[WEEK 2, FRIDAY POST-INVESTIGATION: Akira]

[spinatalltale]

[for Akira, it's probably no surprise that Magilou goes immediately for her book once the death announcement is made and the crowd disburses. she immediately makes her way towards the jungle, journal flipped open to a blank page as she chews on the end of her quill. it isn't until she happens to look up to make sure she isn't about to run into anything that she notices him]

[and she stops in her tracks]

. . .

[she isn't saying anything because she hasn't forgotten that judging look]

Comments

[jokered]

Maybe. Exposition isn't my thing.

[that's what the rest of the phantom thieves did on his behalf.]

[spinatalltale]

[let her be a stand-in phantom thief, as he can tell she likes talking. a lot?? a lot]

[too much]

You're not bad at it. And as I said before, it means that the words you do say carry much more weight than others.

[he isn't full of hot air. like she is]

[jokered]

Maybe that's why.

[though he'll at least explain that much.]

Everyone else usually does the explaining for me. [a pause and.] I'm the leader.

[so what he says always does carry a lot of weight. he gets the final say in a handful of decisions, even if they decide unanimously on targets, and there's still so much that hinges on his words.]

[spinatalltale]

[. . . you know. she isn't surprised that he is. at all]

That's a lot of pressure, there.

[being a leader]

But something tells me you're capable of handling it.

[jokered]

I think I've done okay up to this point.

[despite how things have been here, he's always been pretty unflappable in most situations where he's needed it.

which is contrasting, but you know. back home, his teammates were not getting killed and dismembered.]

[spinatalltale]

[she doesn't doubt it, but. that isn't something she's saying aloud yet]

[she suddenly stands, linking her hands together and lifting them above her head in a stretch]

Well! Now that we both know far too much about each other, I suppose that means any one of us spilling the other's secrets would mean mutually assured destruction, right?

[jokered]

Yep, you got it. There's a lot of dirty little secrets exposed now.

[he doesn't seem too fussed.]

If one goes down, the other will topple, too.

[spinatalltale]

Oh, drat. There goes my plan to make myself the island gossip.

[she also does not sound too fussed, either]

[jokered]

You'll have to find a new castaway career.

[spinatalltale]

What aboooout. . . professional coconut juggler??

[that's not a career]

[jokered]

A tropical circus clown.

[spinatalltale]

No, no!

Tropical circus jester.

[jokered]

Right. My bad.

[spinatalltale]

Speaking of jesters, I hear the man with the dog is about to take up a new career as one himself. I absolutely have to see this for myself, so--

[the man with the dog is going to be a running joke]

[jokered]

[it already is, honestly.]

Go, go. Catch the man and his dog before it's too late.

[in the end... it's kind of endearing, honestly.]

[spinatalltale]

[SHE'S GONNA RUN THE JOKE INTO THE GROUND]

He~y, maybe one day I'll actually ask you to come see the man with me.

[WHAT MAN MAGILOU?? she bends down to pick up her book, tucking it underneath her arm]

Don't stay up too late, Newt. Big day tomorrow.

[jokered]

[he's just shooing her along, it's fine. go, magilou, go.]

[spinatalltale]

[aaaand away she goes!!]

[though not without kicking some oasis water at him as she does so, Mags that's gross the oasis is TAINTED]