First Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Nearly two weeks in the Haunted Mansion have passed. Parties were had, friends were made. In fact, maybe you've completely forgotten about the motive looming over all of you. However, as what might be dawn approaches the Mansion, you feel a strange feeling of dread as you wake up. Is it all in your head? There's only one way to find out.

Investigate?]

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[defyingfrigidity]

[... No. That's... no. It can't be?

Part of Elsa's brain just can't wrap around the idea that someone is dead here, that someone among them killed another over something like.... like keeping a secret? That was ridiculous! She understands the lengths some will go to in order to keep secrets, she knows that feeling very well but murder...!]

This... this can't be real...

[She hadn't talked to Karolina as often as she'd wanted to. As she should have. But she was a kind girl, how could anyone do this???]

[lessonsinlove]

[ Dragging herself out of bed was one thing she rarely did in the morning, but that biting sense of dread had woken her up. It hadn't taken her very long to head out from her room, and with minimal searching she'd decided on the kitchen. Immediately upon arriving, Elsa's the first one she spots and goes to greet her without a second thought. ]

Hey, Elsa... what's going--

[ Her voice cuts short when she sees Karolina and her eyes widened visibly. She was really... actually dead. Someone actually wanted to keep their secrets hidden that badly? ]

Why...? How could anyone do that...?

[defyingfrigidity]

[Oh no. Oh no. No no no, it had been bad enough that she had seen this, but--! God, she can't let Anna see this, so she quickly spins around, taking her sister gently by the shoulders and giving her a light push.]

Anna, no, don't look. [And to try and reinforce it, she'll step right between Anna and Karolina's body.] We... we need to get out of here, okay? We... it might be bad, if there are too many of us clustered in here...

[She's trying to be brave, but she can't. There are tears in her eyes and her voice wavers, and oh god it feels like she's gunna be sick...]

[lessonsinlove]

[ Her immediate reaction to when Elsa turned around to kinda give her that light push, and telling her not to look was to try and tell her it was alright. She could handle this.

The words never got out, however. Not when she could hear the insistence in her older sister's voice and spotted the tears welling up in her eyes to which Anna just nodded and reached out to grasp one of Elsa's hands within her own as she gave a firm nod of her head. ]

You're right. Here, let's go back to the foyer.

[ Just going to take Elsa and lead her there without looking at Karolina's body the best she was able to. ]

I... I can't believe that happened... [ Shaking her head. Just trying to focus on her sister and nothing else was almost hard to do. ] Are you going to be alright, Elsa?

[defyingfrigidity]

... I don't know.

[It's hard for her to admit that. For almost all her life she's been taught to conceal feelings like this, and even in the past year, she still fell back into that mentality sometimes. But now it's not because she had to keep every aspect of herself under control, it's just... she didn't want Anna to worry.

But there's no point in hiding it now, is there? Not when all of them have been affected like this.]

Seeing someone dead like that... someone I knew, even just briefly...