trustfell | Sixth.

This week has been a difficult one. Between the personnel change and the punishment, the week was already looking to be long; the incentive, however, is one of the harsher ones, adding a layer of hardship to the group that does nothing but compound the already-existing tension.

And, as always, there's the ever-present threat of the timer.

Friday morning dawns like the rest of the week before it; the clock chimes, the doors to the kitchen unlock, and there's a heavy silence that's settled over the building. There's no announcement from Jericho to awaken you, either; once again, this is something that's promising until it's thought about in slightly more depth.

Of course, as soon as you leave your rooms and move toward the main portion of the Academy in the morning, it will become immediately obvious that something is horrifically wrong.

Namely, there's a very distinct scent coming from the room with the incinerator; not to put too fine a point on it, but let's say that anyone who was in either the bar or the workshop last week will probably recognize it.

...Yeah.

Explore?

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[Good idea, probably. There's an immediate way to turn it off, of course - fairly obvious switch-type things, don't worry, nothing that requires rocket science to use. It's still going to be exceedingly hot, though, so you might want to figure out a gameplan from there once you've got it turned off.]

...All right.

[he carefully hits the off switch and turns around.]

Can someone go and get me some oven mitts? I think... that would be a good start.

[Done and done, Tarrlok! Rin returns shortly with the oven mitts, which have like goofy chicken faces cut out on them, which are now being handed to them.]

Here. You're taller than me, so you should probably do it.

All right.

[he slips those inappropriately cute mitts on and ...kind of winces as he begins to open the thing.]

[Fun fact #1: incinerators generally burn at about 800-900 degrees Fahrenheit, in order to ensure that whatever's inside will generate enough heat to sufficiently burn off all toxicity produced by hazardous material.

Fun fact #2: crematoriums, on the other hand, burn between 1500-1800 degrees Fahrenheit in order to reduce a body to ash. (Bonus fact! It's not actually ash. It's dried bone fragments.)

...Okay, none of that was fun but it was factual and relevant to the situation at hand because oh god there is still what is very obviously a body in this incinerator, is what this comes down to.]

[..................

OKAY. WOOF. UM. HE TURNS BACK...]

...well, there's... someone in there. I'm. Going to try and identify them...

[WHY CAN'T YOU FUCKS JUST STAB SOMEONE. LIKE. OH GOD IT PROBABLY SMELLS LIKE CHEMICALS AND BURNT FLESH IN THERE HORF IS THERE ANYTHING RECOGNIZABLE]

[...Yeah. That would explain the smell.

...Ugh, this is horrible.]

[I MEAN

ARE YOU JUST GOING TO LEAVE THEM IN THERE OR]

[HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET CORPSE GREASE OVER THESE CUTE MITTS!

...no he'll probably reach in and gingerly pull the body out...]

[Bodies are heavy and shit, so if he can get it up high enough Rin will like... Try to help pull it out so they can set it on the ground??? She thinks about asking Rideaux for his coat, but that guy looks way too fancy to willingly part with it, ugh.]

[You're damn right he's not willing to part with it.]

[TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM SOMETIME, YOU FABULOUS BASTARD.]

[LOOK HE'LL PROBABLY TOUCH THIS IN THE END.

ISN'T THAT ENOUGH.

HE DRAWS THE LINE AT ACTUALLY USING HIS CLOTHES FOR HALF-CHARRED CORPSES.]

[Well, the body seems to have taken about the amount of damage that one would expect from having been burned in the way that incinerators do; the side of the body that was lying against the lower portion of the incinerator seems to have gotten the worst of it - it's incredibly dark with charring and not...in the greatest condition, I will leave that portion of it to your imagination because I am not nearly enough of a sick fuck to describe it to you here - but the rest isn't precisely looking good, either. The body is extremely dehydrated, for lack of a better term; the muscles are taut and constricted, and the skin seems incredibly dried out.

That doesn't mean the body is unrecognizable, however, despite the severe burning; some of her clothes are still clinging to the body, and even if a fair amount of her hair has burned or blackened due to the incinerator doing its thing, there's at least enough left of it to see the original color of it - and not many people around here have light pink hair like that.

With that much identified, the rest will probably start to look familiar, despite the constriction and the seared flesh; it's obvious that she's been dead for a while - here's hoping it was before the burning happened. One way or another, however...

Estellise Sidos Heurassein is dead.]

[...

FUCK OKAY]

Right. Right. Of course.

[he takes a deep breath and steps back after setting her down. holy... shit.]

Wh--who is it, Tarrlok-san...?

[...She says, with Aligula covering her eyes.]

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[...Weeell. That's. Horrific.]

[Susan walks in.......

...aaaaaaaaand back out into the hallway.]

[Oh.

Holy shit.

Yuri's...here, isn't he...]

[SHE REGRETS HELPING MOVE THIS BODY SO MUCH. It was the clothes she recognized first, as they shifted it around, and her breath hitched holding back a scream.]

Estelle... [Rin backs away when the body is laid out, and instinctively her hands fly to her face—she catches herself and halts the motion just in time.] This is seriously too much...

[ .......He's definitely about to be angry soon to the point he won't be of much help for a bit but for now he's going to be literally so surprised he can't. Really say much of anything?

Holy. Shit. ]

[Oh god, she's not sure if she can bring herself to look--]

[ does she want aligula's hands over her eyes because she can do that?

...i mean aligula is super here for looking so. ]

[...Sayaka has hands of her own and she will probably jolt, but. She will not stop Aligula? She just...needs to know who died, not see that until she mentally prepares herself.

...She doesn't have to in general, but you know.]

[ ...She can do that then, it's okay bud you got to see burned people last week, you don't have to do that this week. ]