madburnout | PRIVATE CONFLICT: BEAUREGARD

[ he does try! she appreciates it - and she appreciates it even more because she knows he doesn't know how to comfort people. this close up, he can probably see better - her hair is down, and it's covering her mask, but that doesn't stop the sickly green glow from showing.

she carefully brings her hand up to rest on his without looking at him - and he'll see her fingertips are freshly singed. ]

[Lio's dragon mask is quieter today than it has been. The eye is closed. A streak of blue, almost as if . . . Well. Twisting his hand to hold hers instead.]

We will find them.

[ she holds his hand tightly. ]

If it wasn't the monster. If someone killed him because they could. [ she says, voice choked, unsteady. ] I'll kill them.

We will make them pay.

[Squeezing the hand.]

[ a long pause, as she tries to get her crying under control. it's hard. ]

Okay. [ she says, small. ] Okay. Yeah. [ and slowly, she pulls herself up to sit. ]

[Hands her a business card that says "there, there."]

Whoever did murder for the videos-- they are a fool. It was false, the dead told us so.

Yeah. The dead told us so, and.

[ also sorry about that weird perfume smell, lio. a pause. she shifts, and shows him the note she's clutching in her hand. ]

[god what does this mean]

This appears to be the same artist as the person who communicated with Toi.

Has a money sign on the back. If it's the dead, it's Mammon.

[ it has a 💰 sign on the back of it. ]

[Huh! Well. That's interesting.]

When did you get this?

[Because the note from Toi was from before Mammon was dead.]

Earlier. [ time has been... a blur. ]

I came back here alone and the girls stopped me and sang a song. And then handed me the note.

Killing . . . is bad.

[We been knew that.]

Is it referring to the monsters? Killing the monsters is bad?

No, I don't think so. Killing the monster, once a week, is giving us more time to figure out how to get out of this. We have to find the heart.

I think it might be talking more about the motives. Those aren't real. Those are the house trying to get us to kill each other. It wants us to do that, because it wants to prove that it's a superior being. [ she sounds pretty lifeless, but she's infodumping at least. ]

Tch-- I could have told you that. I have been saying as much.

[But preaching to the choir here. I mean, he did scream at Beau herself earlier about Ayabe.]

It seems Phoenix is correct. The house itself is malevolent - it and Blue are tied somehow. It would explain how the illusions work, the effects we receive, the way evidence can hide itself until the day of trial.

[ she twitches at phoenix's name. a pause. ]

Yeah, I told him about that. I talked to Blue. They told me they're intertwined with the house and we're gonna have to separate Blue from it if we want to be truly free.

Metaphysically removing the heart.

[Hm.]

Did they provide any guidance on how to do that?

Not really. They just said to look deep inside the heart. That's all they'd give me.

The item. To look inside a place unreachable. Have you tried it?

Not yet, no. I was gonna, on the master bedroom, but - I got stopped.

Stopped?

Yeah. Blue let me in, instead.

You saw them, then.

[ . . . ]

What did . . . they've been here the whole time.

I did, yeah. They're small, and kind of cute. Blue, obviously.

[ she glances at lio. ] And kind of scared of us. Or uncomfortable with talking to us.

[Hm.]

I suppose I don't blame them. Many of us here remain unconvinced Blue is not the one responsible.

Yeah. And they're not, I don't think, not at all. I think they're trying to help us the best they can.

[ she pauses. ] They've got a flower coming out of one of their eyes. And they look like a kid. No animal ears. They did remind me a lot of the sisters, though.

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