The town is quiet, eerily so. All animals, all chatter, all gusts of wind have come to a complete stop this morning. A tumbleweed passes by through the center of town and the rocking chair on the Sheriff's porch sways but remains silent. Everything is muted and as the door of the hotel opens, the only sensation that rings utterly true today is this:
One of your own is gone.
And now, as the rules state, it is your job to discover their fate.
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[Well, thanks for stating their names, Milla—Shinnosuke registers it. Milla, Percy, Xion. He's not surprised.
(Take a guess as to what Yuna did last night, Percy.)
He looks away (a pointless gesture when he's blind, but force of habit), his mouth pressed into a line. After a moment, he takes in a shaky breath and speaks, uncharacteristically quiet.]
Let's just assume he's picked up the habit of wearing gloves even in civilian clothes because??? He's totally bending over to poke at the arm. Maybe even lifting the arm if possible. Maybe even making the arm wave at his unfortunate partner here.
[ Well, it's a head. Of course it's a fucking head, what do you expect? It's Lust's head in particular.
Also, there's a crow in front of it. It looks up when Barnham approaches, eyeball clutched between it's beak. It swallows the eye immediately, letting out a petulant caw and then flying off.
If he looks, both of Lust's eyes are missing. Damn crows. ]
[ papika, at least, does not scream. she just freezes to stare for a moment at the head and then at the crow that's flying off, and then back at the head. she grabs onto barnham's arm before starting to walk towards lust's head. ]
I-- where's the rest of her?
[ PLEASE DON'T MAKE THEM DIVE INTO THE WATER FOR THE REST OF HER?? ]
[...well. He takes a deep breath. So much for averting a crisis?]
Remember what happened with Jason when Milla and Yuna were here last time? She might be inside. Come on. [And before Xion can protest he's. Going inside the Sheriff's station with Xion bye.]
An assistant can be a big help, though! My father was a doctor... he said he did his best work when he had someone competent assisting him.
[She smiles a little bitterly, though, at his question.]
I'm not sure I'll ever really get used to it, but... I'm glad I had something to use as a crutch, at least. [She pats the hilt of her trusty katana, which has stopped being an instrument of murder since she got here and is now more of a cane these days.] ...I'm just happy to be alive, honestly.
[Ahhhh christ. If there was one thing he wasn't expecting, it was his roommate's head on the end of the dock, missing her eyes just like that. It's gruesome, and for a long moment Barnham's frozen in place.
He'd promised her he'd protect her, because she'd been tired of this game, and had wanted to live.
Slowly, his hands clench into fists, and Papika's hands on his arm snaps him back to himself, and then he moves forward as well.
They have to see what else is going on here. It's...all he can do for her now.]
So... time to keep an eye out for zombies. Or spooky, scary skeletons. Greeeeaaat.
[he's pretty calm too, but he's fought some weird shit before. he's groaning quietly about this anyway, this is not what he wants to deal with at all.]
...Is the other one like that, too? [do they have two zombiskeletons on their hands here...]
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