[it's a surprise to them, too, but sometimes things happen. they seem to stop again, trying to decide if they want to actually continue but in the end it seems they think harrow may benefit from hearing this.]
For several years I worked alone as well. And while working alone meant securing every single victory no matter the cost, it made the first loss much harder.
I would like to see you succeed, Miss Nonagesimus. But I don't believe in forcing people to feel a certain way either.
[i.e. harrow needed to come to that conclusion on her own.]
[Her thoughts immediately go to the Mithraeum. She had been so confident once, and then she woke up, damaged and incomplete, a disappointment to her god and her teachers and to herself. All of that might have been bearable if she had had anything else but her cold memories, the awareness that her failure meant wasting gifts given to her out of obligation, by people who had no love of her.]
. . .When we ask to look around during trial, you never take us where there's nothing to find. Correct?
[this should perhaps not be the thing that they vibe on, but at the same time this sure is a thing they vibe on. it's something greed is aware of when it comes to harrow and it is, maybe, exactly why for once greed actually seems to know the appropriate things to say in a way that can be understood.
they also respect harrow asking questions, and there's a nod.]
Correct. Anywhere you are led, there's evidence to be found. However, it's the job of the defense and the prosecution both to decide what this evidence means and how it could deliver a guilty or innocent verdict.
[A small smile at that. What does that even mean.]
Who is meant to be whom? No, no, I only ask because there was a location today that was odd. It contained only a half eaten piece of pizza, a note that Childe immediately admitted was his, and a Bopper toy.
That would depend on who is on trial, wouldn't you agree? Those who wish to seek justice for the people lost would be the prosecution, and those who wish to protect the culprit would be the defense.
[and then...they pause.]
Did it not occur to any of you to simply ask Lust? They were at the trial.
Correct. A word of advice, Miss Nonagesimus: everything you find is of importance somehow. But not everything you find is related to the case you're currently trying to solve.
Over time, I hope you'll come to learn the difference.
Both weeks, there have been item that doesn't make sense to me, in that I can't understand where it came from. I have not yet been able to determine the province of the skull. I inspected the skeleton belonging to Ashiya Douman and found it dissimilar; I considered it was an item requested that week, but all of those went wrong in certain ways. Likewise, I cannot fathom where someone came to have that bopper in the planetarium. [By the way I know it's a Bop-It, I just think it's funny for her to keep getting it wrong.]
It was similar in some ways to the boppers from the first week, but we all surmised those were involved in Tamaki Suoh's murder - a wish he made, perhaps. The similarity may be a coincidence. But we all heard something before we fell asleep related to the skull on the first week, and the bopper on the second.
Interesting. [be more cryptic, greed.] Perhaps taking note of any odd sounds on Thursday evening will help you in ruling out what is and isn't evidence to pursue in trial.
The greater connection may not be clear yet. But I do suppose it's worth remembering these sounds for now.
The importance of what you must and mustn't solve is really up to you. Some of you may find it's meant to be solved and others of you may not care regardless.
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For several years I worked alone as well. And while working alone meant securing every single victory no matter the cost, it made the first loss much harder.
I would like to see you succeed, Miss Nonagesimus. But I don't believe in forcing people to feel a certain way either.
[i.e. harrow needed to come to that conclusion on her own.]
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[Her thoughts immediately go to the Mithraeum. She had been so confident once, and then she woke up, damaged and incomplete, a disappointment to her god and her teachers and to herself. All of that might have been bearable if she had had anything else but her cold memories, the awareness that her failure meant wasting gifts given to her out of obligation, by people who had no love of her.]
. . .When we ask to look around during trial, you never take us where there's nothing to find. Correct?
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they also respect harrow asking questions, and there's a nod.]
Correct. Anywhere you are led, there's evidence to be found. However, it's the job of the defense and the prosecution both to decide what this evidence means and how it could deliver a guilty or innocent verdict.
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[A small smile at that. What does that even mean.]
Who is meant to be whom? No, no, I only ask because there was a location today that was odd. It contained only a half eaten piece of pizza, a note that Childe immediately admitted was his, and a Bopper toy.
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That would depend on who is on trial, wouldn't you agree? Those who wish to seek justice for the people lost would be the prosecution, and those who wish to protect the culprit would be the defense.
[and then...they pause.]
Did it not occur to any of you to simply ask Lust? They were at the trial.
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[Ugh. Stupid!!]
Childe admitted it was his, so it seemed irrelevant, except. Plainly we wouldn't have been led in here if there was nothing of note to find.
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Correct. A word of advice, Miss Nonagesimus: everything you find is of importance somehow. But not everything you find is related to the case you're currently trying to solve.
Over time, I hope you'll come to learn the difference.
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Both weeks, there have been item that doesn't make sense to me, in that I can't understand where it came from. I have not yet been able to determine the province of the skull. I inspected the skeleton belonging to Ashiya Douman and found it dissimilar; I considered it was an item requested that week, but all of those went wrong in certain ways. Likewise, I cannot fathom where someone came to have that bopper in the planetarium. [By the way I know it's a Bop-It, I just think it's funny for her to keep getting it wrong.]
It was similar in some ways to the boppers from the first week, but we all surmised those were involved in Tamaki Suoh's murder - a wish he made, perhaps. The similarity may be a coincidence. But we all heard something before we fell asleep related to the skull on the first week, and the bopper on the second.
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A question for you. Do you suppose the skull and the bopper are related to one another? Or are they separate entities?
[it is a bop-it but greed also would call it a bopper because it's pointless to them.]
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. . . I cannot fathom their relation. But a sound related to both items was heard before nightfall.
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The greater connection may not be clear yet. But I do suppose it's worth remembering these sounds for now.
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Would we have been taken to a location if it only had evidence of the sort we ought not to pursue at trial?
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[as harrow may have noticed, the evidence really does just disappear on its own on saturdays.]
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[She's still curious about the pizza and the note - a strange thing to find. But she'll put that thought aside for now.]
Then there is something we are meant to solve, besides the murders themselves.
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No. That's more to do with ambivalence more than anything.
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[That's. . . not what she expected.]
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