CALEB

[chevaliered]

how many times will i use this image? at least once more.

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w0, monday

[chevaliered]

[ one day, caleb will run into crow when he's not lying down in the grass like he's just given up on standing. but not today. he's doing exactly that, but this time he's staring blankly up at the sky with very faraway, unfocused eyes.

when he realises he's not alone, he blinks like he's coming out of a stupor, and looks around a bit before he spots caleb. ]

Don't go to Cats class.

[ hi caleb, how are you? ]

[katzepaw]

[Looking down at him, a slightly surprised expression on his face.]

You didn't like it? It's a little cute.

[chevaliered]

[ ... ]




[ he sits up ]

Wait, you liked it?

[katzepaw]

I wouldn't say 'liked it,' but I didn't dislike it as much as everyone else did, apparently.

[chevaliered]

... Wow. You're tough as nails, huh?

I'm pretty sure whenever I close my eyes I keep seeing those weird... human hands on the cat's body, and it's haunting me. All the weirdly sexual slinking around and dancing. It wasn't even enjoyable because they're all dressed as literal cats.

[katzepaw]

Hah. I wouldn't say tough as nails. Nor would I say I'm a fan of extremely human cat dancing.

[chevaliered]

You seem to have walked out of there with an un-scarred psyche, which is more than I can say for me.

[katzepaw]

That bad? Permanent damage?

[chevaliered]

Only time and maybe a few trauma related flashbacks will tell.

[ ... ]

Seriously, no Cats related side effects? No terrible music stuck in your head? Weird urges to drink milk? [ he's in awe of your power, sir. ]

w2, saturday

[chevaliered]

[ well. crow is just sprawled out with his back to the wall of the winter dorm, staring into the distance, which he either runs the events of today through his mind or… or nothing that’s exactly what he’s doing ]

Well, that was a mess.

[katzepaw]

[He's walking on his way towards the dorm, giving him a nod.]

It was.

[chevaliered]

[ he waaaaaaves ]

Figured it wasn’t going to be anything good, but there’s “not good” and then there’s that.

[katzepaw]

Yes. That's an understatement.

[chevaliered]

[ sure is. ]

Annnnd we still don't know much more about voucher distribution, not that I think it's gonna help us much more than to afford more stuff, or why people are killing.

[katzepaw]

I don't buy it anymore, that vouchers based on correctly voting, whether or not this exists, will help us solve these trials.

But clearly the count of vouchers we all have is important.

[chevaliered]

It gives us an idea of what everyone's been doing and whether they have or haven't spent it on things, sure.

But there's too much discrepency in vouchers and the fact we don't know everything we actually earn them for kinda prevents it from being a foolproof way of figuring out a killer after the fact.

[ ... ]

Guess it's a case of "get it right on the night" or not at all.

[katzepaw]

Ja. Unless the hint suggests we look back, and then it's a clusterfuck. We really had nothing, to point to the new person.

[chevaliered]

Short of hitting our heads and suddenly getting good at solving these cases, we're going to keep running into a wall if we're not careful.

[katzepaw]

So what do you suggest instead?

[Raising an eyebrow at him.]

[chevaliered]

Good question.

[ at least he's honest. ]

We are pretty easily distracted though. Not sure how to get around that.