grimmoired | CHAPTER 1: TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 1 - WEEK 134 Narrators Remain ;

Wakey wakey, naughty murder children. It's a lovely Saturday, after all. Breakfast is served piping hot at its usual time and all of the evidence has been removed from the scenes of yesterday. No matter how you choose to spent your morning though, the clock will begin to chime the moment both hands reach the large, ornate twelve.

Before your eyes materializes a door...but not just any door. Unlike the door leading to the festival, this door sits primly and properly right in front of the foyer. Whether you exit the castle on your own or you feel a friendly, invisible push, you begin to walk under an arc of wisterias. Behind you, the clock continues to chime with every step you take.

By the time the time the clock strikes twelve, you've entered a beautiful garden. In front of you is a long table, 19 seats on each side. Around the garden are several glass cases containing evidence collected yesterday. As noon intensifies on the sun-shaped clock, you'll find Tiger at the head of the table, a glass-covered rose near her right hand.

Tick tock, Narrators. You have nine hours to deliberate.

Throughout today's trial, the snow continues to fall as it has all week, though it's gentle and soft. Instead of tea and crumpets, today's snack bar includes the makings for s'mores, including sharp metal skewers. A fire could be built, should anyone have anything flammable. Additionally, every now and then, the howls of a group of wolves will penetrate the silence that occasionally falls on the the group...and sometimes even in the heat of the moment.

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Is this really the time?

When would be a good time?

Anytime after the trial. We only have a certain amount of time, you realize.

It'll take just a few minutes.

Why didn't we do this earlier, then? We've known there were two since the tapestries were revealed.

Don't ask me, I'm not the only person living in this castle.

I call them both Ion-san. It seems to work well for me, since at any time I know which one to whom I am speaking.

[yeah because he usually talks to them one-on-one JUST SAYING]

Why are you all so dead-set against this, man?

Because your timing is just awful.

[he says simply, with no sympathy in his voice. SORRY BELPH]

I had to carry someone's corpse back yesterday. I'm entitled to what cheers me up.

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We kinda had an entire week to come up with something since we last discussed it.

And we apparently never came up with something, so might as well get it done now.

As opposed to any other time after today because...?

It's more convenient right now.

Because you don't have to call a town meeting to get everyone on the same page?

[ listen. ... he gets the appeal ]

Pretty much! Less effort.

I’m rather inclined to agree. You all look the same anyways. This can certainly wait until after this matter is settled.

You're not human, your opinion on this doesn't count.

His opinion certainly counts!

[ HEY. ]

I mean, he can't really say that we all look the same? That's like if I said all monkeys look the same. I'm a human, not a monkey, so of course it'd be that way to me.

I beg your pardon?

[ Fane takes extreme offense to this, even moving back slightly as if aghast. ]

Why— And here I was thinking your lot weren’t simple minded savages.

[he holds up his hands, pacifying.]

In terms of recognizing us! I'm saying it's only natural that all humans would look the same to you.

Thank you, Fane-san.

[SHUT UP BELPH AKECHI IS IN YOUR CORNER]

It's far more important we catch the culprit behind these crimes than it is renaming the Ions.

Precisely.

[ He shakes his head with a huff ]

It is as Stephanie says, in my opinion. It’s wholly irrelevant unless we decide one of the two is quite guilty.

And should we need to address them at trial, all we need to do is use their name and then point to which one we're speaking to. It isn't that difficult.

[belph is just wasting time!!]