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[aubins]

No. Probably not now. [ hm. ] Turns out that was the least of his issues, really.

[dotcom]

[ he has so many issues. ]

Let's talk about something other than the deranged serial killer.

[aubins]

We could talk more about how terrible we are solving these cases, if that's what you really want.

[dotcom]

... no.

Pretty tired about that one too.

[aubins]

How does solving cases actually work where you're from, anyway? Please tell me you get more than nine hours to investigate, theorise, narrow down your suspects and accuse someone.

[dotcom]

Well, there are some things that have time limits, but in general we usually have more than nine hours, yeah.

This is nothing like a normal case.

[aubins]

How does a normal case go then... or, what does one look like?

[dotcom]

It usually depends on what kind of case is.

But the first thing you'd usually look into those close to the victim-- people are actually more likely to be killed by those close to them than a stranger. See if there were any problems, whether at home or school or work. You can usually create a suspect list from that alone.

[aubins]

... Do you think any of that applies here? People turning on those close to them?

[dotcom]

I think that it could be possible.

People kill for a lot of different reasons, and we might not always understand them.

[aubins]

... That puts a disturbing twist on things, doesn't it?

[dotcom]

It does.

But hopefully, things won't get as complicated as that here.

[aubins]

Hopefully so.

[ when you're distrusting anyway and then you have to like. do the whole friends and enemies just as close as each other thing? terrible. ]

[dotcom]

Well, let's just focus on doing our job before we overcomplicate things.

[aubins]

...

[ looks... up. ]

I don't know, we're doing a very good job of overcomplicating things as is.

[dotcom]

No.

[ closes eyes ]

But I'm generally tired of being wrong.

[aubins]

That's one way of putting it. Let's try and catch someone belatedly, or actually catch someone on the week they killed next time.

[dotcom]

Preferably the latter. There's still a lot we don't really know how it works that a killer could answer.

[aubins]

We don't know a lot about the Avatars and what limitations they're under as well. [ ... ] I think that might be more important than we currently think?

[dotcom]

They do seem to have influence over this place, even if it's not intentional.

[aubins]

It's less that. You've noticed how they get pretty cagey when it comes to certain questions? It's not even that they're just refusing to answer, I get the impression they just can't.

[dotcom]

There's definitely something more going on here.

... which, honestly, was obvious. You don't get wishes for free, and indulging isn't even that much of a price.

[aubins]

The problem is, I don't feel any closer to knowing what that something is. And if it's putting the Avatars at risk too...

[ well. he's fond of a few of them, you know? ]

Then it's dangerous. Which, like you said, is obvious.

[dotcom]

Have you been looking around?

[aubins]

Not yet. I plan to though. There's more places to look than there was before, I'm just trying to narrow it down.