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[The Crossing is coming again.

There is no advance warning from The Ferryman this time. There is nothing to draw your attention towards the message that appears on your device, whatever it may be, except perhaps the expectation that it should be appearing soon.

Whether you think to check for it or you simply stumble upon it, the words are there just as before:]

A toll to be levied for safe passage
from the desert to ǝɹǝɥʍǝsʅǝ

envision a place of comfort and safety
a haven from the wants and ills of life
be it for a moment or for a lifetime

offer it to The Ferryman
and let go

Comments

[solitarynote]

[See, it wasn’t just the mental preparedness that would be needed for a regular person to put off breathing underwater - even if it wasn’t necessary anymore. Sunny himself had too many bad experiences.

And even if he had been able to convince himself to jump in the deep pond back home, to put a friend before himself, the way the light slowly left the water and was replaced by dark strands that could drag him down…]

I can’t. You can.

[Wait, he should probably erase that, right? He didn’t want Nagito to think Sunny was using him or something! Except for the fact that he couldn’t take the words back.]

Water is scary. [As if that explained the whole story.]

[blindluck]

[Huh, so Sunny is afraid of water? That's worth making note of.] I suppose if nobody else is going to try it I can. There's less for me to worry about now that I'm dead.

[solitarynote]

[Wait, but wasn’t that sort of thinking how Nagito had gotten lost in the desert in the first place? Then Makoto would get upset again… Sunny really couldn’t stop him though.]

OK. Bring someone with you. Just in case.

[Sorry Nagito, Sunny wouldn’t be volunteering to be a spotter on this little quest.]

[blindluck]

[Nagito doesn't reply to this, because if he stops the conversation here, that means he isn't technically lying when he absolutely does this by himself.]

Wrapped! (Not here but…)

[solitarynote]

[There may or may not be no small amount of panic on Sunny’s part over not receiving a reply…]