??? (Round 3)

[foundationmods]

[Once the trial begins, all of the dead will feel themselves being lifted out of their bodies. For a short while, they are able to watch the proceedings, including their own bodies as they continue to move and act on their own. But eventually the area starts to grow dim, fading into an inky black nothingness.

Then glowing sakura petals will start to trail by. A path in the darkness, perhaps?

If the dead follow the petals to their source, they will eventually find an enormous sakura tree, it's large branches hanging over the area and providing shelter from the darkness outside. Here, under the sakura tree's branches, the dead will feel 'whole' again. It is as if this is where they need to be to be themselves, with no influences from the witch outside. And indeed, the very air feels heavy with magic, a single point of calm in the storm of the void.

And there, at the base of the tree, sits someone familiar.]

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[oceanicbutterfly]

[...Karen steps to the side and sits, because this conversation is going in a direction that's weird enough without Erika having a clear view up her skirt.]

No, she doesn't see any of them as competition. It's...

[Icon.]

It's actually a pride thing. She wants to be able to say none of the servants have to deal with things like that.

[very_good_end]

[not quite that far, but lying on the ground is getting old too, so she sits up.]

Whatever. I'd complain that it's not even a unique design... but then, I remembered, this dress in itself is supposed to be someone else's. [sighs]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Sighs right back.]

I'm pretty sure I've seen what Vinea wears in an anime.