Week 1, Friday

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On Thursday night, well after nearly everyone else has gone to sleep, most of the cameras are left recording two-dozen people snoring away in their rooms. The night hours are usually filled with dead air, which makes for uninteresting footage and is usually cut from the episodes anyway. The house itself rests as well, waiting for signs of movement to indicate something interesting going on.

Not everyone is asleep, though, as the cameras are soon to pick up on.

There is some movement in the kitchen, where a certain hotheaded princess is busy collecting tools. Or, well, a single tool: the toaster. She reaches over to unplug it, where she hesitates for a moment, but ultimately takes the toaster and carries it with her as she quietly steps across the floor and to the backyard.

At that same moment, an external camera catches a dark-haired menace going up to the pool, having just missed the person in the kitchen. Thinking he is alone, he strips off his clothing and starts to stretch, getting ready to take a few laps in the pool to clear his mind and calm himself down enough to sleep. The house moves to censor it with a filter on the image, of course, but it's still very obvious that Vanitas is stark naked. After an incident on Monday and a failure to find anything better, he just opted for the most natural solution. He isn't worried about anyone seeing him, everyone else is supposed to be asleep.

Except not everyone is asleep. Azula is there, carrying her weapon of choice. But as soon as she reaches the back door and quietly slides the door open, she is greeted by an unexpected moon and visibly blanches. If her resolve had been stronger she might have gone through with it, but with her spirit already wavering she decides not tonight.

So she quickly slides the door shut, deposits the toaster on the counter, and hurries back to her room. She just climbs right into bed and tugs the blankets over her head as she tries to forget the sight she saw.

Vanitas completes his swim, none the wiser to what almost happened, and afterwards returns to his room to sleep.

The night passes with no deaths, and everyone is alive on Friday morning.

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((As a note, only characters outside of the round can see any of this. Characters within the round will not know what almost happened unless they find the video footage later or Azula admits to it.))

Comments

[allmyfriendsaredead]

-!

Oh, I see.

[She's being insensitive again, huh?]

I'm sorry.

[dereban]

It's okay, no need to apologize. If I can't come on site though, we could chat about the books through our phones. Video chat exists for a reason, after all, and I don't go on missions very often.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Sure. If I have trouble with it, I'll just ask Atsushi for help.

[She got the tech training but also, she never uses some of these features.]

[dereban]

. . . if Atsushi gets stuck on it, I'll come to the site and teach you.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

That might be easier. I've never been good with machines.

[dereban]

Thankfully, I'm pretty good at them.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Really? It seems like even in this time, it's usually men.

[She's impressed.]

[dereban]

Yeah.

There are some on site that are better at tech than I am since they're from the future and all that, but I learned a lot about computer programming back home, and I built one of my computers from scratch.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

There is still some very advanced technology even in my time.

[Hmm.]

I never learned how to use most of it myself, though.

[dereban]

Huh. What kind of stuff? Can you tell me a bit?

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[She thinks it over for a moment.]

I once met a moving library. It resembled a creature we call minoshiro, and it was even able to eat to generate power to stay functional.

[dereban]

. . . I'm. Not going to say anything.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Well now Saki just looks confused.]

What's wrong?

[dereban]

Don't worry about it!