goalsides | MAYA;

[stop he's tired. but he gives her a half-grin when she says that because joke or not, he can't disagree.]

If it helps? My high school's usually not like this either. [u...sually.]

It makes you wonder how much influence this school really has over us and how much we can do for ourselves. If we can be controlled to walk back to our dorms, or go to trial, or fight to the death, what else can we be forced to do?

Usually...?

[ hmm ]

It's weird, cause, the whole week, we were just doing whatever... and then Thursday night, Saturday, and today.... boom. We're puppets.

Don't worry about it, we don't have people going around killing people. [then why say it???]

It's pretty weird, yeah. Why those days in particular, you think? Like the whole schedule was planned for us.

So then what happened? [ maya is alarmed by taichi!!!!! ]

You know, what's crazy is that the dorm heads and Principal Bear thinks it's so strange and unheard of. That in itself makes me feel like something is really wrong.

This isn't about that. [STOP IT'S FINE.] It didn't really have anything to do with the school, so it's different.

But I thought about that, too. Shouldn't they be more aware of stuff like this happening? But Chad said there was some kind of incident that happened years ago that called for this kind of stuff. He didn't really know the history about it though.

[ squints ] You should tell me anyway!

.... Yeah, he said the same thing to me.... ugh, it's so frustrating to argue with him. He's really convinced we're seeing things wrong, or something.

Later. [or never.]

I think it's because he doesn't know better. And if that's true, then we have an even bigger problem.

[ huffs!! ] When?

That's what I think, too. Unless we really are seeing it wrong somehow...

Later.

How can all forty-whatever of us be seeing things wrong? That doesn't make any sense either.

If it's an illusion? Or something like that. I don't know.

[ pouting at the later ]

...actually...[that's a good point. wow. he hates that.] It would have to be a really strong illusion, and even then I wouldn't expect it to stay that long.