▌ ENTRY: week 0. monday. monika.

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[ we backdatin this bc it would make sense for this to happen immediately after the mechanics reveals, let us live

in the spirit of conducting recon, 2b gets to the dorm as soon as it's open. she quickly tracks down the room she's been assigned to. when monika decides to come check things out, 2b is standing next to the bed, the mysterious scroll containing the rules of this castle unfurled in her hand. she looks up to see the arrival of her partner, then hands the scroll to her pod and has the machine float over and bring it to the other girl. ]

Monika. Read this.

[ she is all about business, baby. ]

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[ YEAH PRETTY MUCH look it's fine no one will judge us. it's not like anyone is reading this but us two.

AAAAAANYWAY

Thankfully(??), Monika is not far behind 2B. She too wants to know what is going on here, and she wakes early each morning anyway, usually around 5 AM. So she's been up for some time when the dorms unlock, and is only a few minutes slow to beating 2B to the punch.

She doesn't even get a chance to utter a question, or say anything, before she's being issued a command. Monika blinks once or twice, and then wordlessly takes the scroll and reads it through.

Nothing remarkable happens in her expression, but her hands shake very slightly before she can steady herself. Carefully she rolls the scroll back up and is quiet for a moment, pressing loose fingers to her mouth as she thinks hard. ]

... it really is a game, [ she says, low and slow. ] Just ... some game we're playing for them.

[ Very carefully she'll set the scroll on their shared bed. Her hands tremble again. ]

They really should take us more seriously, [ she says next, and her voice is a little more brittle now. ] These are real lives they're playing with!