THE FIRST EXECUTION

[disregartist]

THE FIRST EXECUTION


[Given what has happened, there's hardly any deliberation, or suspense, once the clock chimes again.

One by one, the profiles on the suspect list disappear, until only one is left.]


A unanimous vote, no less.

[The Conductor stands, slipping the pardon from her vest. Without a second's hesitation, she rips it up as she crosses the garden to the center of the podiums. The paper falls to the floor in tatters.]

I shall give you a few moments to say your goodbyes to the Rose; I would suggest not interfering with the execution. In fact, I very strongly suggest against it. Getting caught in the magnetosphere we will be creating will...not end well for anyone who tries, I promise.

Oh, and-you might want to consider putting your sunglasses on. Soon. Very soon.

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[zackthekiller]

[... Now he decides to speak.]

WHAT THE GODDAMN HELL DID I JUST FUCKING WATCH?!?

[telecosmetic]

Is that what the fucking "secret weapon" is?

[charmingheroine]

Do you really think she's going to explain it to us? We're supposed to have shattered too.

Isn't that right? That's how public executions always work, isn't it? Isn't it?!

[She wants to scream until she can't speak anymore, but this shrillness is all she can muster. It's incomprehensible, even to someone who's been through Dracula's Castle. The sun? Green light, and glass, and... there is no text she's ever read that comes close to it.

Well. One might, but the Emerald Tablet is deliberately cryptic.]