trial 4 afterPARTY

[keyringwitness]

After the chaos of the trial and its aftermath, their tradition of the morbid "afterparty" almost seemed insulting... to everyone else, at least. Yasu is more than happy to provide.

The rest of the class might be drawn toward the cafeteria by the alluring scent of well-steeped black tea and baked goods. Inside, Yasu sips from her own cup, looking totaly composed by the tray of scones—sorry, everyone, cookies are a Kakuya-only privilege—and the teapot.

There are plates set out, too. Much more sophisticated than the mopey crackers, apples, and cheese everyone is used to.

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[hashtagwoof]

Trust me, I've been there plenty of times before. [ His tone softens. ] And I'm one of those alleged smart guys.

[ He's just gonna chill in here, he guesses. May as well spill his guts now that all the worst parts had been spilled into the open. ]

I mean... You remember what I said about doing shady things for my great aunt, right? Part of that was getting the dogs to trust me enough so they'd let me in their house to... You know. [ Shrug. He isn't gonna reiterate. ] I think that's why Dylan never fully trusted me, I already betrayed him once...

But you know what? I'm just gonna add that little incident to my ever growing pile of regrets.

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[He nods in response.]}

I guess I never had a lot of regrets until I was here. At most it was... keep secrets that I should have told, miscommunication, all that jazz. Now my regrets are comprised of "Should I have talked more with this person before they were gone?" "Should I ever have trusted this person in the first place?" "I was a-" _{[He stopped himself from stating the last one. He wasn't going to fish for "oh you weren't that much of an asshole" remarks and stroke his ego. Instead...]} "I should have acted better." But, dwelling won't fix anything.

[hashtagwoof]

[ ... Huge sigh here. Dewey sure was lucky, wasn't he?

But that last thing... ]

Yeah, it won't. That's why I'm trying to make up for everything I've done. If it means helping everyone regroup to face the evil fox doll, then so be it.

[lets_dewey_it]

...Yeah. I get you. In that case, let's do our best.