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Third Trial

[Once again, the sound of opening doors echoes through the opera house as the investigation draws to a close.

Time for your third trial.

The courtroom looks the same as ever, save that Darla and Eliza's podiums are now arranged in the same funerary fashion as the other deceased cast members. The lights from the bulbs standing in their places seem to cast the rest of the house even more in shadow, even as the crystal chandeliers still glitter dimly above. The Balladeer is hidden backstage once more, somewhere behind the red curtain drawn shut across the stage. Once everyone's taken their places, he speaks up.]

Alright. Let's do this.

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I am awaiting my rum, Billy.

You'll be waiting a while.

I hope it'll be quality then, Harris.

Do you ever have anything useful to say, or has the syphilis just totally eaten away at your brain?

[he turns back to billy at his podium]

How do you keep doing that, boy?

Doing WHAT? I've been here the whole time!

Moving so quickly.

...Yeah it's syphilis.

Syphilis?...Wait, but they cured that. Humans. Humans did.

Edited 2016-11-05 20:39 (UTC)

Only if it's treated. And our poor, disabled friend here is from long before the advent of penicillin.

..........

[Penicillin was the 1930s when Darla was but Billy said--and then she had said--!?]

Captain? I never got the chance to ask. What was the year for you?

Edited 2016-11-05 20:44 (UTC)

Neverland has no time, nor does it have aging.

Neverland...but what about, um, before you lived there?...You lived elsewhere right?

[Unless you are a literal infant and that is a terrifying thought]

Edited 2016-11-05 20:47 (UTC)

The early 1900s. Hook was a graduate of Eton College in 1894.

...Where's Eton?

Edited 2016-11-05 20:55 (UTC)

It's only the most prestigious boarding school in England!

Edited 2016-11-05 20:59 (UTC)

...are you sure? You look a little...old to have graduated so...soon?

[You sure it's not a nursing home?...]

Hook is incredibly sure!

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solomonjihad - 2016-11-05 21:15 (UTC) - Expand

You graduated college?

[Somehow, this makes the fact that he never graduated high school even worse for Seymour.]

At the top of my class, boy.

[Why does this week keep getting worse?!]

But how?

[No seriously, you refuse to believe that two separate people can look similar to each other.]