Not Again! With Lili

[shortforever]

SHITPOST TO COME LATER

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Week 5, post-trial

[shortforever]

[He is absolutely tracking her down! Time to find her in the kitchen.]

Lili.

[coastal]

[yup! kitchen. she's cooking. she looks like hell, but hey - that's been the case all day.

when chuuya approaches, she gives him a glance.

and then continues.]

What.

[shortforever]

I'm so fucking sorry.

[Let's. Start there at least.]

[coastal]

[she

turns her head to stare at him.]

Did you vote for him.

[shortforever]

No, I didn't.

[coastal]

[ . . . . . it's not so much that her anger defuses but - ]

.... you could always be lying to me and I'd never know.

[back to cooking she goes.]

That's just what this place is like.

[shortforever]

I don't lie to my friends.

[A pause, and then he continues.]

I think I figured out who the killer is, but I couldn't vote for them. So I voted for Magnus instead. He said we should vote based on previous murders, and we know he killed someone last week. So, I went with it.

[coastal]

[ . . . are they friends?

normally that would set her off into a flustered daze - but today it's so hard to feel much of anything.

especially when he continues.]

.... and so?

Who do you think it is?

[shortforever]

You're not gonna be happy with me if I say it.

[He's not saying that he won't say it, just that she won't like his answer.]

[coastal]

Do I look like anything's going to make me happy today?

[so why not?

more fuel to the fire.]

[shortforever]

Not really, no.

[Ttttttime to risk tanking his CR, then.]

I think it was Flayn.

[coastal]

[she doesn't seem to flinch at that

even if her response takes a beat longer.]

... reasoning?

[shortforever]

Dimitri didn't fight. He had tea with someone, laid down, and let them kill him.

They're both from the island, yeah? So they have a history together, meaning he would trust her. And even besides that, I can't think of anyone more agreeable here than Flayn.

[coastal]

[ . . . . . ]

I thought that too.

[it's probably why she's not holding it against chuuya.]

But with what weapon? How would she transfer the injury or heal it? That's not her power, and she didn't have an item that could do that.

[shortforever]

[HE. Gets a pained look for a second, and then he looks away.]

There's probably at least two people involved. Because, you know, the pawprint.

[coastal]

... her power is neither the pawprint, nor the injury transfer.

If those powers do exist, and they are the ones involved - then they're the ones outside of my information circle.

[ . . . . and so.]

Makes you wonder what good knowing does, in a place like this.

[when it means she can't stop anything, when it matters.]

[shortforever]

Knowing only matters if you plan on killing someone on the down-low. If you're going to do things with the group, it's about who you know and how good you are at talking to people. But that puts people like you and me at a disadvantage.

[coastal]

[ . . . . she just scowls at that.]

What's the point of any of this then - why did I even expect there to be one....!!

[she knows just as much as anyone else that these rules are bullshit - but god, she just wanted to avoid a tie, and barring that, she wanted to avoid it being anyone innocent.

and then look at what happened.]

[shortforever]

The point is to make us suffer.

[Because yeah, they know that now.]

If we suffer enough, something happens to the pink thing, and then the game ends. Or whatever. I'm still not sold on the fact that we should be aiding it.

[coastal]

.... suffer, is it.

[well, she feels like she can satisfy that void all on her own at this point.]

No matter how it arrives, I'll destroy it. I'll burn this entire place down if I have to.

[shortforever]

[He nods.]

I'll help you destroy it too.

[coastal]

[ . . . . she's quiet for a bit, and she admits - ]

I probably feel gratitude for that, somewhere between all the fury.

[shortforever]

That's fine, you can express that gratitude later. Let's work on the fury first, yeah?

[coastal]

[there sure is a lot of that to work through.]

... there's plenty of that to spare.

[amongst. everything else that she's feeling - but anger is reliable. she wears it familiarly.]

Some people here are such - fools.

[shortforever]

You won't see me arguing with you there. How spiteful does someone have to be to pass up voting for someone actively volunteering in order to justify their anger?