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[burningrescue]

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week 2; post investigation

[burningrescue]

[Ugh! Well, when Galo smells smoke, he's immediately running into the hallway, dead on his feet or not. He won't really take the time to carefully examine anything; he's just trying to find the source of it.]

[soba]

[ it's funny because toi wanted to just go back to his room, but even he has to pause at the smell ]

Is something on fire?

[burningrescue]

You smell it, too?

[This is. Distressing to him!]

Help me find where it's coming from. We gotta make sure it's out.

[soba]

Dammit...

[ but he nods, and starts to walk around to see where the it smells strongest. ]

I don't even see smoke.

[burningrescue]

[He shakes his head.]

It smells like something that's still burning, too. Ugh! What the hell!

[soba]

Maybe it's on a different floor?

[ he starts walking towards the stairs and then just. stops. ]

Uh...

[burningrescue]

Huh?

[Whirling around to go check out the stairs. Oh.]

Aww, shit. It's the werefish again, huh? She slimed all over the place and somebody tried to fight her with fire?

[soba]

Or... something. There were three names, right? Maybe the fire's unrelated.

[ SINCE THERE'S THREE GODDAMN CASES!!! ]

[burningrescue]

Maybe. For now, though -

[Ugh. He's so fucking tired.]

I can't just let everybody go to sleep if there's a chance there's a fire burning somewhere.

[soba]

[ ... he sure is heroic. ]

We can still check the other floors to make sure. Third's probably our best bet since there's no smoke coming from any of these.

[burningrescue]

[Sure. That, and a little obsessive when it comes to fire. Nodding, though, Toi's calmness rubbing off on him a little.]

Yeah. It might be up there.

[He's going to. Try to climb the stairs while avoiding all the nasty slime.]

[soba]

[ he watches him start walking up....



and then goes after him. avoiding slime. ]

[burningrescue]

[He's hurrying, so it's possible he'll step in some of it anyway, we'll see! But once they get to the top of the stairs...there's nothing. The smell is gone.]

I don't smell it anymore, do you?

[soba]

No...

[ he frowns, and then turns around and starts going back down ]

Shit, is it in one of the rooms then?

[burningrescue]

[Nodding. Though - ]

It could just be. Magic or whatever? Like how only some people can see the crime scenes sometimes. If that's the case, we might not find it at all.

[soba]

... probably.

If that's it, then the fire most likely won't spread elsewhere, I think.

[burningrescue]

Yeah. I'm sure it'll be just like those other times, and it'll all be fine.

[But it still makes him really nervous.]

I'll check the bedrooms, anyway.

[soba]

... I'll go check my room.

[ considering uh, one of the people in it mcdied so ]

[burningrescue]

Aww, yeah. She was your roommate, huh?

[Pausing in his fire frenzy to realize he could show some sympathy.]

I'm sorry. I tried to find her before curfew so something like this wouldn't happen.

[soba]

I didn't stay in the room. I probably should have.

[ he knows that it realistically wouldn't have made a difference since they're all put to sleep but... ]

[burningrescue]

Where'd you sleep?

[It. Definitely wouldn't have made a difference, though. Chewing his lip.]

Also, hey. Did you know about her?

[soba]

On some stairs with some others. I don't recommend doing that, for future reference.

[ terrible idea ]

... Meltryllis?

[burningrescue]

Yeah.

[He pauses for a second, considering.]

Listen, it's going to come out tomorrow anyway, so I'm not gonna mince words. She killed Nia. Or at least she transformed into the thing that did. There's no question about it.

[soba]

[ there's a pause, and he shoves his hands in his pockets. ]

And how did you all find out?

[burningrescue]

At least one person got a prize for getting everything right in the voting.

[He gets that Toi doesn't exactly look happy, but. He's not backing down.]

But there could have been others, too.