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]

[Elsa won't lie, she gets sucked into her own problems and her own emotions a lot, and it can definitely hurt her interactions with others. But when those others are children younger than her? Even if just by a few years, those same feelings that drive her to protect her sister and keep her happy kick in hard.

She can't stop her voice from wavering or her hands from shaking slightly, but she'll still reach out to the other Anna. Not quite touching her but ready to offer it if she needs it.]

O-Okay... okay. I'll investigate it, if you want me to. Do you want to get out of here first?

[There's not much she can do considering all of the areas that seem to be affected by this murder, but. She needs to see if she can help somehow...]

[outsidethecircle]

I'll stay but... thank you...

[She really doesn't want to go out into the public where they can see her crying. There's blood and things in here but there's no body. She... she can handle that. It'll be a while before the hallway clears so she can go back to her room, after all.]

[defyingfrigidity]

Okay. If you... if you want to leave, if you don't want to be alone when you do, I'll go with you. Will that be all right?

[Even as she says this, she'll go over to where Anna was investigating. It doesn't look like she missed anything, but Elsa will take it all in, commit it to memory. The host said something about a trial, and every little bit of knowledge has to be useful somehow...]

[outsidethecircle]

Y-yes, that'll be fine.

[She's holding the piece of cloth tightly. This is going to suck.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[When she glances back as Anna responds, she notices the scrap in her hands.]

Ah... did you find that in here?

[outsidethecircle]

[She forces a nod.]

It was in the sink.

[defyingfrigidity]

We should probably hold onto it. This... this might be very important.

[She tries to smile for Anna, and this time, she does put her hand on the girl's shoulder. It's light, though, so that Anna can shake her off if she wanted to.]

You might have found a key clue as to who did this.

[outsidethecircle]

I hope we'll be able to find out who did.

[For once, she doesn't shake it off. Not now.]