THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE THIRD INVESTIGATION

[It is very early. Very, very early. It's still night, even. Most are probably still asleep.

They will not be asleep for long.

Not after the screaming suddenly starts coming from the voices outside their doors, if they are in the apartment car, in their rooms.]

Oh god oh god oh god-

B____R! FOOT IN MY MOUTH INDEED!

[And certainly not after the big

BOOM

That suddenly rocks the train. There is screeching, moaning, and a flash of great darkness. Everyone, for a moment, is blinded by blackness. There are shouts and screams that echo, no matter where one is. Smoke and begins to fill the hall of the apartment car.

Whatever has happened-it's bad. It's very bad.

And the darkness is starting to clear up...]

Comments

[charmingheroine]

[Hi, King, Charlotte is just... sort of gracelessly crumpling on the floor next to you now.

No words, just... ever seen someone drop a marionette so the strings all tangle? Yeah, she's close to that level of limp with unsettlingly angled limbs. Hasn't fainted, but... looks like it was a near thing.]

[unwittingking]

Damn it, damn it...

[Two kids are dead and he could do nothing to save them...

He almost doesn’t notice Charlotte, so caught up in his whirlwind of self-deprecation. Key word being almost. He glances over at her and slowly gets to her side, hugging her.]

We’ll...we’ll figure this out. I promise. We will get justice for them.

[Half of him is trying to comfort her, while the other half is trying to convince himself. He hates this, God he hates this.]

[charmingheroine]

Does "Justice" even exist someplace like this?

[She's hugging him back as though she's not sure he'll stay real when she lets go. Her voice, while muffled and tiny, is oddly steady given that. Steady and exhausted and bleak. (Oh my.)]

[unwittingking]

I...I don't know, but it doesn't matter. We'll figure it out. We will get justice.

The kind we know of.

[His own voice is sort of similar. Like he's about to scream, but also reassuring. Stressed, but soothing.

They're going to figure this out. No matter what.]