RECORDING 2: THE FIRST MURDER

[foundationmods]

An entire week has passed, and nothing has happened. For a brief glimmer of time, it seemed like they wouldn't succumb. That they would be able to face down the Vessel, the Curse, and come out stronger on the other side.

....But when they wake up today, it's easy to feel the wrongness in the air. The sense of satisfaction from something lurking deep inside, pleased that it was fed...and pleased that finally, the killing had started.

As you all rise and look towards a new day, the faint traces of Miasma lap at your heels...

...And around whatever corpse now lingers in the hallways...

((OOC: 2 people max under a heading, please! Just to keep things easy on the mods.))

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[deadanimemom]

[Yuri's going to bring Yachi down the hall with her, and towards the living room.]

Look at me.

[accessorytomurder]

[She lets out a hiccuping gasp.]

I—

[She's looking, but her gaze is blurry and her cheeks are wet.]

[deadanimemom]

I know. [She's keeping her hands on the girl's shoulders.]

I know.

[accessorytomurder]

That—how do you do that—

[She shakes her head slowly, then harder.]

How—how—why would you do that to a a person...?!

[deadanimemom]

[There isn't an answer for that. There isn't an answer for all the horrible things people can do to other people.]

The demon wants us to suffer. And something like that... [that was suffering, both for that girl and for everyone who saw it. It could be that someone here actually did that, that they killed her and mutilated her corpse, but Yuri doesn't want to believe that.]

[accessorytomurder]

I don't underst-stand. I don't understand.

[She leans into Yuri and the incomprehension and hurt and horror roil over.

She cries.]

[deadanimemom]

[Yuri holds her, tightly and for as long as she needs.]

I know. [She says, quietly.]

[accessorytomurder]

[They're so close in height, it's easy to tuck her face into the other woman's shoulder... so she does.

She lets out as much as she has in her at the moment, until she tires herself out on tragedy and the soft, sad cracking of the pointless, baseless hope that they were all going to come out of this okay.

She knows, in her bones, that something like this was bound to happen at least once, that something like this might happen to all of them. But she had to hope, all the same.

...but it still hurts, to have seen that firsthand.]

......th-thank you...

[deadanimemom]

[Yuri's crying too, tears gathering in the corners of her eyes and spilling down her cheeks as she holds Yachi close and lets her sob into her shoulder.]

You're going to be okay.