castle_whims | FOURTH INVESTIGATION

INVESTIGATION

Good morning!

...Except it really isn't a good morning for the students at Ira Academy, after all. The deadline prescribed in this week's motive came just as quickly as the one's before it. It might be difficult to repel the sinking sense of dread that bleeds into Friday's early hours. That secret written on a slip of paper might even feel heavier for some. Perhaps it's Father's hate-filled words instead: I’m getting a little antsy about your performance. Do something to spice things up, won’t you? By now, is a grisly discovery every Friday morning a guarantee?

Though you're surely awake at the same time as usual--if you slept at all--there's a certain gloomier, late-year feeling to the artificial light keeping the Academy illuminated and providing the illusion of a complete world outside. There are no real seasons to speak of in this part of Closetland; one step into the playground proves that easily enough. And yet, as you emerge from your rooms, free to go wherever you wish today, it's hard to deny it. You've been enrolled here for quite a while, and time has passed.

Will autumn come and go before you get out of here?

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What do you mean?

[Anya asks. It's not in an aggressive tone or accusatory - she's just confused.]

Father is the one who made the Alternate Capstone Project and making this happen, isn't he? So he is in charge. Isn't that right?

But he wasn't the one who wanted to do all of this with the murders and trials. Someone on his "staff" is having him do it this way... He didn't make our profiles, and he didn't put Lady Nana in the washer for punishment either - didn't even know it was going on! To me, that's really weird.

Could it be one of those weird kids we saw in the heartscape?

Maybe... we just don't know enough about anyone.

[That's why he wants information!!]

...That is weird.

Have we seen anyone on 'staff' apart from Miss Prefeck, Father, and the sheepies?

[...DING]

MAYBE IT IS A WOLF IN SHEEPY CLOTHING!

A BAASTERMIND!?

Yes!

...

That means we have to really suspect sheepies now, though...there's a lot of those...maybe a really unique one.....

[This conversation distracts Adorabat from being angry.]

Wasn't there that one sheep during the first week...?

[!!!]

Shock!

You're right! There was one that stood out...!!!

But how do we find it?

How do we trap a sheepy....

[good question...]

Oh! I've go a bear trap!

Those are violent, but...

[an uneasy smile]

we may not have a choice.

[h o o b o y]

[A creepy smile.]

Agreed, Anya. The sheep will go squish, and soon, the prissipull will, too...

Oh! Maybe my monster bait can help then!

[He almost forgot he was making that!]

Yeah! I was planning on using it against the prissipull, but the sheep can be chompy chomped by it. Gimmie some jelly!

[Adorabat flaps her wing toward Fret. Jelly!]