it’s just han

[Honeydew]: ...Now that the others are gone. Are you worried about somebody specific?

[Diazi]: What? N-No. It’s just a... hypothetical, you know?

[Honeydew]: ...If you’re worried about them finding out you said something--don’t. I wouldn’t, we wouldn’t attach your name to it.

[Diazi]: ...Hey, after the BC ends, do you think Hensley would be available to talk about those roses she grows? I’m... uh... getting interested in... floral arranging.

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[Honeydew]: Hey, Diazi. Before you leave...

[January]: Well, if that’s it, then... meeting adjourned!

[Sucre Val]: Well, you seemed pretty eager to wrap up this meeting...

[January]: Marisa and I gotta talk end-of-BC stuff.

[January]: Hey, Z, what would we do?

[Zeinaba]: Why am I the consultant for this?! This isn’t a foreign relations question!

[January]: ‘Cause you’re directly to my right, which makes you my temporary right-brain woman.

[Zeinaba]: I don’t think that’s a saying. ...Do we have any mental health professionals on the island? Maybe we should figure that out...

[January]: Yeah. Let’s keep ‘tossing people into the ocean’ as a last last last last last resort.

[Diazi]: I’ve just been thinking about... [sigh] How do we... if someone--someone who came over on the boat with us, I mean--if they, you know, fell into despair or whatever, what would we... do?

[January]: Are you... concerned about somebody specific? ... This isn’t about Van--

[Diazi]: Pfff-- I can’t even imagine that. ...But, um, no. Nobody in particular. Just a general concern.

[January]: ...Anything else?

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[January]: ‘Ey, Diazi, you haven’t said much since the meeting started. Are you just, I dunno, observing, or...

[Diazi]: Um... yep, yep, just... observing.

[January]: Alright! ... Well, if no one else has anything to bring up, I guess we can end a little earl--

[Diazi]: Wait! I-- um, I just remembered.

[Sucre Val]: Well, I’ve been wondering about our future plans. As in, when everything happening back home passes--and I have faith it will, eventually--what do we do? Do we pack up and go back to the mainland, or do we stay here?

[Amber]: I’ve been wondering the same thing!! I think it’d be super cool if we just stayed here and became our own country and... do we need a flag? Should we be thinking about designing a flag?

[January]: Hey, this seems like a foreign relations question.

[Zeinaba]: I think it sounds like a primary organizer question!!

[January]: As temporary primary organizer of this island, I’m calling it a foreign relations question.

[Zeinaba]: [sigh]... Well, I need the rest of the world to talk to me to really figure that one out. And also... there’s ruins on this island, not to mention a whole set of roads none of us built--so this place used to be part of somewhere. Can we really call it our own?

[January]: ...Basically, we’ll figure it out later. Yeah?