SHEILA

[aubins]

this is santa clarita diet, right?

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[aubins]

[ wordlessly, he just going to lift up a bottle of wine. good choice or nah?

his phone is also on the bar. it's been a texting kind of day. ]

[toesies]

[She nods at the bottle and joins him, sighing.

What a day...]

[aubins]

[ he will just pour her a glass. ]

To maybe, potentially, although we aren't entirely sure, not fucking it up?

[toesies]

[She accepts the glass, raising it to clink clink against his own.]

Cheers wouldn't quite apply here...

[aubins]

Commiserations? Or just a really heavy sigh?

[ clink clink, sheila ]

[toesies]

Why not both?

[aubins]

Here's one then:


Shit.

[ and he takes a drink. ]

[toesies]

Fuck!

[She follows suit, downing her wine in one go. Whew.]

[aubins]

Beautifully done.

[ he will not down his in one, but he does take another sip. ]

...

What the hell though.

[toesies]

I know... What the fuck was that?

[aubins]

Complicated, is what it sounds like. I'm pretty sure we got someone on a technicality, rather than actually finding who killed Eleanor.

[toesies]

I'm pretty sure, too. Apparently, Wrath said the results glitched because Misa "didn't go through with it"...?

[aubins]

That's what I've heard. Apparently that was the cause of her injury as well? Punishment for not going through with what she intended to do.

...

I can't say I'm upset about that though?

[toesies]

... Huh. Well, that's good to know.

[Tilting her head, she snorts.]

Neither am I. Harrowhark tried to talk her out of it, you know? If you ask me, she fucked herself over.

[aubins]

If someone tries to talk you out of something, and you still go through with it, you take the responsibility all on your shoulders.

That's just how it is.

[toesies]

Exactly! And yet there she was, crying like she didn't deserve to get called out on her bullshit.

[aubins]

Technically she didn't kill anyone.

[ slow slow wine sip. ]

Technically. Not that it matters when it was only outside intervention that stopped her.

[toesies]

Attempted murder is still pretty fucking bad. She's not getting brownie points for stopping only because she was literally cursed.

[She huffs! And tops herself off.]

[aubins]

She wanted them though.

[ siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. if this was tea, that'd be It. ]

And she was awake during the night as well, so it sounds like this place is keyed into intent to murder and that's how people find themselves awake.

[toesies]

What a bitch.

[Siiiiiiiiiip!!!]

Seems like it. And Grace was awake because Misa wanted to kill her, so... This place really does give preferential treatment to killers.

[aubins]

Almost like it wants us to kill. Fancy that.

[ ... ]

That being said? Other than having the element of surprise, there's always a chance the killer could be caught off balance during these things.

[toesies]

Yeah... Give someone a taste of their own medicine. I wouldn't convict them.

[Self-defense kills are super valid.]

[aubins]

I don't think I would either.

But we'd have to miraculously catch one of the previous killers to stop that choice from slipping, the closer we get to the end.