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[adsum]

I mean...

[ Yeah, but also? ]

It stops there, though, doesn't it? She can't murder her way up any higher.

[ Unless... watch out, miss vp ]

[closewithnewintown]

Nowhere to go but down. They're fine right up until the moment somebody decides that what happened to Aiko should happen to her.

[adsum]

...Will you tell me what happened to her? Everything that you know.

[closewithnewintown]

It's not much, but I'll do my best.

The back of her head was kinda... smashed, and her arm was broken. She'd been dead for a few days before anyone found her; most of us think a fire in the library is connected. [pause] Well, "found." Somebody dropped her corpse right... Oh, um. It was in front of where you were, in the glass box. With a note that said "donation."

[adsum]

[ whispers quietly under her breath, what the fuck ]

And people think Hiro did all that?

[closewithnewintown]

Kinda. Not alone, at least. [vague shrug] And maybe he didn't do anything at all! I just wish he'd just be... I know things are different here, but I'm not used to not being trusted. All I want to do is help. Help him, help everyone...

... When he saw that I had that, [gestures to the knife] he was just so... sad. I just keep thinking about it.

[adsum]

[ The mention of the knife makes her mouth twist in a frown, trying to imagine why Hiro would be sad about it— because it was hers? because she apparently existed in a suspended state in the auditorium all month and left for dead? They weren't... He wouldn't be sad... she thought so, anyways. ]

We can't... help everyone. Not individually— not with people butting heads with one another. But if we can fix the situation, nobody needs to die. I think we can do that, even if it's a struggle to trust and be trusted.

[closewithnewintown]

I agree, but... [cocks head to side] I am planning on helping everyone. Us, you guys-- if I can do something to help the people that did this to us, to find out what makes them do these things and stop them from wanting to do it again...

[because that's what heroes do. everyone that's in trouble deserves saving, no matter what they've done.]

There's always a way. It's just a matter of finding it.

[adsum]

Everyone everyone? Maya everyone?

[ Maya who she sounded wary of? ]

The people who are out there killing other students just because... I dunno. Because they can. Everyone?

[closewithnewintown]

Maya, Komaeda, Hyde, the monster that eats your fingernails if you don't return your library books, the counselor, whenever the big bad villain comes out twirling a mustache...

Everyone.

[adsum]

[ She clutches her hands to her chest—- ]

What??

[closewithnewintown]

... Is. Is that new? Is that a recent development?

[adsum]

I don't know! I've never stolen from the library!

[ She stares hard at Stephanie's hands like, what about you? are you a criminal, miss Meanswell? is that how you know?? ]

[closewithnewintown]

[no she's good and fully fingernailed it is clamor who does Book Crimes.]

Well, that's good! Then you have nothing to worry about and your fingernails are safe.

... But, yeah, whatever's doing that? I'll help them.

[adsum]

[ Now Nao is going to stare at everybody's hands that she meets and judge them by the presence of their fingernails, thanks. ]

Why...? What if you meet a monster who eats fingernails because that's their favorite food, or something? Are you going to help take people's fingernails to feed it so it doesn't eat the rest of them? Is that your compromise?

[ Sometimes a compromise isn't the best option... sometimes she feels very protective over her fingernails knowing there's somebody out there who wants them. ]

[closewithnewintown]

Why not? People don't need their fingernail clippings; most people just throw them away! [which is Dumb.] And maybe the monster just hasn't tried other, better foods yet. It might like cake!

[adsum]

[ WHY IS IT DUMB

She looks like she wants to say something, but the overwhelming thought is "Stephanie is ten" and she's really feeling it now. ]

...yeah. It'd be nice if that were the case.

[closewithnewintown]

[because that's how you become a thrall to a witch ori everyone knows that.]

I never knew how easy it was to tell when someone isn't taking you seriously. [puts her fists on her hips, tilts her head.] Did getting your knife back make your day a little better? Even just a little bit?

[with a tone that says "I will stay here until you admit either way."]

[adsum]

...Yes.

[ She can admit that, at least. ]

I mean, I'm never going to the library again after this, but... it feels like a part of myself has returned. So thank you, again, if I didn't already.

[closewithnewintown]

[the words take a second to sink in, and then her expectant expression turns into just. beaming. like this is the happiest she's felt in weeks. because it is.]

Let's play together sometime, okay? You can pick whatever game you want!

[and then she skips back off to class. but also, she's not even two steps away from the classroom door before she just full-on does a cartwheel. it's like that.]