thefoundation | WEEK 3 TRIAL

It was noon on Saturday.

No matter where they were, no matter what they were doing...the moment the chimes rang out through the hall, they felt a change.

The world...began to expand, as they felt themselves leaving the world they were on, and towards another, much larger world...🗈

...As always, the courtroom was there - along with the audience, watching, waiting for the entertainment before them.

The Witch - Nirrti - was there, sitting in the most important place, watching all of them with a sharp, cruel gaze, a smile of pure delight on her face.

Watanuki was also there, but he merely lounged in the back behind them, smoking a kiseru pipe in silence.
...It seemed as if he was content to watch - that he had to watch - as part of the rules of the game.

There was no music to be heard, but... perhaps on another plane, in another place, someone else heard music as they gazed upon the proceedings.

Again, their forms had changed - perhaps into something different than last time, but...still a change, no matter how dramatic or inconsequential it was.

...There was a deep silence in the room, one that no one wanted to break. It was the faint tension in the air, like the moments before a race or a competition begins.

They had found the truth last time....but now, two people had died.
Was it possible for them to find the culprit this time?
A culprit that....had...

No, it had to be.

For the sake of the dead...and the sake of them all.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I believe it was an opportunistic crime, the victims were chosen because they look vulnerable. Even if they hadn't taken the tea, being on a balcony is risky, a narrow ledge, a good push is all you really need.

Edited 2019-04-13 18:27 (UTC)

If it was an opportunistic crime, then do you think the letters in Horns' room were destroyed by himself?

That brings up the question of timing again though. Do we know if it happened before or after midnight? If they were awake up there after midnight that would mean someone would have already chosen both of them.

Someone could have seen them from outside before curfew, right? Maybe they decided then to kill them?

That's true, they wouldn't exactly have been hidden. Then if someone specifically wanted two wishes...

Yeah... that's pretty messed up. And there was nothing in the Master Bedroom? No evidence or anything of the culprit?

I looked around the second floor, but I didn't see anything. Granted, I haven't spent a lot of time in most of the rooms, so I might not have noticed if something had changed, but there was nothing that stood out.