grimmoired | CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

CHAPTER SEVEN ; TRIAL

The Story Continues...
CHAPTER 7 - WEEK 711 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.

The garden is strangely silent and there are no snacks today...it seems as though you'll be left to your own devices.

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[bless both magnus and souji. maybe magnus wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't tried to, you know, target him for death.

the man eyes souji for a moment, but seems to accept the question for what it is, nodding a moment later and gesturing toward another part of the market as he points out where to find a particular tailor.]

Truly? And to think we nearly didn't go that direction... thank you for your help. It's so difficult to find anyone who does such good work.

[it seems to work well enough to convince most of the group that they're fine! shirasu gestures for magnus to go ahead of the two of them, though his gaze lingers on one man who still seems a bit suspicious of them before he follows.]

[ with the pouch swiped and pocketed, magnus just heads on. thanks, souji? you're smarter than him.

he'll go to the stall he gestured to, pause long enough to inspect whatever the hell this one sells as if he cares.

once magnus's mostly sure it's clear-- he doesn't dare look back to see if it isn't, because that'd be suspicious-- he'll head onward to wait for the other two. ]

Ah, yes, thank you for your time.

[A little, polite nod! And then he's setting off after Shirasu, over toward Magnus. ONE THING DONE... Good work team. Once they're out of earshot.]

Well, that wasn't so bad. So now we need to...find a spinning wheel and also someone following us?

[WHY WOULD ANYONE SHADOW THEM.]

The second one shouldn't be a problem. I don't think one of those men fully believed us.

[he's good at spotting that sort of thing, considering... the way he is.]

Don't look behind us or you'll tip him off-- but we should start considering an escape route before they realize anything is missing.

[ someone grab the key if it. magically pops out or whatever. ]

Oh, great. If we need to we can split off in different directions and lose them that way? Circle around and re-group after we lose them?

[Yeah where even does the key come from... IT'S IN MAGNUS' POCKET NOW there you go Magnus.

Anyway he's less miffed that they didn't get away cleanly and more pleased they won't have to somehow bait a person into following them. GOOD WORK.]

If that works for the two of you, then I'd be fine with it. We could meet back up where we started, then?

That would likely be the easiest. He did point out a tailor, but they may expect us to go there... on the other hand, that may have the last thing we need.

[a pause while he considers, and-]

Shall we regroup where we started and then head that way together, to ensure we don't get lost or ambushed?

[ yay! pockets!

at least they don't have some kind of creepy stalker instead? ]

All right. We run, lose him, meet back up, go to the tailor. On the count of three. One, two...

--Maybe it would be better to walk, rather than run.

[JUST SO THEY'RE LIKE .5% less suspicious, maybe...

But with that said he does indeed just sort of veer off to the right to split up. BYE Y'ALL SEE YOU SOON.]

I'm sure we'll all manage.

[he's like 90% sure he'll be fine because he's pretty good at this kind of thing, so! good luck guys. when magnus' count finishes, shirasu also heads off in a different direction, quickly disappearing into a nearby group of people.]

Three.

[ okay, walking, walking is also fine. he veers off in a third direction, giving them a wave as he does. just. twisting through some alley-ways. which are probably filthy? from? being a medieval city? who would want to follow him through this. ]

[HOPEFULLY NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE. Souji thinks he might hear some footsteps uncomfortably close in the meantime, but he's also able to dodge and weave pretty well... NO GETTING CAUGHT TODAY.]

[good job souji... shirasu doesn't take too long to return to their starting point after his own dodge-and-weave adventure, though when they show up he doesn't seem to be there.

that's because he's casually hopping down from a nearby rooftop when the two of them have both arrived.]

I didn't see anyone following you, so I believe we're fine so long as we keep an eye out.

[what else is ninja bullshit good for, okay.]

[ reaching the starting point, he looks at shirasu.

you dramatic asshole. goddamn ninja. ]

Alright. Tailor's? And do either of you know how to spin on a wheel?

[ sleeping beauty he may be but how tf do spindles and shit work ]

[Why must Shirasu be This Way...

Souji's used to dealing with ninjas though considering his doctor back home is also a ninja, so he doesn't bat a lash as Shirasu just hops on down.]

That's good, at least. [A nod! Also Shirasu can get the key for that one in his pocket THERE YOU GO. ONE OBJECTIVE LEFT.

In the meantime, he'll turn and start leading the way to the tailor!]

...Well, no, but we don't actually have to make anything, right?

[hey let him live his ninja life!!]

It can't be that difficult, can it...? If nothing else, perhaps we can ask to be shown.

[he's following souji's lead, keeping an eye out for any of the men they've already run into.]

I don't know anything about them to begin with, though.

[ following as well. ]

I only know from the moving Sleeping Beauty. It's like... a wheel that thread goes on I think? And has a really sharp thing for some reason.

[ that they better avoid touching. but they have three tries if any of them do. ]

So it's... like a loom, maybe?

[Wow they're definitely going to have to ask someone to show them how to spin something without stabbing themselves.

BUT TO THE TAILOR!! There's probably a backroom in here with looms and spinning wheels and all that tomfoolery since it's ye olde anyway, who knows how they did things.]

Something like that, I believe... we didn't have that, ah, movie. [a pause.] Or whatever a movie is.

[but yes, the tailor! when they're greeted, shirasu gives the employee there a pleasant smile.]

Ah, we actually received a recommendation to visit you, but we have a couple of questions first, if you wouldn't mind...?

[a gesture toward the back room, and-]

We're quite interested in your spinning process, actually. I've heard it's very important to the finished product.

[he's bsing this so hard.]

[ magnus will let the bullshit ninja bullshit this, just smiling politely from behind him. so unsuspicious!! ]

[Souji just kind of wanders off while they're talking to go look at some of the fabrics near the back room... Just so the poor salesperson doesn't get Overwhelmed with all three of them standing there like "SHOW US YOUR SECRETS".

But the store employee does seem happy enough to talk about the spinning process! They have all the best silk threads, you know, and that's why no other shop can beat their quality, and hey, maybe he'd like to come check their Sweet Equipment out?]

[souji helped charm those dudes so shirasu doesn't mind doing this... but heck yes, bingo on the spinning.]

We'd appreciate that, if you wouldn't mind.

[and just gesturing to the other two-- come on guys they're getting a demo so let's figure out how not to get injured doing this spinning thing.]

[ mental high fives except shirasu is a jerk.

magnus follows along. wow, spinning. amazing. magnus is baffled. youtube is not helping. ]

[im fckin crying THANKS YOUTUBE,,

But Souji will follow these nerds on in as they're led to the back! Look at all this... ye olde stuff. It's probably cramped back here. There's like, bits of fleece dust flying all over the room so hopefully no one gets the sneezes.

WATCHING HIM DO THE SPINNING THING, THOUGH.]

--Ah, do you mind if we give it a try? It looks quite fun and we'll be very careful.

[Glancing to the other two like BACK ME UP.]

[shirasu is being helpful here, thanks, he would very much like to come back to life?

but the shopkeeper is eager enough to help them out here! he is definitely hoping for a sale, probably. he smiles and agrees that sure, they can try if they're cautious, just don't break anything or they might have to replace it!!]

Thank you-- ah, perhaps you'd like to try first?

[he nods to magnus, throwing him under this spinning wheel bus.]

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