The Fourth Investigation

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[Come early morning, the station is still and quiet. Nothing seems amiss in the area around your living quarters. It's a little while yet until C.E.C.E. makes her typical morning announcement, but of course you're still free to move about the station at your leisure.

Maybe you had better look around?]

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cw emeto

[andjerry]

[He has to have blocked that out, it's the only explanation, and when he sees those teeth he is done, dropping whatever he's looking at to heave an empty stomach at the floor. He's crying openly now, wiping his face and trying to deal with whatever Penny's done at the same time.]

...good thinking.

Re: cw emeto

[in4apounding]

Mister Thomas! It's- ...okay, it's really NOT okay, but- um- try to breath?!

[AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

[andjerry]

[he pulls himself together, red-faced, still breathing heavily, and for a moment shame outweighs everything else.]

I'm sorry. ...robots are kind of lucky, aren't they?

[in4apounding]

Um. I guess. In this case.

[She didn't have to smell the zombie-goo last week either.]

...Do you. Need to leave? I can. I can finish here. I think.

[andjerry]

[he shakes his head. he'd seen chloe all the way through. he'd seen becky all the way through and he'd almost been the one to kill her. he can't walk away from someone who's been more important to him in a month than almost anyone has in his entire life.]

I've done this before. We can both do it.

[in4apounding]

Okay. ...For Max.

[andjerry]

[he pulls on the gloves penny brought, insistent on being the one to touch the fingertips and wrapping them in the gauze she's cut: even if her body can take it, he doesn't know how well her soul can. it's hard to look, so he does it mostly by feel, and as much as he wants to clean them he knows what evidence tampering looks like. they can do that once they've found whatever monster did this.]

I thought we were done with this.