I always put myself in destructive situations [W5, Friday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It took time. Everything took time as it always did. It took time for them to all calm down, it took time to heal physical wounds, it took time to properly remove the evidence of obscene crimes...but in the evening they were able to gather in one place away from everyone else. It hadn't been easy coordinating everything, but it was necessary.

And so here they were. All seven of them.]

...I don't really know where to start. [His voice is tight, but determined.] But we need everybody on the same page. Who wants to go first?

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[elemancy]

Don't see why they wouldn't. They're basically at odds with the Bounty Leader.

[thatsthespirit]

[UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM UM UM UM?????]

. . .

But how would she know that, unless she was-- [UUUUUUM]

[Xion please don't be the Deputy please don't hurt Milla's heart like this]

[elemancy]

If she's the Deputy, or the Deputy told her.

[he'll say it, much as it sure sucks to admit.]

[thatsthespirit]

[please let her have gotten this knowledge from a third party please please please please]

Who does she speak with often? Other than Shinnosuke, Percy, Natalie and myself. I want to cover all of our bases.

I don't want to jump to conclusions. This is all still conjecture. We need to be certain.

[elemancy]

[defers to the room, because noct can only shake his head. he doesn't talk to xion that much.]

[hydrokinetics]

...Dr. Lecter. [He knows that much, at least.] Dr. Lecter, and by proxy, Will.

[thatsthespirit]

. . .

[and now she's thinking back to--]

Annabeth's letters.

The references to couples. The references to food. To whom you have adopted.

[hydrokinetics]

[Oh gods why.]

...when we first got here, I met Dr. Lecter because he was buying cooking supplies. [This is all fairly quiet as he thinks.] He was buying them because cooking was a hobby of his, but he told me that he used to be a surgeon. He said that he switched to psychiatry because being able to personally connect was more satisfying, but he connected that he took what he loved about surgery and applied it to cooking.

Measuring and cutting. Said the details are precision are very similar. It was a morbid analogy and he apologized for it, but...[There's a breath.] I don't know. I don't...after Annabeth and Riku's trial, I kind of refused to talk to him until I knew he had spoken to Xion. I know he's helped her a few times, even if I don't know what they've talked about.

[robitussin]

[She listens to that, and then pauses, and then looks absolutely horrified.]

...Oh my god.

[thatsthespirit]

[. . . she listens with a frown, but while the analogy is morbid, it doesn't. super stand out as something. terrible?? to her. at the moment. she might be missing the implications]

[but then Natalie speaks up]

Natalie?

[robitussin]

...I was talking to Will the other day when he was in the saloon. I don't know if any of you saw him, he was super drunk. Anyways, I asked him if he wanted me to get Hannibal to bring him back to his room, and he started going off about how Hannibal was the worst person here.

He started going off on this thing about how we're all cows, and you can't eat a drunk cow, it would ruin the meat? And then he said that if anyone here was a serial killer, it's Hannibal, and that his face screams manipulative bastard?

[screams.]

But he was just kind of babbling, right? I mean, that happens when you've had a lot to drink...

[elemancy]

[what the fuck.]

[insincerely]

... Pleasant.

[impulsiveness]

[whaaaaaaaat the fuck]

[insincerely]

She mentioned Dr. Lecter before, when she was telling me a secret and how about not even he or Natalie knew.

[apparently he's also giving her love advice re: shinnosuke??]

[thatsthespirit]

[thanks Dr. Hannibal]

Percy said the same. And do you think. . . the letters.

Annabeth's letters. Is there a chance she'd know about the Deputy?

[insincerely]

... Percy would know about that better than me. But it's possible, if we're going with the reasoning that Annabeth knew something.

[hydrokinetics]

...it might be what Annabeth was trying to tell me. [Gods. GODS!] Annabeth tends to know things a lot faster than I do. I'll have to look at her letters again.

[impulsiveness]

The Deputy.

[ummmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM]

[thatsthespirit]

[UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM]

There's a chance we're working ourselves up over nothing. We need to stay calm.

[impulsiveness]

Yeah well
Better accept the worst case scenario now than get fucked up over it later

[thatsthespirit]

We need to try and prevent the worst case scenario.

If Xion knows about Damian, but she isn't the actual Deputy, then perhaps we can get to her before she tells this person.

[elemancy]

....Finding out if she told anyone is gonna be important, ASAP.

[thatsthespirit]

[argh!!]

But we have the trial tomorrow, and that is going to take most of our attention. And we don't know if Xion has already spoken to anyone about Damian or not.

[elemancy]

I know, we can't do much to change the schedule. Guess it means it's a lot of time she won't have to say anything. Maybe we can catch her right after or something.