outdistanced | turbo heaven 🌼 firefly

[ it takes a moment, but he ends up shifting to run his hands through his hair, expression pained. ]

I- I really wanted to know who did that to him.

[ instead they found that daigo killed elysia. two other adults he liked.

this place sucks. ]

[ She takes the seat next to him. Even though she doesn't need much sleep, she is tired. ]

I did too. I really... Really wish we could've solved both.

Me, too. There was - so much happening, but we had to have missed something. It's not like we had nothing at all, but still...

We had pieces, but I don't think we managed to pull them all together on time. I know he managed to hit his attacker with his spear. [But plenty of people didn't strip.]

And we didn't get to the sand until so late.

The problem is that we hardly even had a short list to work from, unless the boots were involved. Maybe that shirt, but anyone can wear a shirt in a bigger size.

And now everything's gone, so we can't even try to narrow it down from there anymore.

[Man. They really didn't have much to go off of.]

Why does everything disappear like that...?

To make it even harder? I don't know. It's stupid.

...

I really hate the way this place works.

You and me both. It's bad enough just having nine hours for one murder, but two?

I wish they'd give us more time. Are the rules of heaven really that strict?

Seems that way. Though it doesn't make sense at all. You'd think "god" would want us to do justice for the dead or something.

Do you have gods where you're from?

I don't really know what to expect of Them. If this is supposed to be normal or if this is wrong.

I don't know. Maybe. There's some people in the Tower that believe in God and they might swear up and down that He is real, but there's no real proof. At least none I've heard of - it's all just stories.

[ he stares at the ground, clenching and unclenching his hands into fists. ]

From what the angels have said, it's not normal. And the history here supports that.

[ She doesn't really have gods, Aeons exist, but they've never cared for what a mortal might want. Simply embodiment of concepts, for better or worse. ]

So none of this is normal, and we're just the unlucky group that has to deal with it. Whatever is in Heaven, that's always been here waited for this long to strike?

...I don’t know. It sounds like it isn’t supposed to be here, whatever it is.

It's some shit luck for us to be the only ones having to deal with it.

My luck's always been pretty awful... But that really shouldn't have to reflect on anyone else.

But you still stay positive...?

[ girl how ]

I don't think it's all on you, Firefly. If it's anyone's fault, it's whoever set out to ruin this whole thing from the start.

I try my best. [Because what other choice is there? She can't just do nothing with a life as fleeting as she has.]

Should we go looking at suspicious places again when another island pops up? To see if we can find anything?

I was thinking about it. Zhongli and I...

[ sorry he has to pause, he's still a little choked up about the whole thing. ]

...We checked out the basement this week, but didn't really find anything. But I don't want to stop looking.

[She reaches a hand out to put on his shoulder, as steadying as she can manage. But... Comforting people isn't something she has much experience with.]

It's okay. Let's... Try looking together and see if we can find anything useful or unusual.

[ that's fine. he nods, after a moment. ]

It sounds like that's the best thing we can do. Just keep looking around, and keep trying find whoever got away today.

We'll do whatever we can. Maybe there's still a way to find them...

The evidence is gone, but I'm going to try to look. There was that list of people who fit the shoes, right?

[ the one that laurence was also on. he doesn't want to think about that. ]

That's as good a place to start as any.

That's true... Richie, Jacopo, Mizu,... [Laurence himself], Claude, Akihiko, and Yves.

Yves had so many injuries on him, I don't think he'd be successful. Zhongli was extremely good with the spear.

You could argue that about Richie or Claude, too. [ richie with one arm, claude with a broken arm. ] I don't know if Akihiko would know how to fight something like that. Jacopo can fight, but I don't know how well. And Mizu...

[ one of their sword obsessives. obviously mizu can fight. ]

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