pc w/ shu

[applebough]

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[roseoftexas]

[ no pet? ]

Probably need to avoid getting as distracted as we did in the future though. We really got focused on days per year for a while there.

[ the logical thing to say, but i think it’s funny and we should keep doing it. ]

… More time for everyone to change behind privacy screens that way. [ be nice ]

[applebough]

[ always pet she's just like that for other reasons ]

... I don't think that can be helped if we don't have much to go off of as we wait for the first round of investigations and corpse checks to be finished. I would prefer some sort of tangent to a complete silence.

[ ... ]

I also don't think some of us can be as clinical as you, Shu

[roseoftexas]

Maybe checking pockets or something. But we don’t really know what we’re looking for at first so… [ sigh. ] I’m not a police officer, so it’s not like I know much about running an investigation or anything like that.

[ maybe the tangents are important. ]

That’s probably a good thing.

[applebough]

I know some people are not used to it, like Mrs. Jingu...

[ closes eyes... she heard her and throne arguing about this behind the screen in the second trial ]

Maybe we should suggest to the senior members to bring some more potential evidence for us to start with.

[roseoftexas]

[ he’s quiet for a moment. ]

More potential evidence? Like the snowglobe pieces, you mean?

[applebough]

Yes, that was incredibly helpful ruling out what could have happened and identifying what other evidence was.

[ Her rabbit ears disappear and now she just sprouts a small tree, not even a third of a meter tall from the top of her head with a single golden apple. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ hmmm. ]

Yeah, I wonder where that came from. Someone asked the senior crew during the trial didn’t they?

It meant we figured out a way to link different locations right out the gate based on the glitter left behind, but there was definitely other evidence out there.

[applebough]

[ hm! ]

I think it saved some time. I still couldn't figure anything out though...

[ The small tree wilts and the golden apple drops. ]

[roseoftexas]

It’s a lot when you have two cases to look into.

[ ah. hang on, his hand whips out to catch the apple. reflexes. ]

Figuring it out’s a whole other thing. We were really down to the wire.

[applebough]

[ Yuri startles when Shu suddenly catches the apple. ]

... As we usually are, right? Where did that come from...?

[roseoftexas]

The apple, or us constantly being down to the wire?

[applebough]

The apple...

[ Yuri looks up. She doesn't see anything. ]

[roseoftexas]

You had a little tree-- [ he waves a hand above her head. ]

[applebough]

[ His hand catches onto the wilted tree and that tilts Yuri's head back. ]

--Ah.

[roseoftexas]

[ hmm. ] I guess we've had people with all kinds of things, anything's possible.

[ he turns the apple over in his hands. ]

[applebough]

[ It's a golden apple! But it eventually disappears from Shu's hand when the tree disappears from Yuri's head. ]

Oh, that reminds me... I had two eyes on Monday.

[ She brings up the photo on her IRIS to show Shu. Two whole gray eyes!! ]

[roseoftexas]

[ ah. farewell, apple. ]

... [ he blinks, before leaning in to get a better look at the picture on her IRIS. two whole eyes! ] How'd you find having both eyes again?

[applebough]

The field of vision was so much wider. I was... glad that I could see more, but it also felt a little overwhelming. My depth perception had to be reworked a little as well.

[roseoftexas]

You don't really think about it the other way around-- [ lost eyes don't exactly come back, after all. ]-- but... yeah. There's bound to be an adjustment period there.

Did you keep bumping into things, or missing things?

[applebough]

I was being careful, so I didn't bump into anything, nor did I miss anything.

[ ... ]

... Ah. I do regret one thing, even if it has nothing to do with depth perception. I sent a message out into HER-MES on Monday... I should have been more specific.

[roseoftexas]

... Oh right, the HER-MES thing. It was kinda interesting last week. [ luke was mentioned? sus. ] What did you send?

[applebough]

It looked as if dead people were typing in it, and I didn't want it to be fake... so I asked "Dahut" to tell me what "Luke" was doing.

[ And the answer, of course, was shibari??? ]

[roseoftexas]

...




Wait, that was why that happened?

[ yuri you summoned shibari?! ]

[applebough]

[ Yuri wanted to disappear every time that was mentioned and even goes into a short brain getting circuited moment when she sees it in the execution the day after. So yeah. ]

I... I didn't know that I would have gotten an answer like that.

[roseoftexas]

To be fair.

I don't think I would expect an answer like that either. [ shibari...... ] Wait-- though. This means some of the messages last week were from them?