first investigation

[stagemanagers]

[Happy Friday, everyone! The end of a long week of traumatizing motives, meetings that become Come to Jesus meetings and a menagerie of cafe cryptids. All things considered, not a bad second week in a murder school.


The school feels calm and quiet as everyone rouses themselves from sleep but quiet can be awfully deceiving.]

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[violentenvies]

[Salieri's sitting at her bedside, gently pressing one of his wet handkerchiefs to her brow]

Madame Elisabeth. How are you feeling?

[wanderlusttitania]

[She takes a shaky breath.]

W--

was that real? Was...>was he really...?!

[violentenvies]

[Salieri's brow furrows, mouth pinching at this]

...I'm afraid so, madame.

[it might be more obvious now that there's a slight tremble in his hand as he dabs her brow]

[wanderlusttitania]

......oh.........

[She buries her head in her hands as it sinks in, letting out a sob.]

How...how could someone....!?

[violentenvies]

[Seeing Sissi bury her head in her hands makes that already tight knot in Salieri's chest squeeze tighter, and he sucks in a shaky breath]

I don't know. I don't know, Madame, I--

[he's fumbling, then, hands trembling harder as he tries to pull another handkerchief out of his inside pocket.]

Here--here, use this--[and he's gently moving to ease one of her hands away, pressing it into that hand, shaking pretty badly]

[wanderlusttitania]

[She gives him a sad nod as she continually dabs her eyes. After a long silence, she finally speaks again.]

God, I...we must...we must find who did this...and why...why him?! It's too cruel...!

[violentenvies]

It is. I...I'm sorry you had to bear witness to such a thing.

[he sucks in a breath. In the silence, he's taking some hard breaths and managed to quell some of the trembling, but he might still be blinking a bit more rapidly than normal.]

...we shall discover it. Who has done such a thing. We must.