Chapter 2: Abnormal Days

[iruy]

Attention everyone! A body has been found! A body! It's in the laboratory room! Hop to it! This is so exciting!

[There's an excited giggle before it cuts off.]

Comments

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[turns to stare at her with red eyes, about to argue, but the lightheadedness comes back and he just lets out a shaky sigh]

O-okay.

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

Sit down, you're looking faint again.

/boiling the potatoes, one step closer to greatness

You needed a break from that crime scene, anyway.

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[hesitantly nods and sits]

But... we cannot just take breaks when we want. Yuri wants to see us playing his game.

Somebody killed Prudence, just like Pitch killed Tony...

[shakes his head, stifling one last sob]

...

We need to find out who was the first person in the laboratory after she had died, and who came from the same floor, too. Because if-- if the one who killed her left the laboratory and stayed in a different room there, and then went back to the laboratory after some other people had come... that would be a wise thing to do for a murderer, right?

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa, slow it down there, I can't get all of this straight right now!

/draining the potatoes, let's just pretend this is a very magically efficient kitchen

First food, then thought!

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[there is no way they will accomplish anything together before she has eaten, is there]

[just silently sits and watches]

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

/mashing mashing mashing

/adding milk, butter, and garlic

/and shoving a spoonful of it into your mouth

There. Eat! It's really good!

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[swallows with some difficulty - his throat feels all closed up from crying]

Thank you.

...

Um... I didn't ask you about your name yesterday...

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

Just call me Bri, it'll make it easier on you, you kind of have trouble with English, yeah?

/digging in and shoving more into your mouth

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[tries to eat without choking]

[at least she doesn't seem to find it awkward, that makes it a bit easier; right now he thinks it would even hurt to hold cutlery]

Bri... I'll remember. My name is Jakub--

[cut short by more potatoes]

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

That's such a weird name, though. I'm probably not going to remember that. Can I give you a nickname or something instead?

/here have some more potatoes!!!!!

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[swallows dutifully]

Hm... are you English? Some of the people who I worked with in England called me Jacob, and then after a few days just Jake. And one man--

[accepts the next offered spoonful]

-- on man simply called me "Czech".

Re: uhn

[rationelle]

No, I'm American. Didn't my accent give that away?

/more potatoes in your mouth

/damn but they are good

Jake, huh? ... You're not cool enough to be a Jake.