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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Now this.
A child with a gunshot wound, dead and having barely begun to want to live.
Barnham slams his fist into the stocks.]
How could this--!
[... Ugh.
Time to at least get Russell's body out of there and laid out peacefully, if nothing else. It's all he can do, after all.]
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She absolutely notices the blood. She can feel her heart pounding as she races into the station and sees... Nobody. Fuck. Fuck.
Is the blood part of the same trail that leads into the clinic? Either way, she's just gonna... look beneath the porch of the Sheriff's station really quick after running back out. Please don't be a repeat of Annabeth??]
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Tucked right to the side of the porch is Yuna Yuki. She is covered in blood, mauled and her throat is torn out but whoever(?) pushed her under the porch at least wanted to just... you know, give her some cover until someone could find her.
So, yeah. Yuna Yuki is dead. ]
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Then, once she takes in the blood, the sight of her throat, everything, she screams. It's raw, aching, haunted. She's never going to forget the way Yuna looks right now.
She doesn't inspect the body any further. She can't. She backs away from it instinctively, another panicked scream ripping out of her throat, and then she leans over and vomits on the ground.]
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Uh oh.
Uh oh???
Instead of making Natalie talk he'll just... take a look for himself.
Oh. ... Two dead children who both deserved better, and nobody to protect them, that is...deplorable. He turns his attention to Natalie, on his hands and knees.]
Mister Todd is not here. Go--clean yourself up, and find him. Do not...forget to breathe.
[...]
I will take care of this. [It's really the least he can do now.]
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She's... She was...
[No, he's right. Maybe not about cleaning herself up, because Jason is her number one priority, but - she has to go. She can't stay here and look at Yuna any longer. With a silent nod, she turns and leaves.
(Which is going to be fruitless since someone else has already found him but at least she tried!!)]
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She was bright, and warm, and kind. She was everything that didn't deserve to be here, suffering like this--he knows. Natalie goes, and he crawls under to get Yuna's body, cradling her in his arms in a princess carry--so that he can place her next to Russell.
And then... he sits there on the ground, arms loosely draped around his knees, and hangs his head.
What else is there to even do, at this point? All he can do is this, and he already knows it's not enough.]