...No. You're right. I latched onto 'hallucinations' because it was the only explanation that made sense at the time, but it seems this was even more potent.
[The number of times Google has been searched for red eyes + poison is approaching an embarrassing number now]
Where the person got it from, if not as a prize...
If it isn't May and it isn't Gundam... Rapture has only awakened to the seriousness of the circumstances this week. She may have chosen to play her hand. ...Kaoru, however, is familiar with plants and medicine. Additionally, there's the matter of the secret passage, which almost certainly exists, whether or not we can find it.
[There's a ladder about halfway through through that goes up into a trapdoor beneath the stables. Otherwise, the passage continues to a door, which does have a handle on this side to open.
The passage is just as dusty and unused the whole way through.]
It matters not if there is a fancy execution, or one with a noose around the neck... Precisely as you say, the moral fault lies with the intent. Actually, it is all the better if we can secure May permanent retirement from this game.
[ She looks the most cheerful she has been since Beat's body was found. ]
Not as red as they are now. And I would have mentioned it if there was. Not just mentioned, I would have dumped the whole thing into the sink and panicked about it to everyone the second I noticed and you'd all have to deal with me reciting everything I've read in the house backwards during the trial.
...but I spoke dishonorably, because I was afraid. And so... please accept my apologies.
[ She gives an inordinately deep bow, her hands on her knees; this is another one of those culture shock things, but she doesn't think the Novoselican way of apologizing would be appropriate here. Don't ask. ]
...No one would harm her, she would go home, and if the prizes are indeed true at all [which susan privately will still doubt just because], she'll be able to save her clan.
This could very well be the best turn of events possible.
[ Sonia is so enthused by this idea that she grabs Susan's hands impulsively and squeezes them in a show of companionship. ]
Thank you... for not giving up on this case... or on anyone here. I think you may be the most admirable and valiant woman I have ever met. I have learned a lot about being a leader from you.
It's true that we planned a picnic at the chapel together, but it was my idea to leave first! Beat could have attacked her too if I had not done that and we had left together!
There's a trapdoor under the altar. From there it goes to the wine cellar with a ladder in the middle that I assume leads to the stables. The wine cellar door opens from the inside.
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