speaking of against the law - who wants to talk about murders?

[samuraiwomen]

Who: :3
What: Discussing the murders of 9/12 and 9/17
When: 9/18, Evening after all classes and clubs.
Where: The common room of the dorms.
Warnings: Will update...but we're discussing a murder!




[ Some times the next day, Sara starts finding as many people as she can and asking them to please try to be in the dorms this evening. Everything has been chaotic since Clamor's death, and she'd like some clarity.

By sometime after clubs, she's moved Narumi's body out in the common room (perhaps with Akira's help if he was willing), and has started a fire in the fireplace. It's getting chillier at night, and any discussion of a murder mystery plot deserves some ambiance.

She forgot to go get some snacks, but please, feel free to bring some. ]

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[crystallomancy]

( well, helena's at least outlined her thought process well—sidney did some thinking too, he'll give him a prop for that too, but helena's who he's focused on now. )

You're a smart GIRL, Little Bat. Well DONE. And with our interloper taking Master Clamor's boDY, it means they would've been subjected to the same vertigo every one of us feels when we see BLOOD, making it easy to ACT. ( ah. ) Now I'm the one getting ahead of mySELF... Well, it's almost impossible for you to figure out what happened once he got there anyway, I supPOSE. Thankfully—

( his hand slides down to join subaru's hidden one, but it stops just at his wrist; subaru can probably tell what's going to happen next as his grip tightens, and he pulls it up to reveal the bandaged hand. )

—we have someone who can fill in those deTAILS, considering he decided to take a trip on his OWN. ( he smiles at subaru, the same too-bright one he'd worn yesterday morning. ) Baru-kun, if you WOULD?

[starrypoint]

[subaru does realize what's going on when he feels natsume's slender fingers stop and grip his wrist, and he shrinks hard against the couch at natsume's follow-up words.]

... Right, uh. So. After I left the nurse's place... I went up to the fourth floor, to the hallway on that side. I... kinda got the feeling that Ama-chan had something to do with the other school, 'cause we've talked about it a bit a couple days before and the blood and stuff that Lena said.

So I went.

[how's he follow this up... um. oh.]

To be honest, I thought it was a total bust, because I figured it'd be burned from fire up there... None of the candles or circles or anything like that was there, and it really is disorientating. Like sitting up from being half-asleep really quickly.

When we were talking to Ama-chan though, he mentioned that the fire'd been too close for comfort... The regular hallway didn't have any marks like that, but the other school's was bad. The imposter'd attacked him with fire spells, like the ones in Clamor-san's book, and... the reason that Ama-chan was totally fine after, besides his tiredness, is 'cause everything goes back to the way it was when you entered it.

[which he learned with. anyway he's not gonna go into that. subaru curls his held up fingers a bit, wondering if he'd have to go back to the nurse's office and sleep against the door instead of the floor.]

That's why Clamor-san's body didn't have any injuries that looked like it could've done the imposter in. Uh, the fall damage was after they got back to our side though.

[a beat, and then he continues]

The imposter didn't do very well at hiding who they weren't though, once they were caught. They totally blew their act immediately, and that's why Ama-chan did what he had to do.

[silentabyss]

[It might be obvious by the way Noah's expression shifts from something sad and forlorn to a sickening rage that he's, erm, thinking about vengeance again. Don't mind him, dots are connecting, he'll be fine... one day.]

[starrypoint]

[YEAH YOU'RE WHO HE'S WORRIED ABOUT he keeps glancing at noah to check on him.]

[crystallomancy]

( it's a natural reaction—it's one he'd seen firsthand with rika too, and he knows what it means, and natsume lowers subaru's hand between them again. )

...Ebalon-kun, bear in mind it wasn't Master Clamor that Amami-kun did this TO. The real perpetrator—the one who abused Master's TRUST, who took advantage of him and used his magic for ill—has already faced the muSIC. I...

( he pauses pulling his hand back from subaru's wrist to lay it in his lap again. )

I'm upset TOO, but the circumstances are no different than if Sena-senpai had killed me while I was possessed by Sato-chan's FEAR. ( he hadn't been himself; and clamor, in that moment, haven't been himself, either. ) I won't tell you you can't be angry or upset with Amami-kun, or with how things have turned out—you're allowed to BE... but I do ask that you think about it when your mind has cleared a little and try not to completely eviscerate HIM.

( and hey, at least amami did it in self-defense and in defense of another, and didn't preemptively kill anyone to save his own skin. natsume, a little bitter and petty, thinks that must win him at least half a point with the peanut gallery. )

[silentabyss]

[Called out for his revenge complex... but, no, yeah, Natsume is right.]

Right. I know.

[It's a muttered, bitter-sounding comment, but he knows better. Most of his ire is directed at the fact that vengeance should've been his to take; killing someone who's inhabiting the body of someone dear to him isn't a dealbreaker. Noah's always been willing to strike the killing blow.]

...I won't do anything to Amami. It's fine.

[He has fairly high opinions of Amami anyway, even if they're a bit soured right now.]

[crystallomancy]

( ...good. natsume relaxes back a bit, exhaling slowly. )

That does still put forth the query of where our missing souls ARE, but the little lamb is right that the tree holds those who have passed ON... It's possible they could be THERE.

( how would they rescue them? ...is there a way? ... )

That's something we might have to explore at a later TIME... Not much laTER, ( for clarification, ) but until we understand more about how lost souls work HERE, there's not much we can DO.