Audience: Grace Monroe

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[alteracion]

I was giving you the chance to tell me yourself!
But good. You looked pretty bad when you came out.

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Would it help at all if I said that it looked much worse than it felt?

[no, because you also looked like you needed to be put out of your misery you stupid fuck.]

[alteracion]

No. You don't even know what you looked like????? You lost your eyes????

I can't believe you still showed up on Saturday. I bet you've never taken a single sick day as a prosecutor.

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You don't know what I looked like either? My hood was still up, I presume.
I feel as though confirming or denying that is a trap, so I'm going to plead the fifth.
And considering Miss Amane had plans to kill you, naturally I had to show up.

[alteracion]

[ well. she had other things to say but there's a beat. it's a good thing these aren't smartphones where he can see the [...] of her typing before she settles on: ]

You showed up for me?

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[oh.]

Among other reasons, yes.
Is that truly so surprising?

[alteracion]

No.
A little?
I don't know.

What were the other reasons? Besides you being a workaholic.

[probe]

The truth, mostly.
I had absolutely no faith that Miss Amane wouldn't try to spin a story to make herself look innocent and also try to pin things on you.
...and I suppose lying in bed uselessly really doesn't suit me.

[alteracion]

it's not useless if you're healing, genius :P

...But I was worried about that too. If I brought it up.
It was just her word against mine until we got more info.

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Admittedly I'm not sure how much healing I was doing on my own.
I presume that's why you didn't speak up at the beginning.

[alteracion]

How does that work?

And yes. Pretty much. I didn't want people not to believe me, and I wasn't so sure she did kill Eleanor either.

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...thinking too much doesn't exactly lead to a peaceful resting period, I'm afraid.
You were left in a rather difficult position where there was so little evidence pointing in either direction. All the more reason it was unfair.
Did you know why you had awoke on Thursday night?

[alteracion]

Not at first.
And even when I saw Misa, I wasn't sure if it was real. I barely even talked to her before?
But I knew it wasn't a dream when I woke up. And her name didn't come up as a victim.

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And by then it was difficult to decide what to do. Understandable.
...did you speak to her at all yesterday after the trial?

[alteracion]

No.
I don't want to hear anything she had to say. I heard enough in trial.

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Fair enough.

[that seems like all they'll say...]

Maus and I are at the dog park. I'm afraid I've neglected him a bit these last few days.

[if grace wants to join them, since their texts are starting to rack up.]

[alteracion]

[ well! of course grace wants the dog what the fuck

which is to say grace will gladly join them at the dog park, immediately crouching and offering maus a... normal dog treat and not a bone. once was enough. ]

Hiiii Mauuus. Aren't you the best dog in the whole park?

[ unlike eleanor's stupid fire breathing dog ]

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[greed and maus are sitting on the grass in the dog park, which means that when grace approaches with a treat maus is immediately on his feet and barking happily to snatch it from her fingers.]

Mind your manners, Maus. [maus drops the treat and wags his tail with a small yip of thanks before taking it again. his treat now.]

[alteracion]

[ grace sits down next to them both, immediately going for petting the dog thank ]

I know it was probably just scared, but I'm still mad at that other dog. Maus is so much better. [ :/ ]

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[maus armycrawls his way closer to grace to be in petting range while eating his treat.]

Are you mad because it incinerated the shrimp, or because it didn't stay behind?

[alteracion]

Kinda both? I don't think the shrimp were that important, but. That was a little annoying too.

[ but really bitch could have stayed instead of running off after she made the effort to find it. damn. maus is getting ALL the pets instead ]

[probe]

I imagine it's because the dog wasn't relevant to the case after that. Perhaps it heard a sound only it could hear to beckon it back to the park?

[maus is perfect and it shows that greed is biased when they scritch their dog on his widdle head.]

[alteracion]

It sounds weird when you put it like that. [ it's fine maus is getting all the pets from two people now ] I mean, so long as it's fine or whatever. But who knows, maybe we could have used it to check everyone to see who killed Eleanor.

[ she's kidding ]

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While that wouldn't be the most unorthodox method I've seen used in a courtroom, I don't think that would have gone quite as you imagine.

[alteracion]

I mean, I figure he'd have just set anyone and everyone on fire...

[ a beat and she leans forward, eager ]

What do you mean, not the most unorthodox you've seen?