What's the point in worrying about it? Anyone of us could have done it. You were the biggest suspect at the end, yeah, but most of that was from last minute panic.
... and if even you did do it, that doesn't change that the rest of us could also get into that situation, too. We'll figure things out. There's a lot we don't know about what's going on, so... there might be some way to stop the transformations from happening.
[ and it turns out there is, with the antidote, but she's already dead by that point. ]
There's just no point in holding up pitchforks to you, no matter what actually happened. The killers are as stuck here as the rest of us. Even if they might be turning into monsters doesn't mean they are.
[ No one should tell her there was an antidote found the week she died. She'd be as salty as the Dead Sea.
His words pierce her like an arrow, and heat spreads across her nose and cheeks like wildfire. For once between the two of them, it's Meltryllis who's flustered. ]
Turn the other way!
[ She doesn't want him to see how he's affected her. ]
[ She doesn't know how kids his age usually act, but while there is a little surprise, it's not a lot. She knows what humans are like even if she can't always understand them, and she knows they scare so easily. ]
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... A nonzero number of people thought I was the murderer tonight.
[ And yet he's still willing to sit down like that next to her. ]
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I know. Some might be mad.
[ ... ]
But this is alright.
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THE POINT IS, she could be (and was) the murderer, and he didn't hesitate. ]
Why?
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... and if even you did do it, that doesn't change that the rest of us could also get into that situation, too. We'll figure things out. There's a lot we don't know about what's going on, so... there might be some way to stop the transformations from happening.
[ and it turns out there is, with the antidote, but she's already dead by that point. ]
There's just no point in holding up pitchforks to you, no matter what actually happened. The killers are as stuck here as the rest of us. Even if they might be turning into monsters doesn't mean they are.
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His words pierce her like an arrow, and heat spreads across her nose and cheeks like wildfire. For once between the two of them, it's Meltryllis who's flustered. ]
Turn the other way!
[ She doesn't want him to see how he's affected her. ]
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literally the only reason he listens to her is because he is so surprised by the demand that he just automatically looks away. ]
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Thank you for her dignity. ]
I've been called a variety of things. Inhuman monster. Devil woman. Soulless.
[ She doesn't sound hurt or sad about it, but her voice is a degree softer than usual. There are some things that she's not surprised by.
Toi's words were surprising. ]
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... ]
... would you be surprised if I told you that kids my age are usually scared of me?
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Why are they afraid of you?
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[ the kind of kid that your mother tells you to stay away from. ]
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[ Sorry (she's not sorry), but she laughs. ]
Is it because you sell drugs?
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I'm not really that approachable back home, so people come up with a lot of things.
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It's better off not to know those kinds of people. If they're weaklings who'd rather make up lies than know the truth, it's not worth it.
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Weaklings, huh... yeah. You're probably right.
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[ She sounds so confident in that. ]
Do you want to be around people who do their best to think the worst of you?
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[ if
he's honest ]
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I'd rather not, too.
[ So please appreciate that she asked him to sit next to her. ]
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That makes sense.
[ he just
very easily accepts that. ]
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They're two people who don't want to be around other people, sitting on a bed next each other, and that's
lovely?
i was determined not to a drop a thread before you do, but
Meltryllis has nothing else to add. ]