shiftingwinds | [7rings] catchall for grace

That's the idea, yes.

[honestly, she could probably get away with drinking today, but. better safe than sorry.]

What brings you here?

Restlessness? [ she shrugs. she did not think that much about it ] I wander around a lot. It's... this place is kind of small?

[ the train is infinite, and it's very odd to be stuck somewhere... not. ]

It is, isn't it?

[anyway, she pours her a cup of tea, then slides it over to her. it's mint.]

...here, have some of this. It's soothing.

[ can't believe sqx is poisoning grace on a sunday, wow. she sits down before taking the tea ]

Is that what you came here for? To... soothe?

[ that's not how that word works ]

[she nods, taking a sip of her tea]

I want to go and check on people, later, but I'll be of more help if I'm calm. So...

I get it. The whole thing was... a lot. [ she's not sure how else to describe it so she takes a sip of her tea. ]

It... certainly was.

[endorsi might have had the right idea, honestly - but shi qingxuan couldn't bring herself to leave, given that fukuda was only in there because of the votes.]

And we're still not any closer to finding any of the other killers.

[ sighs. drinks! her tea! annoyed!! ]

It felt like we were getting close, though. At the trial.

You think so? [ tell her your theories sqx wow ]

...well, it's just. What Mollymauk and Gu Yun were saying about Fukuda, it made sense! We know now that it wasn't right, but...

[at the time it had finally seemed like it did, between his behavior and the way steven's head being bashed in would have covered up any distinctive drilling.]

Honestly? I didn't think he was clever enough to do any kind of cover up or lying.

[ ruthlessly, about a dead man. ]

[don't laugh at a dead man don't laugh at a dead man

she manages not to laugh at a dead man.]

It's easy to act dumber than you are - I'll admit, there were times when I thought just how... dense he could be had to be an act.

You'd think so, right? But if that was the case, I don't think he'd have been so obvious about liking our killers, like Grell and the robot.

[ also, he drilled a hole in his own head, but grace was trying very hard not to judge him by the giant hole in his head before learning the details of it ]

That's true...

[mmmgh.]

But, he wasn't the only one with hand and feet in the sizes that we were looking for - he was just the one whose hands and feet fit and whose behavior seemed most suspicious. So that's somewhere to start, at least, if we intend to pursue this still.

[she feels like it's highly relevant to know who among them has been killing.]

Hands might work, but with feet... between Ming Yi's boots and the clown shoes, can we really use any of that?

...I think we might. The clown shoes - if whoever was wearing them had feet that were too small, they'd just slip out of them, right? They wouldn't have been able to wear them well enough to leave a clean print. You'd probably see skidding, or their actual footprint somewhere if it just came off.

So I still feel like the feet would have to be a certain size to see what was left behind.

We didn't have time to check the actual size of the clown shoes, though, right? They come in different sizes on the inside but are huge on the outside, isn't it?

[ let's pretend grace knows clowns enough to know this ]

They do?

[shi qingxuan does not know shit about clowns, my dude.]

[ turns out i wasn't quite right so: ]

I have no idea. I've never met a real clown.

[douman is right there]

Are they only in... circuses, like the one here?

Sort of. Some kids get them for their birthday parties, but my parents weren't really into the idea.

[ very dismissive in tone ]

And that's... entertaining?

[the circus just seems creepy to her.]

Yes? [ unsure. she's not a fan of clowns she's A Grown Up ] They do balloon animals? I have no idea.

To each their own, I suppose...

[...]

Oh, I think White used to sell balloons. Maybe he would know about clowns?

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