FINAL TRIAL

[foundationmods]

...Finally, it was time to begin.

The unlit pyre rose before them, tall and massive.
The smell of smoke wafted around them, as the Witch stood before them - flanked by all her demons and her servants.
The Pieces she had taken.🗈

There was no audience, no trial.

It was just them...and the Witch.

The Witch who stood before the pyre, as if accepting her fate.


In this, this final hour... Music could be heard by both the pieces and those that looked on from another plane.

Their forms were changed again, for the final time - to those of the trial.

A trial that could easily turn into an execution...or a redemption.

But it still had to happen.
If something heals improperly, you must cause pain and reopen the wounds to make it heal correctly.
But.
There was always the risk of infection...

....Would this end....in a happy ending...?

...Nothing was certain.

Nothing, except the knowledge in their own hearts and minds.

Comments

[aleph_armed]

Same here. I'd kind of prefer to work on the last case, simply because me and Karen have seen the notes and puzzles there ourselves, but honestly I'm pretty sure we've got most of the details there already.

[improbablenotimpossible]

I have no personal attachments to solving my own murder, but I am the one in the best position to elucidate on the more murky details.

[aleph_armed]

That's true, yeah. I don't think we'd ever have figured out the source of the gas or that gash on your head without having you here, to be honest.

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Please don't say that, he had faith you would've all got it eventually]