[She's grateful for that. She still has trouble going to this island.
It's no surprise, but when they get to the home biome it opens up on her home island again. But this time, instead of wandering the streets, she goes right to the spot she had carefully avoided last time: the graveyard. It's a normal graveyard for the most part, but most of the graves have a death year of 79. Including a bunch of people with the last name 'Hotakainen'.
She stops near two graves that say 'Juha Hotakainen' and 'Anne-Mari Hotakainen' and crouches down. Next to Juha's headstone is Tuuri's own, with the dates 69-91.]
[There are so many names with the death year of 79. Just rows and rows of them. Nearly a hundred at a glance. And Tuuri's headstone is the only one with a death date after year 79.
She's quiet for a long time as she watches the headstones in front of her. She's mulling over her words, thinking of the right thing to say. But eventually she starts to speak quietly to the stones in front of her:]
I'm going to be gone for a long, long time. But we'll see each other again someday, you know that.
...Onni and Lalli can look after each other. They would have had to anyway, if things continued the way they went originally. They'll...they'll make it. I know they will.
So I'm going to do my own thing now. And when we meet again, I'll have someone special with me and a lifetime's worth of stories to tell.
Thank you for everything. Mom, Dad. ... Hyvästi.
[She stands up then, but she's sniffling a little as she does.]
It gets harder to hold that silence when he realizes what she's saying, what all of this means. But he stays as he is, simply watching over her until she's finished. It's only when she stands again that he reaches out a hand to touch her arm.]
[She reaches over with her other hand to cover his. When she looks at him, it's with a smile.]
Everyone in this village died because of one mistake. One infected person got in, and everyone died. And I've lived with that fear for my entire life. That one little mistake will kill me and everyone I love.
I don't want to live like that anymore. I want my children to grow up never knowing the kinds of things that still haunt my nightmares. I never want them to be treated like a burden for not being immune.
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Date: 2023-04-02 03:05 am (UTC)of course, he's coming with her. to the ferry, to the animal kingdom island, and up to the biome.]
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Date: 2023-04-02 03:15 am (UTC)It's no surprise, but when they get to the home biome it opens up on her home island again. But this time, instead of wandering the streets, she goes right to the spot she had carefully avoided last time: the graveyard. It's a normal graveyard for the most part, but most of the graves have a death year of 79. Including a bunch of people with the last name 'Hotakainen'.
She stops near two graves that say 'Juha Hotakainen' and 'Anne-Mari Hotakainen' and crouches down. Next to Juha's headstone is Tuuri's own, with the dates 69-91.]
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Date: 2023-04-02 03:21 am (UTC)when she stops to crouch down, he does too, his gaze fixed on that last headstone. tuuri's.]
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Date: 2023-04-02 03:32 am (UTC)She's quiet for a long time as she watches the headstones in front of her. She's mulling over her words, thinking of the right thing to say. But eventually she starts to speak quietly to the stones in front of her:]
I'm going to be gone for a long, long time. But we'll see each other again someday, you know that.
...Onni and Lalli can look after each other. They would have had to anyway, if things continued the way they went originally. They'll...they'll make it. I know they will.
So I'm going to do my own thing now. And when we meet again, I'll have someone special with me and a lifetime's worth of stories to tell.
Thank you for everything. Mom, Dad. ... Hyvästi.
[She stands up then, but she's sniffling a little as she does.]
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Date: 2023-04-02 03:50 am (UTC)It gets harder to hold that silence when he realizes what she's saying, what all of this means. But he stays as he is, simply watching over her until she's finished. It's only when she stands again that he reaches out a hand to touch her arm.]
Tuuri...
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Date: 2023-04-02 04:10 am (UTC)Everyone in this village died because of one mistake. One infected person got in, and everyone died. And I've lived with that fear for my entire life. That one little mistake will kill me and everyone I love.
I don't want to live like that anymore. I want my children to grow up never knowing the kinds of things that still haunt my nightmares. I never want them to be treated like a burden for not being immune.
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Date: 2023-04-02 04:37 am (UTC)[He's not sure what else to say, in the face of such an immense tragedy... of her fears that it could be repeated at any time.]
If that's what you want, then...
I promise. They won't.
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Date: 2023-04-02 05:06 am (UTC)[She'll take his hand in her own.]
Adventure can be found in any world, I think.