cranelike | ❀ yoo joonghyuk

(Honestly it's because he figured the two lovers would talk so he might as well???)

I can speak to them myself then.

(Easily said. Whether or not he'll be able to see is another matter,)

Something transformed the people; twisted them into the creatures they saw and the one they brought back. (The fish head.) But you know, this note doesn't mention the spectres like the other notes we've found.

(Like the ones they found in the last city and the one he showed earlier this week.)

It seems like something else.

They do not, but they describe these things are punishment for grave sins.

[ Hmm. ]

The statues in the courtyard match the angels at the tower and opera house. However, the statues here are defaced.

(Hmm...)

These are spiritual symbols. To deface them means there's usually a certain reason...

(He's thinking of past instances he's familiar with and,)

Perhaps someone didn't want them to be worshipped anymore.

Hubris lets people forsake their old comforts and havens.

[ It’s a familiar tale. ]

But not usually so violently…

There are families that have been deified and enshrined back home. When a new family takes power, it's not uncommon for them to erase everything of the old one to establish their power.

(But there's one problem with this theory:)

I don't see any signs of a new hope here.

(The page Tsurumaru found and the fish zombies makes it sound like hope was lost instead.)

That is true. I see that as a competition of egos.

[ Which is think is stupid? But people are just that way. ]

… None whatsoever. It’s desolate here. At the bottom of the sea.

Where they had some, it was lost.

(They'd believed in thier bubble and techonology until it failed them. )

There wasn't even hope for death.

The mood will only get worse tomorrow.

[ Execution in this underwater wasteland. ]

A change of environment might be nice after.

(H e h.)

… I wasn’t keen on them moving us before, but I don’t want to stay here.

[ So he’d be okay with a location change if that comes with a new week. ]

Then let's see what surprises await us.

Did you have any ideal destinations you want to see? Most people like a place by the sea, but I think we've seen enough.

[ NO MORE BEACH EPISODE. ]

No, anywhere will do. There's still much of the world I've yet to see.

(He's pretty much along for the ride.)

... A place with a beautiful garden would be nice, though.