The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

[metagame]

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust

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[emptyself]

[ soujuurou takes the slap on the shoulder with no problem, only staring owlishly at jesse.

in reality, it’s not like he really knows what balls means in this context. he knows it’s not a ball you would use in sports, which means that it had to be some sort of lingo. ]

I thought it was your slang for something like courage. Was I close?

[privatedomicile]

Spot on, yo!

[Jesse starts to stand up in order to actually get ready to fight aforementioned skeleton bitch.]

Usually you gotta go for the head on a zombie, so I’m guessing we wanna do the same to scramble fake Atem over there.

[emptyself]

The head? What’s so special about that?

[ but he looks at atem and mafuyu fighting and something swells in him, cold and hot and somewhat ugly. ]

I think I have an idea. I think you’d call it a… trick under my sleeve?

[privatedomicile]

Where the brain is, I guess. Zombie can get through anythin’ long as it’s got a brain in there.

[When Soujuurou mentions a trick up his sleeve, Jesse’s eyes light up.]

You got a plan! Now that’s what I’m talking about! … What’s the plan?