week 7 - investigation

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 7 - investigation ♫ friday On Friday morning, the loss of the motive isn't terribly noticeable. As there were no mental effects this week, and everyone had taken their envelopes to at least destroy them, it's almost impossible to tell that something is off. Unless of course you're getting up in the wee hours. Perhaps just to go to the bathroom? Whatever your reason, though, something is noticeably wrong--the power is out. >Investigate? cast setting

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eski you personified human garbage pail

[sobowtor]

[Poland furrows her eyebrows, her fist curling around the tooth in her hand so hard she can feel the rough side digging into her skin.

She doesn't say anything.]

+1

[fourleafcleaver]

[She has ridden the best friend death denial train before!! It sucks. It sucks a lot.

Her voice is very slight, calm and careful in a way that's decidedly unlike her.] I'm sorry, Urashima.

[minogame]

You're wrong.

( Again, it's quiet, but there's an edge to it. And anyone who'd seen Urashima the night Mikazuki died will immediately recognizing the same signs from that night. Eyes that stare straight ahead-- in this case, at Poland-- but not quite seeing as if he's caught in a daze. It doesn't feel real and he's waiting for Poland to say she's just kidding but she never does. Instead, she's silent and he opens his mouth to yell at her to say something, )

You're wrong...? You're wrong, you're wrong...! ( There's no fire to run into this time, no one to try to save, and his hands reach up towards his head, holding his face, a look of absolute disbelief on his features, ) You're wrong!

( Fingers begin to wrap around locks of hair and he begins to pull at them. As if in slow motion, he falls down to his knees on the lobby's floor and looks down at the ground, eyes searching frantically as he tries to find something. Proof that this isn't real. Something to explain this. )

He's okay! He's not--! ( "Dead." He can't even say it. On his shoulder, the ever present Kamekichi's tail bristles anxiously, head raised up towards Urashima's face. ) He promised...!

He promised, he... promised...

( And his hands leave his face, crossing over to his chest, holding himself. There's that feeling again. The one he'd never felt before coming to this place. The one that he really hurts and makes him feel like he'd going to break right down the middle. )

[sobowtor]

[Poland looks away, staring at a wall. She's trying to block out Urashima's talking. She doesn't want to answer him.

Because she's not wrong. She's not. She saw Gilbert's decapitated head, sitting on a record player. It's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. But she's not wrong.

Poland's fist clenches tighter at her side and the tooth is stabbing into her hand now. Gilbert's dead. He's dead. It's not fair. This place isn't fair--]

...

[Poland can't help the tears rolling down her cheeks or the unseemly noises she makes trying to choke them back.]

[minogame]

( Everything is really wrong. Alisha and Gilbert are dead and that shouldn't be. Urashima doesn't even notice that Poland is crying-- he doesn't look up and right now, the only sound he can hear is the blood rushing through his own ears. Everything sounds like he's under water, distorted and muffled at first. And finally, there's some moment of clarity where suddenly he can hear everything-- Poland's crying, the lack of an actual, spoken answer and he knows. This is really happening, isn it?

And he lets out a loud, broken scream. )

[fourleafcleaver]

[She has nothing for this. She's lived it and she doesn't know what she wanted anyone to say for her then, either, she just wanted it fixed, and no one could fix it for her and she can't fix it for Urashima and it isn't fair. It's not fair to any of them.

Instead of continuing to hover awkwardly between these two, she moves to take a seat on the floor beside Urashima. Except she isn't sure what the next step is so now she's just sitting awkwardly.

It probably won't help any, but maybe it's better to at least just be here.]

[minogame]

( The two of them are like a cycle of being unsure of how to help or unable to do anything to really help the other. It's cool, Clover, he'll understand. He already understands. He's understood for a long time now and eventually the scream becomes hoarse and turns into tearful sobs. )