on the third day of christmas my true love gave to me a trial to see whodunit

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WHO KILLED CHRISTMAS?

Four hours pass. Thug Dangerzone and Brasco move all the tables together (with no help from Starshine) and the "trial room" such that it is, is set. One long table with plenty of standing room if you aren't feeling like getting buddy buddy with your new best friends. No one seems to have wanted to move the body, so right next to the long table is Kido, sort of covered with the tablecloth. (Was it made to be a reminder, of what you've lost? Or are they just lazy?)

On each spot at the table is a sandwich and apple cider, and that basket sits ominously in the middle of the table as a gruesome centerpiece reminder. Next to the food is a pen and a small notebook, like the kind they use on police procedural.

After everyone is seated, or at least standing awkwardly around, Starshine goes to stand at the head of the table and claps her hands to get everyone's attention. "Hello everyone. I hope you used your four hours wisely!" She sets a piece of paper on the table, with a variety of names. "Here's your suspect list. We were doing a little digging while you guys were busy poking around, so we've determined it's one of these idiots. Please discuss among yourself who did it. When you're ready, write their name on the paper and hand it to one of us and we'll count. When a majority of you have all written the same name, we'll stop. Or, uh, I guess if you waste enough of our time."

She looks from Brasco to Thug Dangerzone and then back to the table and the gathered masses. She waves her hand in a sweeping gesture in front of everyone, "Let the Hunger Games begin!"

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Comments

[commemoration]

Oh dear... that's a terrible predicament to be in...

[trettende]

It really is. My brothers would often put spiders in my bed or come at me wearing strange masks to try and frighten me in the middle of the night. It only got worse as I got older.

[commemoration]

Really? Why would they do something so cruel?

[trettende]

They were often cruel to me. It comes with being thirteenth, I suppose.

[ That's normal!! ]

[commemoration]

... That does not sound like a good reason to be cruel to a member of one's family.

[she does not get it??]

[trettende]

Yes, well... Perhaps not.

But that was the reason they gave, nonetheless.

[commemoration]

... That was a very bad reason, and they should not have treated you that way.

[trettende]

[ Wow, that... shocks Hans. ]

...Thank you. That is very kind of you to say.

[commemoration]

You don't need to thank me for something like that. I was only speaking the truth.

[trettende]

Not many people take the time to say kind things like that.

Not unless they're being fake or trying to get in good graces with you.

[ Like some people. ]

[commemoration]

Really? I think that there are plenty of kind people in the world.

[of course you would think that, Yumemi]

[trettende]

You must be from a very different world than the one I come from.

[ Actually, Hans, your world is pretty nice? It's just your family and you that suck. ]