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[sengokus]

No but Primrose-san and Meg-san were
I'm gonna finish my first round of looking and we can compare notes
Where are you?

[dotcom]

Going down the elevator. I'll be on the ground floor soon.

[sengokus]

[cool then we'll say that mineo did his laps from the top floor down. so he's hanging out at the ground floor, waiting by the elevator when takeru arrives. he looks him up and down just out of habit]

See anything weird today? Besides where you were sleeping, I guess.

[it sure is time for business]

[dotcom]

[ he is fine! he is, however, grabbing mineo's hands and looking them over. ]

Nothing. When we woke up this morning, we saw stars when we closed our eyes. Nothing weird happened before we fell asleep though, which is weird.

[sengokus]

[what.

mineo blinks in confusion but he lets takeru take his hands? they are covered in clown blood.

no they're clean.]

... nothing?

[dotcom]

[ he lets him go. ]

Nothing. It was a peaceful, normal night until we got knocked out.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . fucking weird. now he's going to look over his own hands]

Should I be checking your hands too?

[what was that about, before he explains the library]

[dotcom]

Looking for ink.

What happened with the library?

[sengokus]

What's the ink about?

[but mineo will at least get them to walk? he doesn't want to just stand and talk in front of the elevator.]

Before we fell asleep, the last line of every book - nonfiction included - changed to 'and they lived all lived happily ever after.'

Today they all changed to books about getting through loss, and the covers and pages are bloody.

[dotcom]

Don't mention it to anyone. Mollymauk and Harrowhark just put ink on the med bay's door before they fell asleep. I'm the only person who knows besides them, so.

[ but he'll nod his head. ]

I wonder what that means...

[sengokus]

You guys really like your secret keeping, huh. [but regardless he nods] I won't mention it. Do you want me to look for ink or should I leave it to you?

[just in case it gets overly suspicious to have so many people looking at hands]

.... the first one, I guessed that it was Ashiya-san or Omi-san who might've been involved. Or Aoi-san, if you take it more liberally with good ends or bad ends in video games. [THE META]

I haven't figured out about this morning. The stars you see when you close your eyes... Probably a sign for the planetarium though, right?

[dotcom]

Well, there's not much point in setting a trap if everyone knows. You don't have to keep a look out though, unless it's really obvious. Chances are they'll just wash their hands.

[ but an attempt was made. ]

Probably. We'll see if any of yours match with other people had. [ ... ] Still weird that we didn't get anything last night.

[sengokus]

Probably. [a beat]. You think I'd be awake at night and not tell you about it?

[takeru,]

But yeah, that's pretty weird... That hasn't happened yet, right?

[dotcom]

Doesn't hurt to double check.

... but as far as I know, yeah. This is the first time.

[sengokus]

Nah, I'd tell you. So you can hit me if I don't.

[he's too honest?]

... maybe it's because there's so many locations...? [his brow furrows] You sure it wasn't just hidden? It took us a while to find ours in the library since we had to open a bunch of books to realize the trend...

[dotcom]

[ he just shrugs. ]

If there was, it was hidden really, really well.

[sengokus]

I wonder if... not finding anything is a hint...?

[what would that hint be, mineo]

[dotcom]

Well... we'll see what everyone else saw tomorrow.

[ so no point in fussing too much now. ]

It being both Omi and Douman feels too much like a coincidence, but I also don't want to just assume they're connected...

[sengokus]

[ . . . he looks thoughtful about that.]

I mean... I can see not thinking that Omi-san would be able to hold his own enough to take a life to protect his own. After the whole thing with Fukuda-san.

And Ashiya-san... His eye was actually still kinda messed up yesterday. He couldn't see all that well. So I guess if anyone felt like taking advantage of that, or suspected him like we did...

[dotcom]

So, both potential easy targets. Do you know if Douman used the healing pods?

[ since that may change things ]

[sengokus]

A little - I caught them after they stumbled out for initial healing to stop the bleeding. One eye was healed, the other wasn't... so they seemed a little dizzy and disoriented.

I don't know if they stayed there, or if they went back to the pod after we were done talking.

I don't know if either of them got new powers either. I know that Ashiya-san had one that could make someone's blood boil for thirty seconds, and Omi-san had.... [fuck] He could make someone super fixated on something for twenty-four hours? A person, idea, or object.... So we should be on the lookout today.

[dotcom]

... well, if he used that, hopefully he chose something that would be obvious to notice.

[ it won't do much good if they can't tell a difference. there are so many weirdos here. ]

[sengokus]

... I'm admitting to you now I haven't seen anything, but I'll keep looking.

[why

do people fail to use their fucking powers in meaningful ways]

[dotcom]

Do you know what the time limit on those were?

[sengokus]

Blood boiling was thirty seconds.

Omi-san's should be all day though - twenty four hours.