Second Investigation

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[This week should have been quiet enough. There was no motive, after all, and all anybody had to do was go to their group therapy session. But the dwindling food supplies have left things tense, and the screaming robotic animals haven't helped much either, have they?

There's no blood outside the cells today. But there is a strong and rather unpleasant smell lingering in the air...]

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cw: burnt body

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[The smell inside the room is horrendous, like burnt hair and roasted flesh. For obvious reasons: there is a body lying on the floor of the Room of Fire, near one of the open flames. It is not currently on fire, but the damage has been done; everything above the shoulders is charred, flesh blackened and peeling.

This could have made identification difficult, but you can always do a headcount. More importantly, what few strands of unburnt hair remains are long and blue.

Erika Furudo is dead.]

[canted]

[Well.

He can't say he's sorry.]

Re: cw: burnt body

[heartswapped]

[MOZU


HOW THE FUCK DID NEITHER OF US NOTICE ERIKA WAS MISSING]

[andneversaydie]

[LOOK SOMEONE DIED LAST FRIDAY MAYBE SHE TRIED TO GET A HEAD START IF IT HAPPENED AGAIN????]

[andneversaydie]

[OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO HER OTHER ROOMMATE JESUS CHRIST]

Oh.

...

[...she's. gonna Leave, looking pale and kind of... uh. yeah.]

[heartswapped]

Sweet pea?

[She's just going to. Stand there.]

You need a moment?

[andneversaydie]

...

[NODS BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T WANT TO OPEN HER MOUTH...]

[heartswapped]

[She's just gonna...lead Mozu outside. Far away enough so that they're not standing RIGHT on the blood smears, but close enough that they can still easily go back there if needed.]

Just...breathe.

[andneversaydie]

[deep breath. deeep breath.]

M...maybe they'll have something in that infirmary room. Some... stuff.

[mozu no, there's probably another corpse in there.]

[heartswapped]

You wanna check?

[If nothing else, she can just have her sit down a while...

If Mozu's up for it, sure. She'll head over to the infirmary.]

[chides]

[ well that's not something he's seen before, despite being a firebender. christ.

mako can't look at this for much longer. ]

[ebonyknight]

[Guess... she's... just going to block the view from the door again.]

Really now.

[goldrighthand]

Apparently.

[he moves to kneel by the corpse]

So much for her sleuthing.

[ebonyknight]

She did keep sticking her nose in things.

[goldrighthand]

And it seems someone took offense.

[dobedoo someone has dibs on investigating this body at least. It's gross but not the worst he's seen.]

[tokencanadian]

[WELL THIS ISNT GREAT

Pyrrha has never seen a person so badly burned, she has to look away after a moment and try to compose herself.]

[power_of_dominance]

[Soma lays a hand on her shoulder. He doesn't look sad, just grim. He didn't like Erika, but no one deserves this.]

No one will think less of you if you need to leave the room. Do you want help looking elsewhere for clues?