Second Investigation

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Another week has come and gone and there’s already been one body this week. But unlike last week, nothing seems immediately off as you exit your bedrooms. Maybe no one else died this week…?

Investigate?]

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[defyingfrigidity]

[No no no that's the last thing he should be doing! It makes her feel terrible, but she tugs her hands away; if her powers did something bad, he'd get the worst of it, and she can't let him get hurt too. She probably can't hate herself more than she does now, but... if something like that happened, she might just pass that level.]

But what's the point? We... we couldn't save any of these people, how can we possibly save ourselves? And if we somehow do, it's too late for them...

[toogoodforhim]

[His hands hang there for a minute, but one of them rests on what she was rifling through while the other falls back to his side.

It's like a war, he wants to say. It's an unfair, horrible war, but really... they're fighting each other, aren't they. It needs to be them against whatever's keeping them here, but if they can't stand together then...what's going to happen to them?]

I don't know... I don't know how we're going to do it, but I know that we will, because we have to. I have to take Mulan's armor back to her father for her... We have to live so that there'll be someone to remember them.

[defyingfrigidity]

[Maybe, under different circumstances, his words might be able to get to her. But she can only shake her head, that blank and defeates look on her face not moving an inch.]

I wish i could believe that, but... we all thought that there would be no murder this week, and yet... [She can't say it...] Our belief was false then. How can we cling to the belief that we'll escape now?

[toogoodforhim]

[It hurts, it hurts in a way that he doesn't know how to fix to see her falling apart like this.

He wants to say, maybe it was just the ghosts again, but the Host's announcement kind of throws a shadow over that. But what can he say?]

How does a moment last forever? How can a story never die? It is love we must hold onto... never easy, but we try.

[His voice is soft, but clear. He reaches out, touches her wrist (because she shied away when he reached for her hands), tries to get her to look at him.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Once, this might have helped her. When she was a child, she could at least tske comfort that Anna was safe, even if they were forced apart. But that's not the case here. Anna, Sophie... she'll never get to see them again.]

I'm sorry, but... I just can't... I...

[Despite seeing it work with her very own eyes, Elsa just... can't believe that the power of love would work in this place.]

[toogoodforhim]

[She didn't pull away, so he lets his hand linger. He's seen love, seen magic do crazy things. But he's also seen battlefields, bloody and dying people, and he can't... believe in that kind of magic. But he can believe in her.]

If it's all the same, I'm going to stay for now. I'm not giving up on you.

[I've been told I'm clingy.]