Second Study Session

[lockdownmods]

After last week, you'd all hope that this wouldn't come to pass again. Yet, after the third week you've all had maybe some of you may have begun to feel a creeping dread. There are a few different reactions to have when you wake up on Friday morning and look around. The hallucinations and the voices are all gone. Get up and walk around, but they're nowhere to be found now; just a memory now.

What's left is the why. Maybe you've all passed.

Or just maybe... you should hurry and check the main building.

Comments

[preconstruction]

It's alright, there's plenty of people here to look.

[ hes going to gently lead her away from the body -there's plenty of other places to investigate. ]

[machrophage]

[Hey, Connor, don't mind Viral just kind of catching your eye, still at Rebecca's shoulder.]

You go find what you can. I'll keep her company.

[throwabookatit]

[ Her gaze keeps drifting back to Henry. He's dead. He's... ]

You... You really don't have to, we need to...find who did this, so...

[machrophage]

He's not going anywhere. Worry about the living first.

[throwabookatit]

[ She can't really argue. ]

He's not, is he? He's dead. He's...really dead.

[machrophage]

If he wasn't, he probably would have started laughing at your screaming.

[Because that's the kind of joke Henry would enjoy.]

[throwabookatit]

[ Despite her distress, she scoffs. ]

That's exactly the kind of thing that he'd find funny, I think. ...Still, he was only just...

[machrophage]

Think of the good. Whatever good there is to think about.

...At least he was enthusiastic?

[He's not good at this comforting business!]

[throwabookatit]

[ Viral oh my GOD... ]

Not this week. Something was bothering him, with these damn hallucinations, and... I wish I'd tried harder to talk to him.

[ ...oh no she's starting to cry, uh. i'm sorry viral ]

[machrophage]

[This is FINE...]

Come on. Let's at least not get in their way.

[He's gonna try to gently tug her to another part of the garden.]

[throwabookatit]

[ Well, at the very least she's not fighting back! In fact, if his hand is still on her shoulder? She kind of leans into him. ]

[machrophage]

[It's awkward but... humans are kind of. okay sometimes.

So he's just gonna lead her away from the immediate area of the body.]

[throwabookatit]

[ It's the comfort she can get right now, but it's not bad. She'll have to thank him, later.

...Very later, because she's a little lost in thought right now. Distant. ]

[machrophage]

[That's ok. We're just gonna go over here behind the hedge he trimmed out of frustration earlier this week. And not get in murdersquad's way.]

[throwabookatit]

[ After a short time, voice wavering and defeated, she'll speak up again. ]

You're really sure you're okay, staying here like this? Last week, you were...a great help, to everyone else, and... Well, it's not like...this is my first time.

[machrophage]

I didn't help all that much with this part. The others can manage without me for a little while.

[throwabookatit]

[ After a few moments, her shoulders sag and she gives a short nod, wiping her eyes with her fingers. ]

...Crivvens, I really, really didn't want to see anything like this, today.