Week 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Two more people died this week. Two children. And they died because of a freak accident. Despite all your protests, Randall refused to let Jane get away despite being innocent.

But there is a tiny ray of hope now, which comes in the form of the mirror. Now that the mirror is public information, you can see people you care about, even if they are dead and trapped in hell. Not only that, but you now now that someone is trying to save you all from the predicament that you're in. And this time there's a good chance that he won't turn out to be a heartless mass murderer!

Still, the ideas for the plan are vague and you have no idea when you will actually get out. It's hard to keep up hope when your only chance of living might still end with you horribly killed, isn't it?

At least you have a new floor and the ability to wash your clothes now.

26 guests remain.]

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Comments

[pinkflip]

I... I don't know. Maybe he has some kind device. A wand, or something, that he can use to observe us. I know... Back home, that's what our enemies seemed to do. They always knew just when to show up to mess with our days.

[upgradeit]

You mean a magic wand like . . . [He trails off awkwardly. Yikes???] I was talking with Louis earlier and he mentioned that Randall might be more powerful than Facilier was so if he had something like that I guess it would explain a lot.

[pinkflip]

He's definitely more powerful. It's... [ She looks up and snaps. ] It probably has something to do with those things he stole from that Disney guy. They make him super powerful. If...we knew where he kept them, hypothetically, maybe...maybe any of us could be strong enough to get us out of here.

[upgradeit]

Oh, what you were talking with that other guy about? [Hiro frowns, pausing in what he was sketching in to tap his pencil on the paper nervously.] Do you even think he would keep that kind of thing here, rather than wherever "headquarters" is?

[pinkflip]

[ She nods, to the first question, and then thinks for a moment. ]

I definitely think he'd keep it somewhere safer. But it makes the most sense, doesn't it? Rod said those things are like...super-powered. That's probably why he can jump in and out of here, and see so much. Right?

[upgradeit]

I wonder if he has something like the mirror of his own. [It's basically a mirror-webcam so.] That can't be the only device like that, even if it seems to be able to connect to things besides mirrors.

[pinkflip]

What're you thinking, Hiro? [ Because, he has to have some kind of plan bouncing around. ] What's going on in that smart head of yours?

[upgradeit]

Do you think that thing works like a regular phone? [Like, he knows it'll show people, but can it also locate objects?] We know it can call people, but if you . . . if you asked it to show you something rather than someone . . . maybe we could find something out that way.

[pinkflip]

Oh... I don't know. We could ask Beast. Even if it does show the location, though...would we be able to tell just where that is, if it's outside the manor?

[upgradeit]

Maybe not, but we're not the only ones watching.

[The others, the ones looking for them . . . They're watching too, and if they're half as knowledgeable as that Rod guy made them seem? He bets that they'll know.]

[pinkflip]

[ Huh. That's...true. Kim leaves her desk and goes over to ruffle Hiro's hair. ]

Thinking from many different angles...oh, Billy would love to talk to you. Smart thinking, Hiro.

[upgradeit]

Tadashi was always saying sometimes you just need a new angle.

[He's still talking about Tadashi in the past tense because he's come to the conclusion that even if a Tadashi is alive, his Tadashi is definitely dead. That's the thing he's been ruminating over since last week's party: even if Tadashi wasn't a fake, was he the right Tadashi? Did that really matter, in the grand scheme of things?

He doesn't know the answer yet.]

[pinkflip]

[ Kim gives him a slightly concerned look. ]

How are you doing with that, by the way? Tadashi. [ Between mentioning him at the meeting and the last week's events... ] Everything's been so busy that it's been hard to check in.

[upgradeit]

It's . . . fine. It was weird talking to him again, but that's not really his fault? I mean -

[He didn't even remember dying.]

- it's just . . . been a while and a lot of things have happened.

[pinkflip]

As soon as you start to...come to terms with anything, here he is, huh?

[ Oh, Hiro. Here comes Kim, she's just going to. Move a little closer so she can put an arm around his shoulder. ]

You don't have to know how to feel immediately, you know that, right?

[upgradeit]

I know. [Hiro smiles at Kim.] But it's - I definitely wish these weren't the circumstances we talked again in.

[pinkflip]

You're going to have the opportunity to talk to him after all this...okay? I believe that.