THE TOWN SQUARE.

[atrueheroine]

[Page silently watches the church burn for a little while, once she's emerged safely from it, before turning away and heading to the town square to meet up with everyone else. It makes sense to rest here, as they did last week, after another town with another tragic story to tell.

At least that time, however, they'd all survived it unscathed.

Once she's made it over to the group, she drops her pack onto the ground and collapses next to it, staring at her feet. It's going to take a bit to...process all of that, and while she'd love to get up in front of everyone and make some kind of rousing speech, she just doesn't have it in her at the moment.

Instead, she'll look up from the stone of the square, eventually, casting her eye over everyone and saying (almost to herself)-]

...I hope everyone is all right.

[That is likely far from true, but...well. They're all alive, Wesker is dead, and that's something. She's trying her best not to look at that little tree-sculpture with the key around its neck.


OOC: Second verse, same as the first! Here's our post-event mingle post, to talk about what the hell just happened in there, lick our wounds, and beg forgiveness from...from Flower Girl. Top-level away; Page will have her own up, if you'd like to talk to her.]

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[armamenta]

Fair enough. Good luck, then.

[He's quiet for a moment before reaching to his belt to unsheathe the knife there. He flips it once and catches it easily, then presents it for Rideaux.]

Here's hoping your group is more successful than ours.

[It's a large knife with a snake carved into it; it definitely looks like it's seen some use, but it's been carefully maintained.]

[pr159]

[ ...Huh. Wasn't expecting that, and he's not entirely sure what to make of it, but he'll take it. Not like he has any objections to expanding his knife collection, and this will fill a different niche than what he has now. ]

Thanks.

[ He looks it over for a moment before carefully putting it away with his other weapons. ]

Good luck to you as well, wherever you end up.

[armamenta]

Of course.

[And with that, he returns to staring at the flames. It's not an outright dismissal - Rideaux is welcome to stay if he wants - but that's all Krauser has to say, so he falls silent.]

[pr159]

[ Rideaux isn't such a big fan of the smoldering wreckage channel himself, and there's nothing further that he feels he needs to say either.

So he'll just give a slight nod and continue on his way. ]