Day 13: Investigation

[pandatreasure]

[Morning comes, and with it, a distinct sense of unease. The raccoons spared no feelings in their offers yesterday, and even tried to ensure a murderer could get away with it... Only if everything goes according to the raccoons' plans, though, and that hasn't really been the case so far, has it? Haven't you been doing so well these not-quite-two weeks?

In some cultures, thirteen is considered an unlucky number, you know.]

((Groups of 2-3 tops under each toplevel, please! We shouldn't need more than one person at each toplevel so please don't double up and give other people a chance to explore.

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[theyregooddogs]

[Will is not going to hunt down where people died, because that is trauma he doesn't need. Still, his eyes are getting wider and wider and his breath shorter and shorter as the tally comes in.]

[suppressthedark]

[HI WILL

GOD THIS FUCKING SUCKS DOESN'T IT]

...Calm down.

[There's some kind of irony, considering - but at this point, Ichigo has already had his emotional outburst, and despite the clear signs of him crying, he's got a determined, angry look in his remaining eye.]

[theyregooddogs]

I, um— [swallowing down his immediate caustic remark that comes to mind] . . . Yeah.

Yeah. I'll go—look.

[suppressthedark]

Don't.

[Ichigo is normally more loud, and emotional - but he's tight and constrained now, like a wound spring.]

From what I've heard, most of the bodies are in hard to reach places. Maki is impaled on a pipe in the ceiling, Dazai [A wince] is in the aquarium upstairs, and Jack was found burned in the science lab with a bunch of chemical fires.

The only one that you'd be able to get close to is Tsumugi, and that might just be because it looks like he took his own life.

[He states off the facts calmly - but his expression is anything but.]

[theyregooddogs]

You look with your eyes, not your hands?

[said with zero edge, just stating a fact]

[suppressthedark]

[Not what he was driving at, Will.]

...I know you're probably used to bodies, but don't torture yourself looking at them.

[This is why he hasn't gone looking - that, and his injuries. But mostly, he's just done punishing himself for being unable to protect them by burning the sights of their deaths into his brain.]

[theyregooddogs]

It isn't torture. It helps me pick out the killer, ah, killers. We're supposed to "catch" them, aren't we?

[suppressthedark]

Only one, remember?

[There's venom there, but it's hard to determine if it's aimed at Will or just at the Raccoons.

It might be both, actually.]

[theyregooddogs]

[rubbing his face]

Is that where you're drawing the line?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[fun times, huh? kaiba's expression is blank, and there's still some pepto bismol in his hair]

...Might be coming on time for that dog cafe.

[theyregooddogs]

[caught on the pink goo for a beat before back to not making eye contact as usual]

Think we're past time . . .

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...We would've gotten to this point anyway. Better not to drag it out.

[theyregooddogs]

No, we wouldn't have. That's— It's four people!

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Four people over four days, or four people over one. It's the same.

[theyregooddogs]

Four people over two weeks, not four days.

[not going to argue that it isn't the same though]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[waves a hand, since they agree]

Not what you expected?

[theyregooddogs]

[sighs]

Depends. Depends on what state the bodies are in, depends on how they died. There are a lot of variables on if this is what I was expecting.

[afailedmurder]

[you know who's got a smile on his face though? Baxter the puppy! Whom Akechi is delivering back to you right now]

...Are you all right?

[theyregooddogs]

[Will goes still as the sensation of dog conflicts with his emotions, immediately holding Baxter though. He curls his upper body around the puppy and inhales deeply, just letting go.]




[Gosh, I hope you have a minute, Akechi. Will really loves dogs.]

[afailedmurder]

[Probably a no. Akechi hangs out and idly wonders if he will love anything as much as Will Graham loves every dog.]

1/2

[theyregooddogs]

Hey, buddy. Yeah, oh, yeah, I know. You had a good time?

[time for the biggest skritches ever, bouncing Baxter a bit]

[theyregooddogs]

[and acknowledge akechi, i guess]

Thanks.

[afailedmurder]

Of course. He's no trouble.

[theyregooddogs]

He's barely housebroken. But I appreciate the gesture.

[afailedmurder]

He's good company. Though we ended up having a guest last night anyway!