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.]
heritrix: (who got sad in my tea)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-02 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She's playing letter tag with Sayaka tonight as well, going back and forth between their rooms, so she sees the note when she comes back from one of those trips. Hm. Maybe she'll camp out for a bit...? If she continues to get responses.]

How long ago was it?

- Rin
ninehundredlives: ([ got to flee ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's probably how Susan missed her, to be honest. She's not really opposed to the idea of a face-to-face conversation, now that she's had a little while to sit, so she knocks lightly on the door again this time, to confirm no one is in before just leaving a note.]
heritrix: (so that's how it is)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-02 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Give her just a few moments, and Rin will open the door.]

Susan. [She looks surprised, but maybe pleasantly so.] I wasn't expecting you.
ninehundredlives: ([ wookie noise ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-03 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...I thought you'd be out, actually... [Look, she's even got a note and everything. She puts it back in her pocket.] But this is fine, too.
heritrix: (shiny?)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-03 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[She knocked even though she thought Rin would be out? Rin tilts her head, then opens the door a little wider.]

Would you like to come in?
ninehundredlives: ([ the crow ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-03 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, you know, one checks.]

......sure, okay.
heritrix: (shoulder)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-03 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
We can leave the door open, if you'd like. Whatever you're more comfortable with.

[There's very few people Rin would make that offer to this late at night, but guess what? Susan's one of them.

...also just ignore the shark sleeping bag on her bed, she has no idea where to put it yet.]
ninehundredlives: ([ knock knock ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-03 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't matter.

[What's Rin going to do, murder her? Stupid to do it in her own bedroom, and after the secrets are already out anyway.

.....nice shark sleeping bag.

It was easier, really, exchanging notes. Maybe she should have stuck to it. But she's here now, so...]


Two years. Almost.
heritrix: (downcast)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-03 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She cuts straight to the chase, huh. In some ways, Rin can appreciate that more.]

That's more recent than I would have thought. [Rin takes a seat on the edge of her bed.] You're still grieving, then.

[Pointedly, she refrains from saying "I'm sorry". Once was enough; twice makes it tired. A rotary phrase that loses its meaning each successive time you hear it.]
ninehundredlives: ([ knock knock ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-03 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...yeah. I guess so.

[Unsure of herself, a little, she just folds her arms and leans against the wall.]

It doesn't feel like it's been long at all.
heritrix: (majestic and shit)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-03 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like it was an accident.
ninehundredlives: ([ wookie noise ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. She...had a really bad allergy. To pollen. Nobody knew until after. I was...I put flowers in the nursery.
heritrix: (concern)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-04 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[It was two separate incidents? ...Rin thinks she can see where this is going, but she has to ask.]

What about your husband?
ninehundredlives: ([ my heart is heavy enough ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-04 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
He went out in the woods and drank himself to death not long after. They didn't find his body for weeks. It was a really hot summer that year...

[now why did she go and include all that?]
heritrix: (minutes before welding)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-04 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[To give the worst mental image possible?]

Everything just fell apart, then. That's not your fault.
ninehundredlives: ([ cheat ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-04 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
But the wording wasn't wrong, was it? "My actions"...I only put the flowers in there because I was hiding them from Eric. There was this other man who kept sending them...
heritrix: (walk this way)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-04 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Rin actually can't argue against that. Keeping her head held high, her gaze lingers beyond Susan's shoulder for a moment in thought, before going back to her.]

I can't refute that. [She wants to, for Susan's sake, but her pragmatism won't let her.] If I tried, I'd be creating a double standard, or otherwise excusing my own actions.
ninehundredlives: ([ four minutes ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-05 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? [Well...she won't press on that.] I don't...really blame myself as much anymore, I guess. Not any more than I blame Eric, or just...everything. But I don't see the point in pretending it totally wasn't my fault.
heritrix: (pout)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-05 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Did it cause problems for you back home? [Besides the obvious, she means.] No one suspected you of anything, right?

[It sounds like this Eric guy caused problems, at any rate.]
ninehundredlives: ([ narcotic heart ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-05 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No...no, nothing like that. I couldn't make myself go back to work, though...

[She's been telling people she's "between jobs", but it's really more like "left the previous one with zero plan".]
heritrix: (westside story)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-05 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
And I take it you haven't done much else in the meantime since then.

[Susan said she can't see home as much better, so it paints a dismal view of things.]
heritrix: (stardust)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-06 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Right. In that case...]

We should hang out more.
ninehundredlives: ([ a tighter spring ])

[personal profile] ninehundredlives 2017-10-07 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? [.....] That'd be nice, yeah.
heritrix: (dream weaver)

[personal profile] heritrix 2017-10-07 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Rin smiles.] As neighbors, we might as well, right? What sorts of things are there to do around here that you enjoy?

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