Week 0 - March 31st

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Week 0: Investigation

The deadline is fast approaching and the one thing that should be on everyone’s minds is, “what’s going to happen now?” Last night there was a strong thunderstorm, and thanks to it the air still feels cold, moist, and even a little murky. Droplets of water cover many surfaces outside, and there are few clouds hanging in the sky. It’s rather fitting weather given, in just a few hours, all of your lives will be claimed. Have you made peace with this seemingly unavoidable outcome?

Whether you have or haven’t, it would appear your musings are doomed to be interrupted. Outside the motel sirens can be heard as a patrol car zooms by. Maybe nothing’s wrong, and maybe it’s something unrelated to everyone’s current situation.

...but, even if it is, how many of you can really sit around and do nothing? The events of the 30th proved how eager to help some of you are—enough so to put even your own lives in danger.

Abruptly, the patrol car makes a sharp turn and disappears out of sight.

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[clearities]

Ho~e? [She blinks several times, a little confused at first.] Can I see what you're holding there, squirrel-san? [She puts out her hand, as if to see if the squirrel will give it to her. If not, she can probably just see it from here, probably. But she doesn't want it to eat whatever it's holding, either...]

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[Apparently you can't, Sakura, because talking to the animal spooked it. There it goes, running as fast as possible towards trees some distance away from where the head was found.

It climbs a tree and gets inside a hole in the trunk of that tree, getting out a few seconds later without whatever it had in its paws, and climbs further up the tree]

[clearities]

Aaah--!! [She was trying to keep her voice gentle as to not spook it, too! But she'll definitely follow it where it goes (thankfully, Sakura's a fast runner) and sees if she can't find what it was holding somewhere around here.]

[cartesio]

[The hole in the tree is easily reachable. Inside there's a lot of nuts, someone is already working hard to gather food for the winter! There's something metallic glistening in one of the piles of nuts.

Jackpot!]

[clearities]

[Okay, she's definitely grabbing that metallic thing. It's probably bad for the poor thing. What is it though?]

[cartesio]

[It is...it is...!

It's a bullet. There's faint streaks of blood on it]

[clearities]

Hoeeeeeeeeee-- [THAT'S LOUD, SAKURA, YOU'RE GONNA SPOOK EVERYONE but okay, cool, she's done here. But she does think it's strange that she found a stray bullet, considering. Bullets don't decapitate???? Not that she wants to think about that.]