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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[employeeoftheyear]

[He almost immediately goes to hugs his legs when he sits down. His mind somehow feels both empty and swirling with thoughts at the same time and he can't focus on a single thing.

Water... water does sound nice right about now. And it's not something that would be very hard for one of them to get.

Through his sobbing he manages to speak.]

...I'd like some water.

[howtheworldwas]

[ Eurydice nods, mostly at Orpheus. Once Spongebob is settled on the bed,she stands. ]

Okay. I'll be right back.

[ And with that, she'll walk briskly down to the kitchen. There, she'll take a few deep breaths, trying not to let the situation overwhelm her. She needs to focus. She won't be any help upset.

Eurydice returns with some water, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a cookie sheet to use as a tray. The eggs aren't quite as good as Spongebob makes them, but they're decent. Even though he didn't specifically request it, he should probably eat something, and these will be pretty mild.

She passes Spongebob the tray. ]

Here. Just slow down, and eat or drink what you can. Don't worry about finishing it if it's too much.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus just sits quietly with him while they wait for Eurydice to come back, swallowing down the spike of anxiety he feels when she leaves the room. It's fine. Whatever happened to Mumble - it won't happen to her. She's just going to the kitchen. It's fine.

He breathes out a quiet sigh of relief when she returns anyway, though, and turns his attention back to Spongebob. ]

The best thing we can do right now is keep our energy up and just... keep going. Try to think about now. Focus on your breathing. Everything else can wait, for now.

[employeeoftheyear]

[Spongebob shakily takes both the eggs and water, taking the tiniest sip before just... sitting there for a bit, trying to breathe. He has to listen to Orpheus.]

I just... I just don't get why...

[He wants to talk so badly but words keep getting lost in him, and all the screaming made his throat incredibly hoarse.]

[howtheworldwas]

[ Eurydice joins Spongebob on the bed, once again very close to touching him, but not quite. ]

Sometimes there isn't a why. Sometimes it just is.

[ That's never an easy lesson to learn. Eurydice kind of hates that Spongebob is learning it now. ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus is quiet, at that. He doesn't have answers. He hadn't expected anything like this to happen, can't get his head around the fact that it did. So he just nods along with what Eurydice says, distracted as he tries not to think of how pale Mumble looked, laid out on the bench. ]

It's - It'll be okay. It has to be. We'll figure something out.