Seventh Trial

[candlelightsflicker]

[Once again the stretching room descends and the Hatbox Ghost seems impatient.]

Ugh where's that Serling guy's stupid death elevator when you need it? This is taking forever.

[But soon enough you arrive in the trial room, now with Freddie and Jyn's voodoo dolls on their podiums. And your 100% new friend Hatbox Ghost is there too!] 

If you guys don't all die next week, I'm installing the death elevator.

[TRIAL START]

Comments

[stanbyme]

[Stan thinks for a long minute.]

Huh, must have. I don't remember putting it in my room 'fore I went to bed.

[sorrydoods]

[oh thank goodness]

Okay, so...someone found the screwdriver in the gym and decided to kill Jyn with it, or make it look like she was killed with it.

[He's really not sure whether she was poisoned or stabbed at this point.]

[not_over_yet]

...Why bother stabbing her if she's already dead? That's not something one does without any reason.

[sorrydoods]

Maybe...to confuse us on what caused her to die? Leia did seem kinda convinced that those injuries were what killed her.

[It did puncture an artery, after all.]

[hasit]

I'd like to state for the record that I'm open to other possibilities. But it could indicate a cover-up...

[not_over_yet]

[ uuuugh, he doesn't want to fight about this point of all things... ]

If I'm wrong about cause of death [ def gritting his teeth on this, but ] that still leaves the issue of why she didn't bleed as expected... either way, there's something odd about this.

[hasit]

I'm not disagreeing with you, here, I just said it could be a cover-up.

[stanbyme]

Ladies, you're both pretty-

Although Leia's definitely prettier.

[hasit]

I disagree with him, he argues. I agree with him, he still argues!

[WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HER]

[stanbyme]

Know-it-alls, man, I tell ya. You try growing up with one.

[not_over_yet]

I'm in a bad mood! Just ignore anything that sounds both petty and useless!

[athleticallyinclined]

So...everything you say?

[not_over_yet]

...I was agreeing with you. [ Pinches the bridge of his muzzle cause fff-- ]

[hasit]

Fine. Great. Moving on.

[upgradeit]

[completely deadpan:]

Have you considered: they cleaned it up.

[hasit]

Thank you, Hiro. That's a possibility we haven't explored. Did anyone find evidence of a clean-up job?

[not_over_yet]

...That would also be odd. Everything about this is odd, I'm glad we all agree.

[upgradeit]

Uh, no? That's. That's what people normally do when they're trying not to get caught. Because, you know, they want to undo their regrets or whatever.

[not_over_yet]

...They did a pretty bad job of it then. There was still plenty of blood. It... hm.

[ Getting out the pipe because: 1-he feels Hiro's noticed something important, and 2-even he can recognize Basil-needs-to-stop-talking point has been reached.

Gonna smoke and pace and think instead. And not keep snapping at everyone, he's wasting too much time. ]

[athleticallyinclined]

[ Rounds on Hiro. ]

You seem to know a lot about this.

Were you trying not to get caught?

[upgradeit]

I tried to stab you in front of like ten people. If I was trying not to get caught, I wouldn't have stabbed someone.

[sorrydoods]

Why would they only clean up some of the blood, though? Wouldn't really do much to help, would it?

[upgradeit]

As Basil so kindly pointed out, [You can cut his sarcasm with a knife.] arterial spray would tell use whether or not she was already dead when she was stabbed. If someone was trying not to get caught, cleaning up everything is way more suspicious.

[sorrydoods]

Oh! So they did it to make it seem like she got stabbed after she got killed, when it was the thing that killed her! Is that what you're trying to say?

[not_over_yet]

[ Yeah, he deserves that by now. So... gonna keep his mouth shut. ]