perpend: (⚖ i realize i may not get over you)
Inspector Cabanela ([personal profile] perpend) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2017-09-30 08:30 pm

don't wait for a knight in shinin' armor, your savior's reflected in the mirror

[That sure was a fucking thing. That execution was a fucking thing. Those secrets are a fucking thing.

Cabanela retreats to his room, but not for all that long. Everyone will get a note eventually, written in very neat handwriting


I do not plan on bowing down to threats and intimidation. If you did not act, it means you were, like me, aware of the risk, but decided against it. Your reasons are entirely your own.

Join me in the dining room if you agree enough is enough, and that you won't acquiesce to threats. I don't plan to let this stop me, and neither should you.

-C


In the dining room itself, Cabanela has set up coffee and tea for those who want it-- there's no food, because to be honest, he doesn't know how to cook. Two more candles have been lit-- he wasn't really sure what to do about the whole... parasite thing... so Fern's candle will have to make due.]
destage: (DISTANT ♡ Do you have a dream?)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
...She's probably worried you all would see it fit to harm her, if she let you know. That's why I've been running blood for her for a while--so she wouldn't have to put her neck out there and get hurt, but also so that no one would get hurt in general.

[Sayaka doesn't seem to mind, though she's not...really going into other reasons, at the moment.]

It'd be negligent to let her waste away, right?
ninehundredlives: ([ narcotic heart ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I think I got over that with the literal mermaid thing.

[Jean didn't set the greatest example for how to deal with nonhumans. Susan shrugs.]

As long as she isn't hurting anybody, I don't see why it should matter. They ought to have provided for her to begin with, instead of waiting for that floor to open up.
destage: (SERIOUS ♡ Okay so maybe I'm screwed up)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
...I almost wonder if they were expecting her to attack for it. That's...cruel, honestly.

[Her eyes narrow a bit at that.]

At least the blood supply replenishes with the food. I'd be worried for her if it didn't, and...it'd be so cruel to give us all food, and make her starve.
ninehundredlives: ([ it's all in your head ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think they're worried about being cruel.

But it would go against their own game, to do that to her. To force her to attack someone, or else starve to death. Everything else has been...more like encouragement.
destage: (AVERT ♡ I guess that's okay)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
...I wouldn't put it past them, actually. Or at least Jericho-san; maybe Larimore-san convinced him to do otherwise.

But you have a point. I wonder if it's gonna stay like that, though.
ninehundredlives: ([ ready for it ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's been working well enough so far. But this...whole secret thing.

[.....]

It was a pretty big escalation. And we're not even a month in.
destage: (SWEAT ♡ I'm scared...)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad one, honestly. Because if this is the best they've got, they've already wasted it. But if it isn't...

[She's. Not sure she wants to think about that end of it.]

It could get real bad for us.
ninehundredlives: ([ the lamb ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t know what more they could do. But then...I wouldn’t have thought of any of this to begin with.

[And with their homes being involved in this...maybe it’s better not to bring that up.]

At least they can’t keep dangling secrets over our heads, I guess. I wish we could have known what White’s was.
destage: (SERIOUS ♡ Okay so maybe I'm screwed up)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not like they could ever threaten our loved ones or anything.

That's just crazy talk.]


It sounds like he really had something to hide, though. It would've been him, if it wasn't...well, what was left of Fern-san. It was clearly enough to try and sacrifice all of us for, and it...

[...Sayaka shakes her head, letting herself trail off.]

I never knew White-san, but honestly, I almost wish it wasn't so bad in there. I would've been happy to kick him.
ninehundredlives: ([ and you're not coming ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[That would be one of the reasons she's not bringing it up.]

I can't really blame that thing...Celia...for doing what she did. The rest of it, maybe, but he deserved it.
destage: (SOLEMN ♡ no really I deserve the void)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
...The rest of it was just excessive, and I don't think I'll ever look at...any of that the same way again.

[Like seriously, what the hell is wrong with that hospital.]

I just hope Fern-san's able to find peace, where ever she goes. Maybe she won't have to share the room with White-san ever again.
ninehundredlives: ([ my heart is heavy enough ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[And then...]

It sounded like she'd died before. Maybe that makes it easier.
destage: (UH ♡ I have SEVERAL questions)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[i can't believe ginti's gonna be judging our sorry asses again]

...You know, I'm wondering how on earth someone can actually come back to life from dying. That's absolutely impossible, isn't it?
ninehundredlives: ([ the color today ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-01 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...you'd think that, wouldn't you?

[Susan considers, glances up at the wall of secrets. That's out there already. And she regrets, now, that she didn't talk to Fern about a few things when she had a chance...why is she holding everything else so close to her chest? People here would believe her.

Ugh, but it's hard. She keeps her eyes on the burnt letters as she speaks.]


But I remembered it happening to me on Sunday. I didn't tell anybody, but...I wish I'd told Fern.
destage: (SHOCK ♡ Those colors don't go together!)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-01 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...What?

[That's actually legitimately shocking, and...Sayaka's not so sure what to think of that. That's not something that happens. It just isn't. People die when they're killed. Even so, that's...

...It's something Sayaka can understand, especially now.]


Oh, Ashworth-san...I'm so sorry. You were really close with her, weren't you?
ninehundredlives: ([ alone soaked in rain ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-02 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah. That's fine, if we're not going to dwell on that.]

I don't know. Maybe? We were friends...but there were a lot of things I didn't tell her, too. And I haven't really had any friends for a long time...
destage: (SMILE ♡ Like nothing's wrong)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
...I consider some of the people I've met here friends, and I haven't told them some things.

[Granted, most of them do know, but. They're more 'trusted confidant' category.]

It's not a bad thing, though, to make friends here. We may all have interesting secrets, but...they're not all bad.
ninehundredlives: ([ ready for it ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-02 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
I guess not...

[She can actually think of several downsides to making friends here - Fern is, after all, dead. But that's not something she'll bring up to Sayaka, of all people.]

We'll have a better time than if we all retreated to our rooms, anyway.
destage: (THINK ♡ Well it's not like I'll die)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-02 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
...Those rooms are so oppressively silent. It makes me wish there was a radio here, or something...

[What kind of music would these fuckers even play, though.]
ninehundredlives: ([ knock knock ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-02 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
A record player, maybe. If they're going to keep handing out all those Queen albums.

[Seriously why is that happening]
destage: (SWEAT ♡ Queen of awful people...?)

[personal profile] destage 2017-10-02 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
...That would make the most sense, wouldn't it? I'm surprised those are so widespread, though...maybe they're fans?
ninehundredlives: ([ open up ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-02 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
They'd have to be big ones, to be collecting records still. What a weird thing...it'd be such a normal hobby.