So Satan is Gone | Week 2 Afterparty

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Well. That was a hell of a trial, wasn't it? About half an hour after everyone returned from the trial they'll receive a note under their door. (Plus Togami gets a new handwriting sample for his book.)]

This is Kurumi. I gathered up some stuff from the diner and kitchen to the Cafeteria. Come if you want. Thought we should be together.

[It's not much. Just a pot of tea, some coffee, and some of that delicious cherry pie from the diner. Get some before it runs out.]

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[kingshaming]

It is.

[he taps his pen against the page he was writing on]

I thought, was so certain, that those paintings were earnest. Awful, but earnest. He had me utterly fooled.

[tasteslikesurvival]

You know, I don't think that was a wrong assumption to make. I didn't make it but people can be weird. He was obviously not right in the head even before this though there was no indication he was that wrong. That he couldn't make an earnest effort.

[The guy killed without a motive. At least Toby had a reason to.]

[kingshaming]

I've... known people. Like that. There are some things in the mind no amount of love and patience can fix- but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try.

Now I'm worried I might have just been seeing something reflected instead of something that was really there. The Doctor was right, and we should have believed him.

['I should have believed him']

... my apologizes. I'm rambling. How are you holding up? How is Frederica?

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She's quiet about that. She really hasn't met anyone like that. Even Yuki's problems... they got better given enough time and patience. Even then, Yuki wasn't ever malicious.]

I'm fine. Ricky is taking it hard again.

[kingshaming]

She's... a soft soul. Anyone would be horrified after seeing all that. Though, speaking of:

[He reaches across the table and picks up a different book then his own, holding it out to her]

She dropped this in the gym this morning. Will you make sure she gets it? I promise I didn't peek.

[tasteslikesurvival]

She's... you're right. I've seen this kind of thing break a person down worse. She just needs someone to help her.

[She picks it up and--]

Ah--right. I'll make sure she does. Thanks, Xander.