TP - PERIDOT DORM 1.0

[impacter]

If any of the Peridots die, we shall make a new dorm PC (unless the dead, idk, become ghosts or something).

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[noellemadic]

...no. I was--I spent the night at the rose garden, with Dain.

[And woke up to a decapitated body, wow]

[impacter]

Dain.... Ah, you mean Dainsleif. That tall blond fellow, right?

[God, but more importantly... the body had been in the garden, hadn't it? That's what the announcement had said, at least...]

Are you alright? Was it just the two of you there when night fell?

[noellemadic]

Yeah. Lavi must have arrived after we fell asleep. He just wasn't there before.

[impacter]

Did you see anything? Anything unusual at all in the garden before you woke up, or before you came down here afterwards?

[noellemadic]

Nothing worth telling. Dain and I kept distance from each other, and when I woke up and saw Lavi I left immediately to come here. I didn't want to risk someone killing me too.

[Tremendously numb to horrible death she is, but not when she's the one who could be dying. Sorry, Lavi, self-preservation mattered the most to her]

[impacter]

Mn. That's fine - keeping yourself safe was a smart decision.

...It does sound like they plan on gathering us all later today, later in the evening. Will you be alright, having to leave?

[noellemadic]

What? What for?

[She totally missed the details of the incoming trial, having been too worried to listen or remember the 'get away with it' portion of the murdergame. Better prepare yourself for a trial, Noelle!]

[impacter]

It was right when we woke up, from the girls crying from the windows.

"In six hours, the Troupe's on trial. A mystery dinner show, and the whole school's invited."

[noellemadic]

[Let her juuuuuust bury her face into her hands, tired]

This is going to be horrible.

[In many ways]

[impacter]

So long as you firmly remember what you just told me, you'll be fine. And you'll have others here to protect you.

Unless you're worried about something else?

[noellemadic]

I mean, I woke up near a mutilated body and fled as soon as understood what happened. I'm worried someone will think I had something to do with that death.

[It's a suspicious thing, after all!]

[impacter]

[He hums quietly, before slowly crossing over and extending a hand to place firmly against her shoulder.]

You're going to be fine, Noelle. You are. Just tell the truth.

Whatever happens, we'll find out who's guilty by evidence. Not by coincidence.

Okay?

[noellemadic]

...okay.

[Noelle nods, looking more comforted]

I'm trusting you all to do it right, because I'm not really a detective. I'm a strategist, not the one who figures things out.

[And even then her strategist skills are game-based. True, it could translate a little into the real world...but also don't put that responsibility on her, pleeeeease]

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[impacter]

[A squeeze is given to her shoulder at that, his smile even and reaching his eyes as he tries to meet hers. The most human he's looked, more than likely, in the entire last week.

They've got you, Noelle. Trust them.]

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[impacter]

[And, like a flip of a switch he's allowing her to see before hiding it away again, his expression grows sly with remarkable speed.]

A strategist. What a term to just drop like that, Noelle, you're going to make me so curious!

[noellemadic]

[That brief moment doesn't go unnoticed. She truly appreciates that]

Ask me more when I'm not in front of you. Forum only.

[Just echoing Solomon not answering questions back then through the forum even though it's perfectly possible to do so. That she's good enough to get a little insolent and throw back at him his antics is a good sign]

[impacter]

[He's definitely pleased with it. It shows she has some bite, and having some bite means there's still some spark of a life in there. In some way and shape. Even for the most dismal.]

Ah, so cruel! But if you'd like to show off for the other students, who am I to say no?