ablazement | 🔥 laudna

...This morning. As soon as there was glitter, I knew someone from the house was dead. I didn't expect it to be Kanda. [Yuffie or Kate seemed most likely.]

I don't know why all of us woke up covered in it, but it had something to do with him.

Was that something you all had with you?

Maybe to try and... leave a trail or something.

We keep a lot of arts and crafts supplies about. And the idea of using glitter as a weapon was tossed about, yes.

We can keep an eye out for glitter.

[she says, but her voice is sort of weak. like she can't force herself to really be eager to solve another murder.]

Do... do a real thorough search when it comes to the people examinations.

It feels rather pointless, doesn't it?

[she understands.]

It's necessary for our survival, but it hardly feels like justice.

It's just so much harder when you know that whoever did these probably didn't want to at all.

[she folds her arms, but it's a little more like she's hugging herself.]

I'm so tired of watching people I love lose their minds.

...Yes. Tomorrow will be just as unfortunate today, if not more so.

[carefully, she wipes her eyes with her shoulder, brushing her face against it.]

Guess we've got to have the same plan. To make sure nobody hurts anybody.

I think that's about all we can do. Ideally Gale won't antagonize them this time.

[snort.]

I can't follow him around the entire trial, the culprits get mad.

Well. Perhaps a bit of provocation is not so bad, if it gives us more certainty. So long as it isn't so much that they attack!

... D'you think it was Robin, last time? I didn't get an answer out of her because Gale was busy getting his arse handed to him.

Yes.

[firmly.]

I talked to her after. She wouldn't answer any questions directly, except one. When I asked if she'd done what she did in some way to protect Caelus, she was adamant she never would have - she would never have done anything to jeopardize us catching the right person, even if it was someone she cared for.

The poor girl is, I think, afflicted by a more gentle monster than most. But I believe she is afflicted.

[a little nod...]

Yeah. That's what I thought, too. She was hesitant around me this week. Like she thought I'd be mad.

[...]

I was really fucking mad, actually.

[... no?]