[WEEK 3, FRIDAY POST-INVESTIGATION: Zuko]

[spinatalltale]

[HEY ZUKO]

[there's a pink witch in a jester hat wandering around the hut area with a book in her hands]

[do you bother, y/n? she seems to be engrossed in thought. . . which means her features are much softer than they usually are]

Comments

[cuedoves]

[Yes, he does. This is such a welcome change from her usual antics, actually, and he knows she's smart, so!!!]

Something on your mind?

[Beside the obvious]

[spinatalltale]

[LIES!! SHE IS DUMB AND DRAMATIC!!]

[but she does glance up from her book, stopping in her tracks to give him a curl of a grin]

It's nothing. I'm working on a new fish recipe: fish, with roasted banana slices!

[gross]

[cuedoves]

[Nah]

That sounds disgusting. And I'm willing to bet two bites of it that's not really what's on your mind.

You had a lot to say last trial.

[spinatalltale]

Haa?

[time to play stupid]

I was boooored, that's all. Some people just kept missing the obvious!

[cuedoves]

Sure. Let's go with that. [HE SEES THRU HER....... or so he thinks]

So, I'm missing the obvious right now. Aren't you bored? Fill me in.

[spinatalltale]

[she is a BLACKHEARTED WITCH!! BELIEVE HER!!]

[also, she sighs]

There's no obvious to miss just yet. I feel like we're working with a lot more puzzle pieces than we were last week.

[and most of them are completely nonsensical]

I can't figure out what any of them mean.

[cuedoves]

[she doesn't care at ALLLLLLL]

Well, there is something I noticed. Mello had a lot of theories on the killers and their behavior. He was killed days after he spoke them out loud.

Were you present for that meeting?

[spinatalltale]

Of course I was.

[as though she'd miss something potentially useful like an informational meeting]

But. . . even if he was killed for having a lot of theories, that doesn't really help us out much. It just made him an easy target-- and a stupid talker.

[cuedoves]

[he probably missed the shit posts]

Yes, well, there was one thing in particular he was adamant about. [the whole... the people who seem the most trustworthy may be the killers, so clearly Nino was confirmed for mastermind] It's my guess as to why he was killed.

Your thoughts?

[spinatalltale]

[here, she frowns, brows furrowed and a flicker of irritation appearing in her expression]

Hard to say.

[she knows it's a non-answer, but she also knows she just doesn't have enough information to give a good one]

A lot of it depends on the Chiefs' perspective. "Trustworthy" people being killers may be entertaining in a certain way, but otherwise difficult to handle. [what with them fighting against the system and all] "Shady" people being killers makes more sense in that it's easier to get them to take a life, but I don't know if that counts as entertaining.

I don't know what my thoughts are yet. I just. . . don't have enough.

[cuedoves]

[wow Magilou]

And we have no idea what they consider "entertaining."

I don't think any of us have enough information. But we need to start getting our act together before we kill more innocent people.

[this conversation is now hilariously ironic considering the timing]

[spinatalltale]

[THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH BACKTAG LIFE]

Uho. . .

You really think we can avoid it at this point?

[cuedoves]

[tmw being slow as fuck blows up in sipp's face]

We should at least try to minimize it. People need to focus on what's important.