Rome, Italy Thursday Evening Fandom Time

[glacial_queen]

Even in Kaeleer, Karla made sure to keep a Fandom-based calendar handy, so she could keep track of things like friends' birthdays and things like that. A few days ago, she'd noted another anniversary was coming up, but not one as fun or exciting as a birthday.

Thursday, May 10th, was the day that Triela had died, last year. Funny how it felt like both more and less than that long. Funny how much it still hurt, an ache in her heart she doubted would ever go away.

After seeing that, Karla had made a few handwavy calls to people, friends of hers and Triela's that she thought might want to join her sojourn back to Italy. Unsurprisingly, several people had already made separate plans to do just that, but didn't mind combining those plans with hers. Karla couldn't speak for everyone, of course, but she was sure that very few people wanted to go back and remember their friend alone.

For once, Portalocity was willing to work with her, and she was able to set up several portals to meet in Rome for Thursday afternoon and a return set for late Thursday evening. Hopefully that would give everyone time to...do whatever they needed to do today.

[For any friends of Triela's who want to meet up. If you think you'd've gotten a phone call, you absolutely did. Give a sec for OCD. NFB, NFI]

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Re: Arrive

[glacial_queen]

Karla would try to stop her, at least, if it risked Raven's life.

"Either way, it doesn't change a thing for Triela," Karla said with a nod. "It's those other girls I worry for, now. How are they, I wonder."

Re: Arrive

[trigons_child]

If she were dying, she'd have no choice in the matter. So there. Nyah.

"Dying and then saved just to live a few more years in servitude only to die painfully?" Raven said, not hiding her bitterness. She remembered her conversation with Hilshire a year ago, and she still didn't think what they'd done to Triela and the other girls was justified merely by saving their lives.

Re: Arrive

[glacial_queen]

"Triela thought it was worth it," Karla reminded gently. "And it wasn't just servitude. In that extra time, she made friends. She learned who she was. She loved and was loved in return. We can't regret those years because we don't regret knowing her."

Re: Arrive

[trigons_child]

"But the drugs they gave her -- and the other girls -- they muddled her mind," Raven fretted. When it came to having her will controlled, she still had deep Sebastian- and Max-shaped issues.

"That is what bothers me the most. Their choices have been taken from them."

Re: Arrive

[glacial_queen]

"It bothers me, too," Karla admitted. "But I can't actually say that allowing them to die is a better choice, either."

Re: Arrive

[trigons_child]

"No, it is not," Raven said, shaking her head. She'd gone over that with Hilshire when she'd raged at him, but there was no easy solution. She'd had no choice when Sebastian resurrected her, and while she'd wanted to live, she didn't want to do so as his slave.

"Is there anything we can do here?" she said.

Re: Arrive

[glacial_queen]

"Mourn Triela," Karla said. "Miss her. Remember her. For the other girls? ...I don't know. We could offer them sanctuary if they wanted it, but they don't. And we can't ignore their choice in the name of 'rescuing' them, because then we'd be no better than the Agency."

Re: Arrive

[trigons_child]

Raven nodded, reluctant to agree, but.... "I hate feeling so helpless," she said. It was an all too familiar feeling lately.

Re: Arrive

[glacial_queen]

"You and me both," Karla said with a sigh, reaching out and giving Raven a hug. "I know intellectually that we can't solve everything, but it still feels like a punch in the gut every time I come face to face with something impossible."

Re: Arrive

[trigons_child]

Raven gratefully took that hug and squeezed her arms around Karla in return. "It does," she murmured. "I do not want to believe anything is impossible, but more and more I have had to accept that some things are."