THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND INVESTIGATION
(~SK. 10)


[It is freezing. The temperature? Who knows at this point.

Today is a day for blankets and whatever you can grab to keep yourself warm. It truly seems like there is a winter without end, and that eventually everything will wither and die, including you. So bitter. So harsh. So cruel.

It's not fair. Then again, didn't Zero say life isn't fair? Well, Zero isn't freezing his butt off. Really, it's just too cold on the ship to do much of anything outside of keeping warm. Like, say, murder.



Right? Well. There's only one way to find out. So, what are the Strangers doing as they wake up shivering on this cold, cold day, which may or may not be a Friday according to the calendar?]

Comments

[godspiousjasper]

I'd think it would be the opposite. He tried to do his best and be positive for others, but someone might have thought his outgoing, cheerful personality to be an act or that he was covering things up.

[superstylishsquid]

Seems like a stretch, but I guess some people really are that misanthropic.

Might narrow down our suspects a bit, at least. Someone who'd believe a person that friendly is faking it, or who might find the positivity grating.

[godspiousjasper]

Seems like something we should bring up at trial tomorrow, at the least.

[ He looks at everything, then back to Alastor with a sigh. ]

Would you like to go get a camera and come back to document all of this? I don't think i'd really do it that well.

[superstylishsquid]

I saw the body announcement before I came up here, so I brought one.

[He retrieves it from where it was hanging from his belt and takes a few pictures, then...sorry to Kaito's dignity, but he's going to have to pull the corpse's pants down to get a look at that leg injury.]

[strangerpeople]

[Nah, that's fair.

It's a pretty nasty injury, all things considered. Someone definitely cut the guy on the thigh.]

[superstylishsquid]

[Does it look bloody enough to be pre-death? And is there a matching gash in the pants leg?]

[strangerpeople]

[Yes and yes. Though...the gash still looks weird because pink.]

[superstylishsquid]

[Yeah, why does this human bleed bubble gum? Oh well, is the cut clean like the throat, or more jagged?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's also clean.]