verminous | anise [spacecoast]

[ she blinks and seems to snap out of wherever her mind had wandered off to. and then she nods. ]

Yeah... I was just really shocked.

I mean, I know this stuff could happen to any of us, but Margaret...

...I get it. I wouldn't have figured it'd be her, either.

[a little shake of his head.]

At least it sounded like-- she didn't go afraid.

Right...

She always seemed kind of unshakeable. At least some part of her still was...

Yeah.

...feels like it suits her, to have that be her record. Doesn't make it all any easier, but.

Yeah... it does.

... I really want to know what happened to her. I don't know if it'll be like the other times, but... still.

[ if they're going to find an answer that's painful to face. ]

Think we gotta know, yeah. Even if it's... the same as it has been.

[well.]

Maybe especially then.

I guess we don't know what happens if we don't catch someone... if whatever caused them to act irrationally would just get worse, or...

[ ... ]

Yeah. And... we're already losing people. The last thing I wanna do is both end up losing more of us and make someone live with having done it again.

I wonder if they really would... I mean, there has to be some answer other than sacrificing them.

... And I don't know if we can be sure that every murderer was acting irrationally...

Yeah. I mean, it... feels more likely that it'll be the case at this point, somebody'd have to be pretty damn good to hide being ready to murder somebody for no reason for a month before they do it, but I think we're better off not assuming.

...not impossible for somebody to lose a fight if they were acting irrationally either, but y'know, I wouldn't count that under murder.

[ she thinks a little, hesitating... ]

... Did you talk to the Dean much?

Some. She was, uh.

[struggling to think of how to phrase this,]

Well, she was always... pretty, uh, unflappable. Like, weirdly.

[...]

Also I don't think she was actually a person.

[ she nods... ]

We talked pretty regularly, but this week... she was different.

She was-?

[ah. wuh oh.]

...how so?

Like, she was pretty withdrawn with all this memory stuff going on, but when I did run into her...

...... I kinda got the feeling she was, um... unraveling?

...so, you're... thinking she might've had something goin' on, huh.

[`aaaaaaaa`]

I know it's too early to assume anything when we haven't looked at any evidence yet, but... I think we should consider it a possibility.

...yeah. Worth keeping it in mind.

[even if it's not the case, then-- they have to consider it.]

I'd like to think if anybody had to take her out, they'd just tell us so, though...

And risk getting voted for, when nobody's been convicted and lived?

...well, I'd also like to think it wouldn't come to that. If we figured out the other one it'd be fine.

Maybe... We do kinda keep figuring things out like, at the very last minute, though...

That's half the problem-!

[bro we are going to end up kneejerk convicting someone who didn't even mclose it.]

...did you mention that suspicion to anybody else?

Edited 2024-03-23 02:30 (UTC)

Not yet. I'm not sure I wanna tell the whole ship, if it could lead to people making assumptions and missing things tomorrow...

Probably safer that way, just in case.

-just might want to, uh, also tell somebody who's actually good at working on these...

[like obviously he's going to help anise but

he's so not a detective type help him]

Hey, don't start getting down on yourself before we've even started investigating!

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