sixth trial

[airlockedmods]

[Six weeks, thirteen Champion dead out of their original twenty as well one half of the former Overseer pair. With Jamie now counted as a fellow Champion in the Benefactors' eyes, their numbers have dwindled down to eight.

C.E.C.E.'s announcement sounds and for what may be the last time the Champions must file to the teleporter with their evidence and the Champion Landscape Artist now officially among them. The courtroom is empty this time around, the floating platform as empty as the updated circle of surviving Champion's podiums. Jamie makes a small, humorless sound when he sees the lack of a portrait at Lightning's podium and his own name in glaring green where she once stood.

There's no Bolton to speak to them this time around so it's C.E.C.E. whose voice rings from on high.]

Welcome, Champions, to the courtroom. Eight of you have entered, but if you vote correctly only seven of you will leave. Compile your evidence and select the correct culprit is. If you vote correctly, the culprit will be executed and the rest of you will be allowed to go back upstairs.

Thank you!

Comments

[kingshaming]

Of course, Doctor.

[The cuts are rather clean cut and long, and very fresh.

But also rather shallow- too shallow to be from gripping a blade barehanded.]

[stitch_in_time]

[And there are multiple cuts, unlike the one clean cut on Bolton's neck...]

[Anything to indicate that they actually came from digging in the garden?]

[kingshaming]

[None. No splinters or the like, and no sign they have healed at all]

[stitch_in_time]

...How'd you manage to clean these?

[Xander. Xander, please.]

[kingshaming]

The greenhouse has water for the plants. We would have been in even more dire straights if the lockdown cut us from water as well as sleep.

[stitch_in_time]

[Deep breath. He's so sorry, Xander.]

...These look really fresh. I'm sorry, but- were you involved in Bolton's death. Willing or not.

[Dammit. Dammit. Dammit to the deepest pits of Dalek Hell, which probably isn't actually a thing beyond just Being A Dalek.]

[imnotfat]

Xander and Jane were the other two people to find the body.

[And there we go. In Togami's opinion, it was either Xander or Jamie. They both are the only two people Togami can see being trusted enough by Bolton to allow them to kill him]

Whether that's important or not is up to you.

[cyan_maid]

Mister Xander woke me up in the bar.

[That's all she'll add. She doesn't know where he was before that. Besides, it's. It's fine. It's probably fine. Totally fine right guys.]

[ratherdoweddings]

And if he was facing the mirror when he died, it was someone he didn't think would attack.