TRIAL TWO

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TRIAL

Once again, the investigations conclude -- though they're more ponderous this time, burdened by the number and knowledge of additional deaths, and the awareness that there's limited means of dealing with them -- and once again the ducks gather everyone at the back of the JojaMart along with Makima's wagon, Adela's quiet, the pile of evidence.

Everyone trundles into the loading bay, which isn't all that much livelier than before, penned in by stacks of shelves and crating; but at least it's functional, overly well-lit and there's tea to while away the time discussing murders and mayhem.

As the loading bay door slides closed, you're left with a wagonful of evidence, a double handful of murders and the knowledge that time is ticking down -- for everyone.

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[theotherww]

Did you find the heart itself?

The fact that I even have to ask...

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[hyperbloom]

...I think Azure might've. She said there was a mess on the floor that had some muscle in it, and would've been around the right size...

[ Scrubbing her face. ]

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[theotherww]

Oh thank god--

The garden shears probably would crush it if it got past the ribcage. Ugh.

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[hyperbloom]

Ugh is right.

[ She is so tired. ]

This is too much.

[faildeus]

A vendetta against Bea-- Bibi, I mean? And not only tearing the heart out but also destroying it? Is this, uh... meant to be like some sort of metaphor?

[hyperbloom]

That's what I was wondering...

[ But what metaphor would it be? ]

...It seems too deliberate for it not to mean something.

[faildeus]

The heart... it's traditionally used for feelings, isn't it? Love and grief both.

[hyperbloom]

Yeah.

... Love, huh ...

[faildeus]

Did someone take Sora's words too close to heart or something?

[hyperbloom]

That's what I was wondering...

[moonblades]

...

Do you think it was someone who loved her?

[hyperbloom]

Maybe, but I don't know who that entails. I've never spoken to Bibi.

[driftingknight]

I can't see it as being anything else. You don't need to cut someone's heart out if all you want to do is kill them.

[faildeus]

Not to forget the state of their bodies. She was beaten up as well, likely from the struggle against her killer. Whoever did this wanted her to be alive for this.

[linearcrash]

Wouldn't her killer also be beaten up? I can't see her just... not doing anything, you know?

[faildeus]

Miss Azure said that Bibi had a chipped nail, didn't she? Maybe she was fighting back. We should check for injuries.

[linearcrash]

Not it on looking over people's bodies, yo.

[enkiboo]

That isn't a bad idea. We could find something.

[pimpplan]

More would be chipped if that was the case, wouldn't it? Seems weird that it's just the one.

[ Not that he's arguing with the check, just. Thinking out loud. ]

[hyperbloom]

Not a bad idea. But I'm not it, either.

[ She is so tired. ]

[revelate]

It's not easy tearing through a person's ribcage to get to their heart. Whoever did so was likely being driven by emotion— this was personal.

[faildeus]

Heartbreak taken to the extreme.

[driftingknight]

Heartbreak...

[...]

Could someone have confessed to her and been rejected...?

[linearcrash]

That would be whack, yo. Maybe it has to do with Amy? Lose your heart twice or something.

[theotherww]

How many people here would honestly consider the possibility? The amount of surviving teenagers is dwindling to say the least.