SECOND INVESTIGATION

[whimsicalism]

INVESTIGATION

After last Friday's horrific discovery, the march toward the weekend must be filled with dread for some of Ira Academy's students. This week, the Principal's tailored threats became even more personal. Tuesday's motive announcement received a more noticeable reception across several members of the student body. In most cases, this would be a blessing: Good children care about protecting their loved ones.

Now, however, it's a threat. Someone with loved ones to protect might have felt there was nothing left to lose--except, perhaps, another classmate. Despite the lack of a real sun (or, truly, any genuine weather outside at all) the morning is a gloomy, cursed one. For anyone feeling concerned about what might be waiting out there, it might be a little hard to emerge from the warm safety of bed. Others may have felt the oppressive fear on the other end of things, unable to fall into a true sleep and still wide awake come morning.

Will this Friday see a repeat of last week, gruesome and bloody early in the morning? Or has everyone chosen to wait out the danger, refusing to give in to their fears? There's only one way to find out.

Where will your weary morning legs take you today, children?

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Comments

[temmapathy]

[Okay, well, she was not expecting that. How tall is the outline? And is it an outline of their full body, or just part of it?]

[whimsicalism]

[It's about three feet tall and for what sort of outline it is... it's very weird looking. It's more like a shadow; the proportions are off somehow, there's a lot of empty space, and only the head is distinct.]

[temmapathy]

[Really weird. Does the head look like Thomasin's, or someone else's?]

[whimsicalism]

[You can't really tell.]

[temmapathy]

[Alright. Does the outline spread to the floor in any way, or is it just on the wall?]

[whimsicalism]

[Just on the wall.]

[temmapathy]

[She leans in closer to examine the texture of the paint. Does it look like it was painted directly like that, or splattered, or even poured? Also, how dry is it?]

[whimsicalism]

[It's faint enough that it's hard to tell how it got there. It's pretty dry though with the small amount of paint actually on the wall.

[temmapathy]

[Okay. Is there anything else notable about this outline?]

[whimsicalism]

[Not really, no.]

[temmapathy]

[Alright, she'll get a bag to put a paint chip sample in, plus some tracing paper to trace the most visible parts of the outline.]