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TRIAL IV

Trial

Another Saturday, but this Saturday is your last Saturday. If everything holds, if everything works out. After all you've been through, are you capable of being an optimist? The carnival calls regardless, furniture arranged around as they always are with banquet table and pit in the middle.

This week's new offerings are: a fluffy loaf of a certain type of rye bread, a hearty beef stew and an assortment of fresh pies with candied fruit and cream.

For the last time, find out who killed two of your own: G'raha Tia and Sariel.

(( OOC: Welcome to your first trial! You'll have 7 hours (until 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) to vote one (1) person guilty of murder. As this is scapegoat style, a correct vote is not necessary. Please remember to vote unless otherwise discussed with the mods, as that is our AC for this game ))

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Junior?

[ ayaka notes the bruise on his shoulder. ]

What happened?

[Just clarifying: it's on his midsection! He looks...a little embarrassed.]

I was climbing a tree in the orchard when I lost my footing and fell.

[ good lord i'm jared, 19 ]

Oh, I see... um. Please be careful, okay? I don't know if we could help with a broken bone or anything.

Right...I'm sorry. It didn't feel like anything broke, so...I didn't want to worry anyone. But I should have mentioned it before this.

It's fine.

[ how fresh does that bruise look? is it already starting to heal or is it new? ]

[Pretty fresh! It doesn't look far along in the healing process to be any older than from Thursday.]

When did you fall from this tree?

It was before curfew, on Thursday.

Were you accompanied by anyone?

Me.

( life is a struggle rn but )

... He was getting me fruit, because I wasn't feeling really well. And... I was having trouble getting up.

( referring to how he just Lays Down In The Dirt when he's miserable,

his brows furrows, though - he seems really upset with himself, genuinely. his egglet is HURT because of HIM )

... I shouldn't have let him.

[Even he's picked up on that misery wafting off the other man, especially after last night, but...]

Then what happened after he fell?

I finally got up.

( FOR LOVE... for his sonion... )

... I took him back to Primrose so I could wash the bruise with hot water from the sink, and soothe the ache.

( local dragon does Not know what icing a bruise is, just knows that hot water helps/feels good, so, he, tried, )

[he did try...]

And then you parted ways?

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coldseep - 2025-04-05 21:38 (UTC) - Expand

Please don't say that. I wanted to do something nice for you.

[If he'd just been more careful, Hwylryn wouldn't have to be so worried about him now.]

You were the one that picked us fruits, a couple weeks ago.

( 🥺 he's going to cry... he looks like he will (again), too... )

... After trial... let's have some fruit together.

( He will kneel down to hug... really, really tight. )

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littlegentleman - 2025-04-05 21:51 (UTC) - Expand

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coldseep - 2025-04-05 21:55 (UTC) - Expand

What kind of fruit was it?

I was trying to get an apple. Hwylryn had picked apples and pears for Primrose, before. I thought it might cheer him up, just a little, by reminding him of that.

[As much as someone can be cheered in the face of such immense grief.]

( NO NOT HIS LITTLE EGGLET

he's not so depressed he can't worry )

Does it hurt right now? Maybe someone still has some spray...

No, it's fine. Just sore. If anyone has any of that left, I'd rather they saved it for something more severe.

[Like??? All of your injuries, Hwylryn???]

[excuse the only half-dressed man who couldn't help but eavesdrop.]

If either of you need it, I have the spray and the pain killers. Neither have been used as of yet.

[Junior has been a friend, and kids can murder too but if it's from days ago, it's probably unrelated?? At minimum, there's enough painkillers for two people so they could split it.]

Thank you. That's very kind.

[Of the two of them, he'd definitely like to insist Hwylryn potentially took something, but...that was up to him. And dragon logic is strange.]

Let Junior have both. Children shouldn't suffer.

( especially newborns like junior (newborns to hwyl) )

The pain reliever has two doses. You both can take one of those, and assuming no one has any objections, Junior can also take the healing spray. If the bruise is large, is should make it more manageable.

[he doesn't think this is what you mean but also please don't advocate overdosing a child.]

I think...maybe we should save it for an emergency.

[So much has happened this week, who knew if even more violence might occur within the next 24 hours.

Ultimately, though, he won't push it. He'll accept anything he's given if that's the consensus.]

( Junior has a good point, but... )

... At least the healing spray for him. Please.

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