CHAPTER FIVE ; TRIAL

[themodsgrimm]

The Story Continues... CHAPTER 5 - WEEK 523 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 Dragon 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, cookies and cakes will be served as your trial snacks, along with hot cocoa...served in sippycups. Welcome to your trial post! Please see here for the OOC summary of events from yesterday's investigation. In addition, please be sure to vote! Please see the voting page on how to vote, as we will have two special things to vote for. Voting will close at 9pm EST/6pm PST! If you have any questions, please ask on our Discord server or ping us on plurk. Please direct pings for the NPC to Dana (decals), as she will be taking point for today's NPC, and the moderator team will be on deck for all other questions. full navigation. locations taken (statuses) stories (profiles) info & faq wishing well private conversations

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[He feels like he's going to be sick, but yes, he'll take the cloak off carefully (read: in the prissiest way possible, like it's a dirty napkin) and examine the face injuries first! What's going on there.]

[themodsgrimm]

[There are some nicks and light scratches on her face - apparently, whatever she was up to on Thursday night, it was somewhat violent! ...but not violent enough to actually disfigure her, either. If she was still alive these injuries would probably have healed up after a week or so.]

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[And on the arms, are those injuries the same? Shallow and light?]

[themodsgrimm]

[Shallow and light! They almost look like the kind of injuries one might get when trying to fight off an attacker armed with a dagger. Defensive wounds, so to speak.]

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[Ah...

And the blood or ink, is it all red? He's also going to examine the stab wound to her heart more closely. He's sure it's related to the dagger found in the same room, now, but he wants to be sure he doesn't miss anything.]

[themodsgrimm]

[It's all ink, and it's all crimson.

The stab wound is deep enough to have reached her heart. In fact, if he's looking closely - he'll see that her heart as indeed pierced by whatever did the stabbing! Like there's a puncture and everything. Yikes.]

[finethanks]

[GOD... He's reaching his idol boy limits here.]

Reyna-chan... [Before he finishes up, he's just going to look over smaller details like her hands. Any injuries, or things she grabbed at, or anything like that? Nothing else of interest in her pockets or anything?]

[themodsgrimm]

[Her hands have some light nicks and shallow cuts on them, too - they're not jagged, so it doesn't look like they were made with something with a serrated edge.

Examining her hands, he'll find that there's a patch of skin on her right ring finger that's lighter than the rest of it. ...should there be a piece of jewelry there? Maybe, but it's gone now. The undersides of her nails are pretty clean.

Will he be looking at anything else? Checking under her clothes for further injuries, or has Eichi reached his idol boy limits with the defensive wounds on the hands...]

[finethanks]

[He'll finish the job even if he passes out afterwards!! That is to say, he'll check what he can without fully exposing her, because he doesn't feel right doing that, and he'll even carefully roll her over to check her back, as well. He does it delicately and with ease.]

[themodsgrimm]

[The back of her shirt is stained with ink, too, though not as badly as the front. However, there's no rips or tears on the shirt - if he wants to see what the inkstains are from, he'll have to pull the shirt up.]

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[Reyna what the fuck happened.

But alright, he can carefully pull it up from her back to take a look.]

[themodsgrimm]

[A lot of things happened.

Anyway... on her back there are stitches! Someone very kindly fixed up the wound from when she went into the woods a few weeks back, but it doesn't seem as though she's fully recovered. (Probably because she does dumb shit like "demonstrate swinging a sword at trials" and "gets crushed by a falling tree during the week" on the regular.) Sadly for whoever put forth the effort to stitch her up, the stitches are ripped now. All that wasted effort.]

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[Well, that makes sense. Reyna was a thot for dangerous situations, too, it seems.

Eichi pulls her shirt back down and into place and rests the cloth beside her, rather than over her, in case anyone else wants to have a look. But he's done, he's going to go try not to faint.]