Week 4, Friday

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Another Thursday night comes, and everyone seems to know what that means. Even with the failure of last week, several people are out on patrol, trying to make sure no murders occur tonight. That motive had been tempting, after all, and keeping people in check when there's the promise of 'going home' on the line is difficult at best.

Moriarty, at least, seems intent on taking advantage of that motive. After slipping out of his room, he walks briskly towards the back yard. His intended target is out there, he knows it, and he wants to get this done quickly before anyone notices he's missing. The stipulation of 'don't get caught' has made this week's motive all the harder to obtain, and he has no intentions of letting anyone get the best of him.

However, Oda is not alone this week. Several people have decided to patrol with him, making for many witnesses to any possible crime. A fact that Moriarty sees instantly as soon as he steps outside.

For a moment, Oda and Moriarty's eyes meet. Oda frowns, because he can figure out exactly what Moriarty is doing out and about at this hour. But he can't say anything, not with the people around him. The goal is to avoid deaths, after all, and speaking up now will just result in Moriarty's death instead of his own. And since Oda won't attack with other people right there to get caught in a firefight and possibly die, he does nothing against this obvious threat.

Karen looks over the edge and sees Moriarty too. In turn, Moriarty smiles and waves up at the group, acting as if nothing bad had been about to happen. Karen waves in return, suspecting nothing. The exchange just makes Oda's frown deepen, but he still says nothing.

Then, once that pleasant exchange is made, Moriarty ducks back inside, heading back to his room before anyone can miss him.

The night passes with no deaths.

Comments

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Saki is... tired. She ended up dozing off on the roof sometime after Moriarty popped by and promptly went to bed later when it seemed the danger had passed. Besides that, she's been subdued ever since the pool party, too.

So uh

Enjoy having a pretty much useless teammate, blue team. She's just kind of staring blankly at the toothpicks.]

[dereban]

[ pats her head ]

It's okay, you can take a nap if you want to, Saki. This is really easy, we just need the proper materials.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[At that, Saki just sighs, folding her arms and resting her head on them.]

Sorry... I'm really not used to staying up so late.

[dereban]

It's not something you should apologize for.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

It would just be nice if I could make myself more useful on Thursday nights.

[She rubs wearily at her eyes with one hand.]

Anyway... if you're really okay with it, I think I will take a nap. [She needs to catch up on as much sleep as possible before tomorrow, and she knows this.] Still, please wake me up with some time before judging.

[oceanicbutterfly]

You were useful. With all of us patrolling, nothing...

[Hold on. Karen needs to yawn and stretch.]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

I'm glad about that, at least.

[dereban]

Yeah. You both get some rest since you all patrolled. I'll handle things from here.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Just leave the construction to us.

[...she says that, but now she's trying to get two toothpicks to stick together without having glued them, so maybe they should just leave it to Inaba.]

[dereban]

Maybe you should get some rest too, Karen.

[oceanicbutterfly]

What?

[She looks back down and suddenly realizes she has no idea what she could possibly have been trying to accomplish.]

Oh. You're... probably right.

[dereban]

Yeah I'll handle this, it's an easy experiment anyway with a lot of ways to go around it.

[odasaku]

[ he’ll hand her a cup of coffee. it warm. ]

Thanks for yesterday. Try to take it easy today.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[She'll cradle the cup between her hands, looking up at him. She may be sleepy, but she can still be unimpressed.]

You didn't really stick to that promise, did you? [A sip, and then a pause to swallow.] Or maybe you never really agreed to it in the first place.

[Deciding to try to go out on his own like that.]

[odasaku]

We can talk about it later.

[ no need to talk about his very obvious very real fear of james moriarty in front of everyone else. ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

Alright. Later, then.

[Siiiiiip.]

[darkremnants]

[ Puts a toothpick in her hair. ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Just because she's sleepy doesn't mean she can't feel that. She fishes it out with a sleepy frown.]

Are you giving us more materials?

[darkremnants]

Sure.

[ Maybe he took it from another team. ]

Looks like you were up all night.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

I nearly was.

[Nearly, because she dozed off eventually.]

But we didn't have any deaths, so it was worth it.

[darkremnants]

None yet. Not sure if I should be disappointed or not.

[ Lowering his voice as he plops down next to her. ]

You can do better.

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[...?

She casts him a confused look, weary.]

What?

[darkremnants]

Don't worry about it.

[ Pushing some tooth picks over to her. ]

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[?????]

You're so weird.

[But there's a bit of affection to the words, and she'll give his shoulder a tiny baby shove so she doesn't touch him for too long.

She's learning. And she's also taking the toothpicks, arranging them in front of her on the table by hand.]

[darkremnants]

[ He doesn't react to the shoulder shove. Like maybe a tiny bit is now okay ]

It's part of my charm.