fourth trial

[stagemanagers]

[For a fourth time, the doors of the trial room unlock with a loud, echoing click and creak of the doors opening.

The time has come for your fourth trial.

The courtroom looks as it always does, with Hook and Javert's podiums are have been decorated just as the other dead performers are. The added lights cast even more shadows across the room and the chandelier above glitters and hangs ominously overhead. The Balladeer is nowhere to be seen again, presumably waiting behind the curtain to be needed. Once everyone is in position, his voice rings out across the courtroom.]

You guys know what to do. Let's get this over with.

Comments

[dechagny]

There is no need to apologize, Anna. You were completely in the right to scream.

[Girl you found a corpse what else were you gonna do.]

[sunshineprincess]

[Walk away as always and go hide somewhere where there conveniently were clues? Oh wait, that did happen after death scream.]

I tried not to... But Sir Javert...

[dechagny]

[Anna do you need a hug, he's not Billy but he can give you a hug if you need]

I highly doubt that, if...if he were here, he would blame you for screaming. That was...horrific.

[sunshineprincess]

[She will take a hug any day from a friend.]

You know... He might have seemed like a rough and unforgiving person, but he was rather kind and gentle deep down... I miss him...

[dechagny]

[Then he's coming over for a friend hug]

He...had a good heart, and a strong conviction to his duty. We shall all miss him.

[sunshineprincess]

[Friend hugs are the best.]

I didn't think there was anyone here who wanted him dead.

[dechagny]

Neither do I - and yet I cannot believe he would have taken his own life. [A squeeze before he lets go.] We will unravel this mystery, I truly believe it.

[But will you like the result?]

[sunshineprincess]

[She nods with a frown.] I know we will. We always do.