Audience: White

[probe]

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[enfangs]

Wraaaath, why am I being given a multiple-choice pop quiz?

[...]

A memory, maybe...? Weirdly detailed for just a made-up illusion.

[probe]

[they laugh a little at that.] Because! You're smart, I know you can get there on your own.

Okay, so it's a memory - why do you think you saw it? What do you think prompted it? What would be the point? Don't just say you don't know, really try for me, babe.

[enfangs]

[DESPERATELY FRIES HIS BRAIN]

...

?

???????

[he's trying]

[probe]

[WHITE DKJFSKKF

wrath just. rubs their face. they're amused, though.]

It didn't seem like anything you've seen here, right?

[enfangs]

Nope. So, uh, it's someone's memory? Someone... significant to this place, or something?

[probe]

Sort of? It was a lot different than what usually happens here, though.

[enfangs]

Yeah. It didn't, uh, look like it was in outer space, for one.

[probe]

It probably wasn't, if you saw what I think you did.

[enfangs]

Okay...

[...

that was as far as he got.]

Is the part where it was also probably about an execution relevant, or...?

[probe]

Yeah. What was different about our executions and that one?

[enfangs]

Uh... that one involved a car instead of another person?

[probe]

I - well. Uh, yeah, I guess that's one... way to put it.

It was... less of a fight, right?

[enfangs]

Oh. Oh! Yeah. It was more of like... an actual execution, I guess. Minus the driving into a burning pit part.

[probe]

Yeah! Yeah.

Now you know why we were so surprised when Beauregard and Endorsi went up against each other.

[enfangs]

But you were expecting an execution of some kind, right?

[probe]

I think expected is not the word. I think, uh. We more were just... resigned to it? Or at least I know I was.

[enfangs]

'Cause of the thing you're, uh, trying to lead me to figure out?

[probe]

[snort.]

Sure, uh huh. [...]

I think... I think things are just going to happen the way they're going to happen. But I don't know if I could live with myself if you guys didn't have at least a little bit of hope. So that's what I'm trying to do, I guess. Give you guys hope.

Keep looking. Work together. You'll make it work, one way or another.

[enfangs]

... Well, we'll definitely try, at least.

[he wants to believe. if nothing else, it's not like he has much left to lose. advantages of being dead!]

That brings me to my next thing, though. I know you said not to ask, but I'm going to: can I get another power?

[probe]

[they laugh at that.]

Sure. I like you, so. What do you need it for?

[enfangs]

This is why you're the best! [a beat] I'm not sure if wrath is exactly something that helps here, but something to help deal with the murders or figure the truth out? Along those lines?

But I'm not that picky.

[probe]

Nah, I think I got something in mind. Come here.

[they hold out their gloved hand!]

[enfangs]

[he takes wrath's hand!]

[probe]

[instantly, he feels a rush of warmth run through his body, head to toe. and he realizes instinctively that he now is in possession of a boon called Intimidation Check - he can now force the truth out of one person!]

[enfangs]

[he pauses, letting it sink in, before he grins.]

... Hey, neat! No idea what I'd use it for yet, but I'll check in with Mineo.

[read: designate the braincell to someone smarter than him.]

Thanks, Wrath!