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[bonetiddies]

[No, no, she's right not to care. That was stupid and we don't need to pretend to be sad.]

Oh, good. Was it helpful?

[alteracion]

I wouldn't go that far, but it was... fun.

[ which is pretty good considering greed is a huge tsun nerd ]

[bonetiddies]

[Greed is the hugest tsun nerd, and that's why Harrow likes them so much.]

They are easy to talk to, at the least. [Wrath is just fuckin' nice.]

[alteracion]

Yeah. I talked with Pride, too. It went pretty well?

[ for a person who stabs people, anyway ]

[bonetiddies]

[She smiles a little at that.]

Really? I appreciate them, actually, but it is not what one typically hears after a first conversation.

[They can be a bit of a butthole.]

. . . I wanted to ask you something. What did Greed's power from the river task do? I always suspected you lied, which I do not fault you for whatsoever.

[alteracion]

It wasn't a lie. [ but she likes harrow, so she will expand on it with a shrug: ] It made someone experience an overindulgence of their aspect for twenty four hours. It really wasn't useful for anything except annoying someone else.

[bonetiddies]

Their own aspect, or any aspect.

[She doesn't seem put out by the lie. Instead, she scrunches up her face like she's. . . struggling to get the words out.]

I was wondering if there was any way to induce a. . . supernatural croissant hunger.

[alteracion]

Their own aspect. None of the victims were Gluttony, so...

[ but she looks tired at the croissant reminder ]

Who goes out for croissants on murder night, seriously?

[bonetiddies]

It doesn't make sense. I didn't talk to Luca very much, but he didn't seem like a stupid man.

[alteracion]

During trial, I thought the cra or bread thing might have been some sort of code for someone, but... No one got it, so obviously not.

[bonetiddies]

If he wrote "Grace" and you erased it into a confusing bread message instead of erasing it entirely, would you tell me? It would come as a relief.

[She's joking, but. God.]

[alteracion]

Ha. [ but even though she rolls her eyes she just looks tired ] I wish I could tell you yes, but no. Even that stupid explanation probably isn't stupid enough for what actually happened.

[bonetiddies]

I hate having so little clarity. I'm rather convinced, in retrospect, that Vlad did kill Steven, and by mistake came upon Luca's murder while doing the deed.

But the events leading to Luca's death are incomprehensible to me.

[alteracion]

Vlad killing Steven makes the most sense. He had easy access to the shovel and Ming Yi's boots. Not to mention the blood on those only matches with Steven. But how those got back where we found them... did Luca's killer do it? It doesn't make any sense.

[bonetiddies]

I believe he put them back, but for whatever reason, put the shovel away after he had returned the boots - perhaps because the boots were bloodied.

If he was returning from the Sleep Bay, he would have been in the vicinity of Luca's death.

[alteracion]

[ grace makes a face because that's stupid, but also she believes vlad would be that stupid in his murder, so she doesn't think being stupid means anything. ]

So whoever killed Luca killed Vlad too, and they were wearing the clown shoes and took a bath in the hot tub to wash off the blood. And probably went into the med bay to heal, since someone walked into the med bay?

[bonetiddies]

Yes. The med bay makes things so convenient, doesn't it? And yet we are all still asked to remove our clothing.

[alteracion]

And no one ever knows what they're looking for, so they just ask about anything and everything.

[bonetiddies]

Mm.

[She's - embarrassed, about having a little meltdown, but - ]

We have never learned anything from it because there are too many possible excuses for an injury, too many ways to hide, and too many indications - hurt or not hurt enough.

It is such a pointless exercise.

[alteracion]

[ grace herself didn't throw a tantrum, but she did get snappy with eleanor, so. she gets it. ]

Despair seemed to be implying otherwise, which means we're never going to stop doing it even though there's no actual plan on what to do with any of that info except talk about each other's sex lives.

[bonetiddies]

Despair says many things, and not all of them need be paid any mind.

[alteracion]

Ha. You don't like them much?

[bonetiddies]

Ah.

[She glances at little friend carrying the sword.]

No, that isn't it. I find their company quite acceptable. But they do not know everything.

[alteracion]

[ she looks at it but doesn't. ask. ]

They do know more than us on the murder part, unfortunately.

[bonetiddies]

[She sighs.]

I've spent a lot of time talking to your Avatar about it. Trying to understand what we're missing. What keeps coming up in our conversations is the question of motive. I don't know what is meant by this, precisely, I'm sorry to say.