theairlock | seventh trial

[You get a little time after your investigation is over, but not too long. PAL gets bored easily and doesn't like to be kept waiting, after all.

When everyone has gathered at the elevators with their evidence, the one going down turns on automatically. It...it looks like you're taking a leap of faith into an elevator shaft, not gonna lie. But the first person to step in finds that it's a carefully-balanced anti-gravity field made to just shoot you down and deposit you gently at the end of a long hallway. Like a walk-through aquarium, the walls and ceiling are all made of thick glass, giving you an even better view of the stars outside.

You're led to a wide-open area, empty except for a circle of podiums in its center. Heart and Noctis have joined the ranks of their grey-faced photo friends. The walls here are equally transparent, and they seem to have lines of large hatches going along them, as if this is where one might park one's small short-journey craft when getting ready to go on vacation to a galaxy far far away. Shame you don't know anything about those.

You already know what you're here to do. You'd best be getting along with it.]

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But they weren't burns. [someone explain to him what frostbite looks like]

It was frostbite. Mild frostbite before the skin turns black and dies.

Then...why didn't it turn black and die? Since he's dead?

Because the ice I used melted too fast. Stuck around enough to cause some tissue damage while he was still alive.

Ice.

[Of course.]

That was the true murder weapon, was it not?

Wait, so it still has to be alive to turn black? Biology is fucking weird.

Wait.

Did you stab him with ice?

Yes. [She swings her blade in the air. It's sturdy for being ice.] Ice can be made into a nice and solid weapon.

Were you--were you trying to frame me?

Not necessarily... but remember what we were told before? The killer can't outright confess.

Yeah, but why me?

...Cuz nobody would've believed it was me.

Church. Look at my height. The only other girl around here even close to me is Pyrrha. I wasn't gonna fucking frame my own girlfriend, so you and Xander were the best targets. Except I forgot Mister Meat Wall had thighs thicker than tree trunks.

[Damn straight]

You weren't gonna frame your girlfriend, but you're gonna break her heart.

Oh, wait, the heart of two girlfriends.

Okay. Okay. Sure. Cool.

The only one that matters to me is the one in this courtroom. And I know... I don't expect her to ever forgive me, even if I would have found a way for her to survive this with me.

Coooooooooool cool cool. You know how cool this is?

You know what's cooler than being cool? Ice cold.

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...it is a commonly given example of a way to make a murder difficult to solve. Stab someone with an icicle, then allow it to melt, leaving no weapon to find.