hunter

[soba]

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[counterclocked]

right

i just don't want something like last week to almost happen to her again

[soba]

... right.

It could happen to anyone, at least. People will jump at any small inconsistency in trials, even if it's nothing.

[counterclocked]

we need to get this right tomorrow

if agni is dead we're going to be fucked if we don't find the monster

[soba]

[ hm ]

If he wasn't announced then he shouldn't be, right?

[ granted maybe he's like

dying

so ]

[counterclocked]

[After a few moments:]

he probably fought a monster last night and now i can't find him anywhere

[soba]

... so if he's not dead then he might be seriously injured?

[counterclocked]

actually

okay this is going to take me a second to write out but it’s probably better if i give you the whole story

[hm]

[soba]

[ HE JUST

SITS DOWN ]

[counterclocked]

[true to his word, he takes a while to write this all out, but then he rips out the entire crayon filled page and hands it to toi.]

so after phoenix died i found this flute in his stuff. the flute could let whoever had it stay awake all through thursday night, and i trust agni a lot, so i gave it to him because he wanted to see if he could stop a monster from killing someone again

but when i woke up today i started looking around for him and he isn’t anywhere. so i bumped into akira, and akira had this medallion that can let him see an area that we normally wouldn’t be able to reach. so he asked it where agni is, and we both got this image in our head of a lot of darkness, but we could see some dirt too.

so we went to the garden and the graveyard to see whether we could find any signs of somebody having buried something, but i really think the medallion can only show us places we can’t reach. so maybe wherever he is, it’s like most of the evidence each week. we can’t see it or touch it until we go look there during the trial.

[soba]

[ well

that certainly is a lot ]

So... we'll most likely find out what happened to him tomorrow.

[ he wants to say more but he is biting his tongue ]

[counterclocked]

[He nods, but...]

but at that point he'll have in there for over an entire day if the darkness and the dirt does mean he got buried somewhere

[soba]

But think of how this place works. The entire house was on fire last week but it was contained until we found them.

Why would that suddenly change this time?

[counterclocked]

right

brilith and i made a list of places he could be so we can go there first tomorrow if the sisters can't just tell us where he is

[soba]

I don't think anyone will mind if we search those places first before we do anything else.

[counterclocked]

i could probably use the severed hand i got too

[please don't just say that without explaining anything]

[soba]

You do realize I'm going to ask what the fuck is with the severed hand, right? You might as well have already started writing an explanation.

[counterclocked]

oh

that's easier, it's supposed to point me in the right direction if i ask it a question, so as long as i'm in the first group that goes outside i should be able to ask where he is

[soba]

Use it if they don't tell us.

We already need to solve two deaths, so we really can't waste too much time getting lost finding him. We can also see if anyone else might have an item that could help.

[counterclocked]

yeah

as soon as i know whether they can tell us where he is i'm going to tell everyone and ask them to let me go with the first group

[soba]

[ he nods ]

People shouldn't argue, at least.

[ probably ]