theater....... (stinkbombed)

[bookpapers]

i need to find a... shitpost.... if u will

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[bookpapers]

[looks around their mess of a theater and then back at Totty. there is also some guilt here, and the emotion of 'oh ig this is up to me then'...]

We came here cause of Kate.

[who is mysteriously not here?


Lavi gestures to the trap door]

[drymonster]

What? What does that mean?

[scrapdraught]

[Just goes back to bench hauling.]

[drymonster]

[ ???? STAGE WHISPERS WITH UPSET VIBES ]

WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TELL ME THINGS??

[scrapdraught]

Personally, I can't.

[Think about it Totty....]

[drymonster]

[ HE LITERALLY DOESN'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS ]

[drymonster]

Oh. Wait.

[scrapdraught]

Yeah.

[More misery.]

[drymonster]

So she was... the other half?

[scrapdraught]

[Bites her lip. Guess it's easier once they hit the nail on the head themselves.]

I got pegged for it. She didn't.

She's been fighting off the damn thing for over two weeks now.

[drymonster]

God...

[scrapdraught]

[Camille shakes her head.]

The real trick is to not let her in on what we're doing. That was my mistake last week.

I helped her haul a coffin over to the house and hid it in her room, tied it up for her after she crawled in for the night. But because she was in on the plan, so was her monster.

[A strong surge of regret.]

When she showed up to the trial with the glitter on her, I didn't want it to be true. Because she shouldn't have had that much. Not if she was locked in.

I kept telling myself maybe she picked it up just walking around after...

[bookpapers]

[while Camille does that, Lavi will walk down the stage to join Totty]

...It's cause she's possessed. She's the one who killed Yuu last week.

[there's a upsurge of grief at the mention, and then a spike of anger that's buried by guilt]

[drymonster]

....Oh. Shit. Sorry.

How did you know?

[bookpapers]

She told me on Sunday, after I asked her if she still wanted to partner up.

[Grimacing]

[undread]

And then Yuffie and I figured it out after the letters earlier this week...

[drymonster]

[ now he's like, man, were there clues about that in MY letters and i'm just fucking stupid??? ]

[undread]

[it was more the letters to kate which i'm realizing now you did not receive.]

[drymonster]

[ yeah he only sees the mail that comes to THIS smelly shithole!!! ]

[scrapdraught]

[you can run you can hide but you will always be theatre kin

don't fight it]

[drymonster]

Oh...

[ the mood is just Well. Fuck. ]

Did she know this was going to happen tonight? I mean, is she...

[ did we like, knock her out or something ]

[bookpapers]

[yeah..... that's the mood.....

he makes a little handwave-y motion]

She knew that we'd try something, but we didn't tell her the details. Makes it harder for the monster to try and get out if Kate doesn't know.

[drymonster]

[ nods. ]

Mm. That makes sense.

[ ... ]

Um, your gross tongue in a box and whatever Kanda-kun got last week— do you have like, official arrangements for what happens to all that stuff in case...?

[ IN CASE THE MONSTER WANTS REVENGE ON YOU......... ]

[bookpapers]

[he perks up at this... thank u for reminding him??]

Right. I usually put them in the chest, but on Thursday nights I hide them under the mattress. That way someone at the house can grab 'em if I turn up dead tomorrow.

[drymonster]

Uhhhh, okay, I don't know if that's going to count for the one Kanda-kun gave you since that was entrusted to you specifically, right? So here, let me—

[ grabs his notebook paper and pen from his pocket to write something ]

I was just doing this with Alfyn and Geto-kun earlier today, so I've still got the phrasing in my head.