first investigation

[arsholes]

[On Friday morning, the second Friday for the Thanatos Institute apprentices in the tower, the outside sun rises and spreads its light through the arrow slit windows in the tower’s stone walls. People rise from their beds, some earlier risers than others, and shuffle along to begin their day.

Things are quiet, even with the lowkey air of anxiety that’s lingered since Tuesday when the Alchemist made his offer and Bryn attacked Bruno with an animalistic fervor. It’s probably fine, this hanging silence in the air.

Probably.]

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[philomachy]

It would appear we could not last the month, after all.

[Calm and impassive because... lol, obviously not even close to his first corpse.]

[strongestfeelings]

[hey gang she's here late w inkbucks]

Oh, another party, is it?

[philomachy]

[Ah.]

...Not that sort of party.

1/?

[strongestfeelings]

What kind of--

2/?

[strongestfeelings]

[what the fuck---]

3/?

[strongestfeelings]

[Her eyes shift. And just like that--- the light in the room gathers around her. Y'all might want to squint, or put on some shades, because right now--]

4/4

[strongestfeelings]

I'm going to destroy all of you [she's truly blinding.]

[philomachy]

[Definitely shutting his eyes a moment, because oh... oh now that is bright. Truly brilliant

Even if his eyes are closed now, that image is going to be burned into his mind.]

[spitessier]

You will ruin the crime scene if you do that! Then how will the killer be found?

[Please don't destroy us, that'll get in the way of the investigation. At least Katsuya already has sunglasses on, although he can't look at Stella for long without his eyes aching]

[philomachy]

I would point out that if she destroys everyone, the killer would inevitably be one of them.

[sounding extremely unconcerned about this]

[strongestfeelings]

Oh. Look, the one who failed to protect him-- he's volunteering to go first. [She can't make him see his greatest fears. She can't trap him in an illusion, like her mother could, to make him understand the same pain she feels right now-- the same grief, rage, passion, all boiling into one emotion, but she can do this.

Her eyes are the same raw brightness that her light is]

I'll microwave every water molecule in your body.

[spitessier]

Do it later, I'm busy right now!

[As if that's going to make Stella back off. Still, apparently he takes the threat seriously enough, because over him, Helios appears, hovering over Katsuya to defend him if necessary]

[encelevenemus]

[Okay, enough is enough.]

[The massive suit of armor (fortunately without anything to microwave in it) crossed the room in a blink, reappearing behind Stella with a very restrained strike to her head.]

That’s quite enough.

[strongestfeelings]

[fairy down]

[cakerights]

[Red Velvet is panting from running up the stairs back to the library to check on his Book Fort. There is an unconscious fairy and a bunch of people standing around!!! WHAT]

What... [huff!] on Earthbread [puff!!] is going on?!

[encelevenemus]

It would appear we could not last the month.

[Highly unimpressed, Somnus floated lightly to the floor from somewhere around the armor’s midsection as it dissipated.]

[cuttingremark]

[Loki catches her before she hits the ground, wincing at the pain in his hands.]

I'll get her to her dorm.

[strongestfeelings]

[At least Somnus literally knocked her lights out. She's nice and cool, now!]

[rikonstructed]

That would be for the best. Please keep her from returning, once she wakes.

[He's definitely completely level and not at all shaken right now, that was Fine.]

[encelevenemus]

[yay teamwork]

If she should be as volatile when she wakes, seek me out immediately. I suspect I should be the only one whose eyes she can't burn out.

[being metal kind of owns, actually]

[cuttingremark]

[Guess who also came in late! He shields his eyes and goes to try to touch her shoulder]

Stella, you need to calm down!

[strongestfeelings]

[SHE AINT CALM BRO, SHES GONNA MICROWAVE THIS JOINT]

[cuttingremark]

We can't avenge him if we're all dead! [He grabs her by the shoulders and tries to shake out out of it. His skin sizzles where he makes contact, but he holds on.]</small

[encelevenemus]

[You know what’s hard to blind? A suit of armor, which Somnus is very quickly shifting into.]

That’s enough, Stella! Calm yourself before you kill everyone here!

[nomansbosom]

[Sparring's a no-go, huh? Finn just kind of followed Somnus here.]

Schmow, dudes, what's with the light shooOOOAAAAAAAA-