grimmoired | 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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[He nods, but...]

I don’t know how far away I can be to make it work, so we should both go. You ready?

[Off to fight a clock they go!!]

Ready whenever you are.

[he could fight this clock for breakfast

that makes no sense but it's been a long day]

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[While they're off fighting a clock, Souji will be moving to the ends of this rooftop to see if he can find any beds of flowers for their final objective... Looks like one of the buildings below has a rooftop garden!]

[Aaaand, Veronica is going to join Souji!]

... Should we go ahead, or do we wait for them? [Dazai don't die again, please.]

[Meanwhile, team rocket’s blasting off again! By which I mean, Dazai and Evan are rising from the ground to reach the clock. Bye, y’all.]

...Where do we want to land?

[Bye, see all of you later.]

With a giant clock face, there should be a big enough ledge at the bottom to land on.

[BYE NERDS!! Souji and Veronica are off to sniff some roses. He'll glance back over toward the clock tower, though...]

...I think they should be fine. Shall we?

[TIME TO YEET DOWN.]

They better be. [She sighs.

AND AWAY THEY GO.]

[Once they’re safely on the landing, Evan turns to Dazai.]

Now what...?

[Dazai looks up. Thankfully it's gotten fairly late, but...]

As far as I can tell, the options are that you fly me up there to help me push it the old-fashioned way, or you just try to push it with wind.

[TIME TO FIND SOME FLOWERS TO CRY OVER. Once he finds a few pots of them, he'll gesture Veronica over and then lean over them.

...But after a second:]

So we just have to cry on them?

[Actually he should have maybe been the clock yeeter WHOOPS.]

Cry and... warm them up, I think? I don't know how we're going to do that last part, though. My gift's useless for that.

[They definitely should have been clock yeeters.

She rubs her eyes until they start tearing up, anyway? Which is bad, but. Whatever.]

I don’t think it’s strong enough to move the hands on it’s own. You okay to do it on your own, or you want me to come...?

[Either way, Dazai is getting lifted up again.]

Don't worry! I can do it myself, without a doubt!

[It would be quicker if Evan came up and helped, but they have enough time that Dazai would rather let him stay on solid-ish ground.

When he gets lifted up, he'll start pushing the hand. It's, uh, fairly large and heavy, but he can move it.]

Maybe we're... warming them with our tears?

[In the meantime Souji just stares intensely at the flowers like he's trying to will tears from nowhere. IT'S NOT... WORKING. He looks to Veronica but since he doesn't want to rub his eyes into oblivion, he'll just pluck a flower and fucking breathe pollen in until he sneezes so much that his eyes are watering. THIS IS FINE.

Here flowers, take his tears.]

... I don't think so. [GOD.] Maybe we can... I don't know. Sit around the flowers and share body warmth with them?

[TAKE THEIR TEARS, ASSHOLE FLOWERS.]

[While Dazai does that, Evan tries to help from his spot on the landing - the gust of wind that blows isn’t hard enough to move the hands of the clock on its own, but it helps, at least.]

You doing okay...?

I'm fine!

[He tries not to sound tired. It's fine, really. It doesn't take all that long to move the hands into their positions, and a silver key appears in Evan's hand.

Mostly it doesn't take that long because the flower bed is supposed to open up under them so I have no idea what would happen if only two of them were there, uh.]

Well, we might as well give it a try...

[T...time to football huddle?!

Let's say the flowerbed won't open up until all four of them are here since they need four people's worth of Body Warmth or something IT'S FINE.]

It's not like we have any other choice.

[CHOP CHOP, GUYS. Time to hug some flowers.]

[As soon as the hands are in place, Evan’s not wasting any time bringing hem both down to where Souji and Veronica are waiting.]

...How’s it going?

[Dazai gives the flowers a good once-over before sitting down.]

If you need more tears, I happen to be a master of crying at the slightest provocation!

[There's no way he can make that sound impressive, but he tries.]

[D...AZAI... PLEASE... Souji looks pretty amused but it's fine, they're doing great here.]

I think we were able to cry enough. I hope? Now we just have to warm them, somehow.

[EVERYONE HUDDLE so the ground can open up below and swallow them all whole.]

... Oh my god, don't say that like it's a good thing.

[DAZAI???

Anyway, yeah. Huddle up, yeets!]

[And huddle they do!!

Time to get swallowed up by some flowers.]

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