lucretia

[katzepaw]

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[katzepaw]

[He will sit, too.]

Tsuyukusa, Maya. . . it is really going to make us suffer for refusing to play along.

[ambiography]

-it is. Results like this are-- the kind of thing it likely wanted, if it couldn't force us to go with the original plan. Just hurting us how it can.

[katzepaw]

Denji doesn't deserve this. I didn't want Maya hurt, but he's a good kid. Strange, but sweet.

[ambiography]

I know. He's... he's been trying.

[...she's quiet, a moment, before:]

He wanted to save the rest of us here. To get all of us home. He tried to sacrifice for that, on our trip.

[katzepaw]

Yeah. I think it's harder for him to express things than other people here, because he has been through a lot.

[ambiography]

Nobody would have deserved this, but-- god. It's still a little hard to believe it turned out this way.

[katzepaw]

He was the most suspicious, because of the goggles - it was hard for me to believe the phone would have been the most important evidence if all it meant was someone other than a Winter committed that murder.

[ambiography]

...there had to have been something else to that, but-- we just didn't know what it was.

[katzepaw]

I . . . was a little afraid Ichiro was not telling the truth.

[ambiography]

[oh. she looks a little surprised, at that, glancing up.]

-do you still think that's a possibility, Caleb?

[katzepaw]

I do think so. [But I'm only saying this to you because I know you care for him]

He told me later he knew Maya was guilty, but wouldn't say why.

[ambiography]

[...god. how much am I going to have to worry over you, Ichiro. she just reaches up to rub at her temples.]

Maybe he was just... very sure of his theory.

[katzepaw]

He didn't say sure, he said knew. I don't think so. There's something else there, but he is very upset tonight and I didn't want to push it.

[ambiography]

...understandably so.

[she just falls quiet, there, though, her thoughts not quite coming across.]

[katzepaw]

Yeah. [. . .] Whatever it is, I do not intend to hurt him. It disgusts me, the people who are being caught up in this.

[ambiography]

...if you're right, then knowing Ichiro-- I think what happened is going to hurt him enough, anyway.

But I feel similarly.

[as always: this place is terrible to people.]