempts to make a plan here didn't work, she'd have to get desperate. More and more desperate until either people listened...or she would go off on her own.