shiftingwinds | [7rings] catchall for douman

I know it's a lot. It matches all the stuff we didn't figure out.

[aka, "a lot" of stuff they didn't figure out.]

Still, a "lot" shouldn't go into your body...

[THIS IS SO MUCH]

...I'm sure you won't want to be the next body we find.

I'm not going to die of this. Alcohol won't kill me.

[honey your tolerance is nerfed]

And I'd like to see someone try to kill me. [she huffs] All the victims so far have either been nonthreatening, or behaving strangely so they're not a threat! I'd like to see whoever's doing this try to have a fair fight!

...

[doubt.png?]

That is true...but it just makes it seem like the killers themselves aren't really fighters, either? Honestly, Grell was a surprise...she wasn't the type to lay down and let someone run over her.

She didn't seem that type, no... but she was behaving so differently this week.

She was. I met her in the circus earlier this week, and she was very...demure, surprisingly. But she knew what she wanted, and it wasn't as if that should have stopped her, I think...

...so then why is she dead...? Especially when she had that weapon...

[ugh]

She died where I was sleeping. I can't believe I didn't even wake up.

...That, I do not know.

[A mystery, still present, like the rest.]

That is an odd thing, yes. I do believe the sleep is magically induced, instead of something natural. Not waking up is part of the grander scheme.

...I just wish we could figure out what happened. I hate feeling like I know less than I did when we started.

The evidence is gone, now. Qingxuan. There is nothing else we can do at this moment.

[And a glance to the alcohol.]

And you will find no answers in that bottle, either.

You're right about that.

[but that

doesn't stop her from drinking from it, even if there are no answers to be found there.]

...

[They just stare for a good while, before sighing.]

Does misery want company, Qingxuan?

...I'd like it. [she just so easily accepts that she's "misery" right now. sighs.] But you don't have to stick around if you'd rather not be miserable.

This is just so frustrating.

[They just shake their head, moving to sit next to SQX at the bar.]

It is. The truth, forever out of our grasp...last week, and now this week. And even now, we simply didn't have a clue, mm.

I feel like we came out of that knowing even less than when we started...

[she sighs. heavily.]

[Murders Britt right here before she can commit her crimes I MEAN]

There, there. We were all in the same spot. Our murderers decided to make it quite hard! I still have no clue as to how a whole body up and walked away!

[me, running to the mods and iki: sorry guys we have to retcon that execution]

I don't either. That's not... it shouldn't be possible.

[YEAH YOU HEARD ME]

[There's a bit of an odd look on their face, after a moment.]

You know...the only thing I can think of is...no. That probably isn't it.

...what are you thinking?

Gluttony's portals...I wonder if they were used, somehow.

The portals? To... hide the body somehow, you mean?

Yes, perhaps? That's my only guess at the moment to where it might have completely disappeared to...

That seems a little... [she frowns softly] If we're meant to be able to identify a killer, involving the portals like that seems almost like cheating.

...but if that is the case, it must have been someone close enough to Gluttony for them to have been willing to do that favor.

That is true. Ahhh, its just a theory. I have nothing else in mind, unless someone dissolved the young man. But even then...there would be traces. There was only blood in his room.

...it just doesn't make sense. Human beings don't disappear without a trace like that when they die.

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