FOURTH TRIAL

[beautifultomorrow]

[The usual scene plays of everyone going into the elevator after they finish up investigation. But when the elevator starts moving, they will hear John’s voice instead of The Narrator’s. It clearly sounds like he’s reading from some sort of script.]

Picture of Belle, a book lover born well before her time. She desperately wanted society to treat her like a human being, and to respect her love of books. Belle had made many friends and many enemies because of her personality, and now… Her final resting place will be in a book simply titled… The Twilight Zone.

[... Strangely, however, the elevator doesn’t drop this time, the doors instead open as soon as John finishes his speech, leading once again to The Tip Top Club. Now Reyna and Belle’s pictures are in grayscale and, instead of Rod sitting on stage, John is there, looking at some papers. He offers the guests a comforting smile when they enter.]

I shouldn’t complain that Rod’s doing something creative with his time, but I have to admit, I don’t get what he sees appealing about writing something like this. Don’t know why he had the elevator set to “ride” mode either.

I, uh...made some old fashioned lemonade for you guys. [He motions to the lemonade pitcher and cups on the counter.] Feel free to help yourself.

[He’s… really trying to attempt to lighten the mood of this situation. Please humor him.]

Comments

[theduck]

Magic?

[at this point he's just throwing out every possible idea but like. that's... a thing. they had Merlin here at one point, for crying out loud]

[hallotween]

... I mean, I guess. You can use magic to disguise yourself; I've seen it myself. And it wouldn't even need to be very powerful magic, to work for a little while and fool only one person.

So, that leaves... Three suspects.

[nocasetoobig]

Who?

[hallotween]

Me, Ursula, and... Blonde Girl?

[theduck]

Cornelia said she was friends with Belle, and I don't think you had any reason to kill her. But... how close was she to Ursula?

[hallotween]

... [glances nervously at Ursula]

[anasty]

She did help me with the party recently. The only one who really did, in fact.

Why would I murder someone so useful?

[hallotween]

... [shrugs helplessly

she is. incredibly not useful right now.]

[nocasetoobig]

...Ursula. What was your greatest desire?

[anasty]

[ She arches her brows... and hesitates. ]

Does it matter? Everyone was given the same incentive.

Are you suggesting I'm the only one who could kill another for that?

[nocasetoobig]

Mine was that Gadget would be with me. So if you're going to say that someone would kill over that, I don't believe you.

[CHIPMUNK GOT A CRUSH ON A MOUSE, NO SHAME HERE]

What was it?

[darnsitall]

[GAAAAAASP]

[anasty]

Not everyone thinks as small as you do!

[ Let's do this. ]

[theduck]

Because you wanted something? That was the motive this week, wasn't it? We were offered our greatest desires.

[geomanctic]

My transformation doesn't make me look like a completely different person. Belle would probably recognize me, or someone who looked like they could be my older sister.