week one - saturday post-trial - madoka

[arockstar]

[Newt absconds pretty much as soon as the trial is over, given that he doesn't have a reason to stick around. They did it, hooray, etc. Someone's still dead and there's more to follow, and he just wants to get out of there.

He spends some time idly wandering around the temple to clear his head, but on his way back to the hostel, he spots Madoka in the courtyard. Hm.]

Aren't you tired of this place? We've been stuck here all day.

Comments

[arockstar]

Why do you sound so unsure about that?

[He like halfway picked up what she was putting down.]

[frilly]

I just know that it's kind of hard to understand for a lot of people, that's all.

It was a bad system put in place for... A good reason.

[arockstar]

Hm. Try me. I'm pretty smart, you know. Plus I get what you mean about bad things happening for good reasons.

[frilly]

It was a system designed to gather the emotional energy from young girls. A system designed for tragedy - because that energy can be used to reduce the entropy of the universe.

[arockstar]

[Newt the scientist is just going to chew on that for a long moment. Whaaaat the fuck?]

Emotions... Uh, aren't energy?

[IS HIS FIRST POINT there's a lot to unpack here.]

Even if they were, I don't see how you could harvest that and use it to affect the universe as a whole.

[frilly]

I think we probably come from very different worlds. Or - universes, even.

[ although... ]

Well, even in mine, I think everyone would say you're right, too.