Chapter 1: Abnormal Days

[iruy]

Attention! A body has been found! That's right, a body has been found! Report to the hallway on the way to the cafeteria! A body, I'm so proud!

[Maybe you go to the hallway. Standing in fear is Lev, staring at Jakub, who is holding Tony's bloodied corpse.]

Comments

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. Can you close your eyes? I will lead you and take care that you don't fall!

[this sudden... "normalness" of talking to people and touching them is absolutely strange, but somehow, somehow he can handle it, and not only with this girl whom he has known for just some minutes - maybe it's because all their lives depend on it, but maybe also because the whole situation in this school just feels different from any other he has experienced so far]

Keep them closed, alright? I won't do anything wrong!

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[eyes very tightly shut]

Okay. I will not look at!

[uhn]

[takes one of her hands and puts his other one on her shoulder, then steers her through the corridor, past Tony's bloody body]

[looks at her still form as he passes it by, remembering how alive she was just the other day]

[maybe it's because he is running on a minimum of sleep, but everything seems so very unreal]

...

Alright! We are around the corner.

[lets go of her]

I think it would maybe be good if you could talk to people on this side of... Tony, and I go back and look if I can do anything there?

[utterly unsure about whether his suggestions even make sense, but he wants to try]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

[opening her eyes slowly]

I can talk to them....




...about what? [confused little smile]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Um...

I'm not sure, but we have to find out who did it! I think the killer will just lie, but someone probably saw something..? What if one of our other classmates saw the killer walking around after Tony was already dead? Or-- or, if we really have a lot of luck, maybe someone will say something, on accident, that shows that it was them?

[coughs a little; his throat feels dry]

[he isn't used to talking this much at all]

orange!anon

[(Anonymous)]

Ah! You make a good point! I will ask, then!

[smiling and running off]

[only in the wrong direction towards Tony's dead body]



[a few seconds later you might hear a thud]

[she passed out on the floor]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

?!

[rushes to her side and kneels down]

[why did she do this? is her sense of orientation just that bad?]


...


[within such a short period of time he went from "trying to avoid everybody, only attempting to help when absolutely no one else is around for it" to "promised in marriage to a girl who likes trees as much as he does"]

[he feels overwhelmed, but... he has to take care of her before anything else, right?]

[hoists her up and carries her to his room - she needs a bed to lie on until she wakes up]

[he'll watch over her and put a note on the door so people looking for her (or him) will know where to knock; hopefully someone has gotten further in their investigation than they did]