SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[aubins]

[ oh shit you're right runs off to report that. ]

Oh, I'll help. Or ask you to get in line. [ smile! ]

[shiftingwinds]

[smiles back!]

You're at the front of the line. I'll be right behind you.

[aubins]

Good. I'll try and save some for you.

[shiftingwinds]

Much appreciated.

[aubins]

I did say I'd break their arm, so I guess I can start with that.

[shiftingwinds]

That's an idea. Having a broken arm would certainly make things much more difficult for them, if they did end up sticking around.

[aubins]

Unless they just went in the medbay and ruined my hard work.

[shiftingwinds]

That just means you can break it again.

[aubins]

You're so right.

[shiftingwinds]

[having said that - she briefly looks guilty, but then she remembers luca's dead and someone tried to frame ming yi for it, and she looks angry again.

It's Complicated. she takes a breath.]

...we'll figure this out. Eventually, perhaps - but we will.

[aubins]

[ a loop of sass to anger to sass to anger. ]

Eventually is better than never.

[shiftingwinds]

It is. No one can keep things hidden forever - particularly not things as brutal as this.

[aubins]

Something's got to give at some point.

[shiftingwinds]

I just hope it's sooner rather than later. This is wearing on all of us.

[aubins]

... It's bad I keep thinking it'd be nice to get one right so we know we're not condemning someone uninvolved, when I really should be thinking "it'd be nice if no one died".

[shiftingwinds]

"It'd be nice if no one died" goes without saying. [she hesitates] But it also doesn't fit the reality of the situation we're in.

[aubins]

It doesn't, no. It's purely wishful thinking.

[shiftingwinds]

Admitting that feels a little like giving up, but... we won't be able to find a way out of this if we refuse to accept reality for what it is.

[aubins]

We can at least start solving cases and stop giving the killers a free pass to getting away with it.

[shiftingwinds]

Right.

[she grits her teeth]

...I'm so sick of doing that.

[aubins]

....


Think if we put a sign up -- "Please contain your murderous rampages to two rooms" -- they'd listen?

[shiftingwinds]

I doubt it. None of us seems all that inclined to read signs.

[aubins]

[ (7 rings voice) that sign can't stop us because we can't read ]

...

There's got to be a better way to organise where we look and how we figure out where we're looking.

[shiftingwinds]

We tend to start off asking what we noticed when we woke up, and when we go out to check around the base for clues...

[hmm]

It might be hard to get everyone around to share where they were when we fell asleep the day before, but for people who go to investigate the base, maybe we should make a habit of meeting up with each other to discuss what we found right away on Friday. Then, on Saturday, we have however many places that we know we can start looking at right away while the rest of us are discussing what happened when we slept and sorting out what might be significant.

[aubins]

Ask around, make a list and collaborate the information first thing? Or at the very least, some people could stay behind and catch up on any we've missed, while some go and explore places we are sure will have something.

[ it's... a thought. ]