crow catchall

[disingenuous]

caw caw motherfucker

make a group of you

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week 5, friday

[disingenuous]

[ This dumb bird.

Roxana is walking into the medbay, staggers for half a second, before she moves towards him like nothing happened. ]

Crow.

[ Is he awake to even hear this?

WHAT IS THE STATE OF HIM. ]

[chevaliered]

[ caw caw why are you fuCKING staggering. ]

Ro.

[ he is actually. and he's in one of those stupid silver hypothermia blankets like he's a burrito. a crowrito. ]

[disingenuous]

Are you all right? Do you know what happened?

[ Was he awake for whatever happened? ]

[chevaliered]

I am really cold. Like... it's hard to get across how cold I feel.

[ HE IS SO COLD. ]

... Not really, no. I woke up, I remember being attacked, and I remember running away from my attacker. Attackers? I don't know how many people it was. That's about it.

[disingenuous]

[ wish i could say roxana has amber this week but she doesn't.

Roxana frowns. ]

Attackers? I wonder how you escaped. You're the first who's escaped an attack. Please warm up for tomorrow, Crow.

[ ... ]

Have you been told who's gone?

[chevaliered]

Wish I knew how many of them there were at the very least. But nope. Nothing.

[ sigh. ]

... I've seen the profiles. [ he looks fuckin'. UNHAPPY. ]

[disingenuous]

Odd that it'd play with your memories at this point, but I suppose the Prism likes its murder mysteries.

[ Her disdain. ]

No one is happy tonight. Not that there is any happiness any Friday, but...

[ Some choices have been made. ]

[chevaliered]

At this point it feels like a pattern it has to keep to — why let me remember if it’s going to take away from everything we have to do on a Saturday?

[ DISDAIN indeed. ]

… I’m pretty sure if I leave, Hot Pants is gonna find me and throw me back in here. But I want to check on Clarte. Messaging them just lets them wiggle away when they don’t want to answer something.

[disingenuous]

I wonder if it means your attackers could be considered guilty tomorrow, too.

[ Even though he's alive? Roxana isn't discounting that Crow could also be an attacker, too, but... if he was the target, she wonders if Crow counts as a (would be) victim. ]

I know. They're almost as difficult as I am. [ Look, she has self-awareness. ] It's just a matter of who'll give in first. You could ask them to visit you because you're hurt. Their worry for others would bring them over.

[chevaliered]

No clue. Would you count them as guilty just for attacking me? Or if it turns out they were refracting, do you vote them to spare what happened last time?

... What was it we were saying about things becoming a complicated shitshow?

[ ... he sighs. ]

I'll message them, if they don't get around to it before me. Breaks the ice without having to corner them. [ proud of your self awareness, ro. ]

[disingenuous]

About how it would be so much nicer if things were simpler. I suppose these are questions we'll have to ask the Residents tomorrow, so we know how to move forward in trial.

[ is this a 2 or 3 guilty party trial.... help us...... ]

Sometimes, they need to be cornered.

[chevaliered]

Yeah. If they have some advice for us, it'd be appreciated.

[ help ]

Kinda banned from leaving the medbay annnd not sure I could right now. But if I see them, I'll get to the cornering thing.

[disingenuous]

If you can get them to come to you somehow, it may be a little easier than you think.

[chevaliered]

...

Maybe I can ask them to bring me tea.

[disingenuous]

[ ... ]

You were both injured, coming back from your adventures. Have you spoken to them in person since?

[chevaliered]

We went to see Shale as a group when we got back. Wherever we went, it was related to him.

[disingenuous]

[ wait, i forgot you both were in the same cyoa group. my memory is in shambles. ]

... Was it? It seems the adventures are pertaining to all the Residents now. ... Did you have to help him remember in your adventure, too?

You know Clarte's sight is what it is, don't you?

[chevaliered]

He wasn't there, but some of his family was.

[ ... ]

Yeah. They lost it after we spoke to that Witch. [ not three of us saying nothing so jan could reveal that as and when she wanted. ]

[disingenuous]

[ crawls back through my inbox you can ignore me since i'm dead

She tilts her head. ]

And the witch wasn't someone you could avoid bargaining with?

[chevaliered]

[ sometimes it's like i can still hear ara's voice.... ]

Mm. Possibly? But we had to find something and had no idea where to start. What we got out of it ended up being important for making sure we succeeded.