TIAMAT + DAWON

[soulping]

[At any time when they are not in the hot seat, PARTICIPATING MEMBERS may slip away to their dressing room. It's small and comfortable, with seats for everyone, and water. Otherwise, it's bare.]

[They will not be permitted to stay in the room when they are up on the hot seat.]

Comments

[evervigilante]

[ comes in a little later, quiet but not depressed ]

[zeroics]

Hey.

[evervigilante]

Hey old man.

[zeroics]

You shouldn't have used that on me.

[evervigilante]

[ shrugs ]

Probably not.

[zeroics]

It's not like I don't get why. But it wasn't going to help anything, either.

[evervigilante]

I know. I didn't do it simply because it would have saved you. But I was hardly going to stand back with one black band while you ran off with two.

I hate getting left behind.

[zeroics]

[SIGHS]

You know it's not a contest, not with this kind of thing. What if we could have used someone better off than me by the end of this?

[evervigilante]

I never said it was. But either we're in this together or we're not. I'm not going to walk away if someone else could. Simple as that.

/2

[zeroics]

Right.

[he can't argue with that. he would have done the same thing, and he knows it. but if they keep losing their cool, things will slide to a point where they may cause more harm than anything else.]

[zeroics]

--you're lucky we stayed out there longer, because I was really going to let you have it.

[evervigilante]

I know, I was shuddering from fear.

[zeroics]

You should be. I scare off zombies with this voice.

[ha ha haaaah.]

[evervigilante]

I was there, old man.

[zeroics]

I do remember.

[one of the few, like all the other questions he got.]

[evervigilante]

I'm surprised you haven't said anything about my questions.

[zeroics]

Why would I? I knew the answers to two of them.

[evervigilante]

So does the rest of the place now.

[ he won't admit it, but their reactions did get to him ]

[zeroics]

Yeah. I got off easy, really. What's she playing at, dumping everyone's stuff into the open like this?

[between Gladis's and the one with Kaito, it really gave him a bad taste.]

[evervigilante]

Probably to watch us squirm.

[zeroics]

Well, we'll just have to not give her the satisfaction.

[easy for you to say Dandy, your secret was whacking doctors with keyboards.]

[evervigilante]

She probably got some anyway. There's no way to fully prevent things.

[zeroics]

There isn't. But there are other teams still to go. We need to be ready to do what we can.

[even though they're both outta guesses.]

[evervigilante]

And we will. No one's stopping.