THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[How is everyone, this morning?

No doubt, most of you are sleeping. Perhaps you are dreaming. Whether they are dreams or nightmares are irrelevant. Hopefully, none of you are heavy sleepers. Especially not when there is a very loud BANG that suddenly permeates through the ceiling right above the bedrooms.. The force of the impact is such the rooms actually shake, sending dust onto those in their bed.

If that didn't wake someone up, then the sudden scream coming from upstairs at roughly the same time will do it, right?

In other words. Good morning, Strangers. Something is happening upstairs.

Best to check it out, and quickly.]

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[strangerpeople]

[No amount of pleading to goddesses will save him. His eyes are already glazing over beneath his frames, and with one final shudder he goes still.


Jun Ushiro, The Launcher, is dead..]

[relieable]

[after that brief scene, Osomatsu heads into the library after Arthur. he looks pale as he tries to figure out just what happened here]

Miss Emma...!

[yonosoymaria]

He trusted you. He trusted you.

[He cannot even scream.

There's no point, there'd have been no point, crushing injuries don't - there's no surviving that, but is there any chance at all of lifting that bookcase? Even if not, Eric's trying.]

[hexposition]

[Emma doesn't respond to that, aside from to pull the upper half of Jun a little closer to her as she hunches over.

She's not even making sounds anymore, just shivering with tears.]

[notadinosnack]

[Thanatos arrives and sees the scene and quickly moves to see if he can help Eric with the bookshelf. Maybe both of them can do it.]

[strangerpeople]

[It takes effort, but Eric and Thanatos manage to lift the bookcase enough to pull Jun out. He's at least in one piece.]

cw beginnings of dissociation

[yonosoymaria]

[He can't scream, he can't even talk now, it feels like he's being strangled -

You see? Everyone you care for dies, it doesn't have to be a lover, any sort of affection at all and they'll end up like this. You were a fool. It's Elizabeth, now, the voice in his head.

He can't speak. So instead Eric looks at Thanatos, eyes wide, and nods jerkily at him. Hopefully it registers as thanks. For some reason, his eyes are burning... an absent part of him knows what that means, but it is very absent. Very far away. Nothing is close at all, really. Nothing is, is it? Really?]

[notadinosnack]

[Thanatos nods back.] We need to make sure no one else gets hurt here.

[Also going to look under the shelf, there isn't another body, is there?]

[yonosoymaria]

[He does manage to make a small sound in reply, though whether it's agreement or a wordless syllable meaning "probably not gonna happen if I get too close to Millstein" is likely unclear.

It is the former, for the record. Having to understand speech has pulled him back from the brink, at least a few steps.]

[strangerpeople]

[There is no one else under the shelf.]

[incendiarize]

Emma--

What happened?

[He knows the kind of damage a bookcase can do, he can see the shelf clearly. It's strange, to know he's hallucinating but be unable to clear the illusion away.]

[hexposition]

[Sorry, Arthur's not getting a response, either.

Might want to pry her away from the body and try to calm her down before asking questions.]

[relieable]

[hm. instead of standing there uselessly, Osomatsu's going to go to her. if she did this, he doesn't know what he's going to do with himself]

Miss Emma... Please, calm down. [he'll attempt to guide her away from Jun's body]

[hexposition]

[Her immediate response, in her panic and despair, is just to cling a little tighter, as if that'll do anything at all.

Since he's closer to her, now, he might be able to hear that she is in fact making sounds, desperate whispers.]

Lux solis medicuri eum! Lux solis medicuri eum! Lux solis...!

[...Nothing's happening.

Her grip is loosening, though.]

[relieable]

[it is about that time that Osomatsu hears the Younger Steward's laughter, and he tries to ignore it, gently gripping Emma's arms and pulling her back when he can, he'll even try to hold her]

Shhh...

[hexposition]

[Little by little, Osomatsu will manage to get her to let go of Jun's body, until eventually he can lead her a little further away.

There's blood all over her torso, some staining her hands as well.

But anything else? Well, that's for investigation. ♥]