Week Zero, Friday, post-investigation.

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[After the investigation was concluded, Chuuya had had a drink or five. And then he'd retired to their room armed with paper and pen.

The four sheets of paper are currently blank.]

...I don't know enough about them to write poems for them properly.

[He's saying it more to himself than Logix, but he's not kicking Logix out or anything.]

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[Thanks for not kicking him out, roommate. His hands are pretty bloody from the dick box.]

... Sorry, I didn't get to speak to any of them before...

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[maybe wash up sometime, logy]

I had maybe one conversation with each of them. Not enough to really know them and pay tribute properly. If I tried to write anything on this much it'd be insulting.

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[He's heading to the bathroom? That's clearly where he's going right now the sink is running, he's washing off the gross dick blood.]

Do you usually write poetry for the deceased?

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Yeah. Lots of it if they're somebody close.

[These four weren't, but Chuuya isn't far enough from the situation that he can justify not writing something.]

It feels like the last thing you can do for somebody.

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[He takes a seat nearby so they can talk more easily.]

If we can figure out who killed them, that might help too.

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Well yeah, but I'm a poet, not a detective. I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to murder.

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I'm an alchemist and I can't synthesize anything here.

Trying to solve what happened is the most I can do for them now.

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...guess we gotta just try, since there aren't real detectives to do it for us.

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Nightwing said he was a detective, but that's just one.

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Better hope he never kills anybody.

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It feels like we're doing a lot of hoping.

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If you've got a better suggestion, I'm listening.

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I don't and it's aggravating. I want to do more than I am right now.

[goatsongs]

Maybe you should write something?

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I'm not much of a writer, but there's no harm in trying.

[goatsongs]

's better than sitting around doing nothing.

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... You're not wrong.

[Time to start writing. It's nothing like poetry, it seems like a report.]

[goatsongs]

[Not everyone is talented enough for poetry, it's fine.]

...Have you ever been around for people getting killed before?

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No. This is my first time dealing with murders.

[goatsongs]

Mine too. I've seen people die, but that was from sickness.

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Some places at home are experiencing droughts and food shortages, but it's part of my job to make sure they have rations to survive until they can relocate.

[He sighs.]

I don't mind new experiences, but this is one I would've preferred to avoid.

[goatsongs]

Same. I wasn't exactly feeling a murder-shaped hole in my afterlife.

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... Your afterlife? You've died before?

[goatsongs]

Sure have. Wasn't murdered, so I've got that going for me.

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... If you died before, how are you here?

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Transmigrated spirit. I've been around like this for a couple years now - the body's just ink and magic shaped like a person.

[or at least he'll assume that until he learns Polly's deal]

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[Give him a moment to process all of that.]

I don't think we have anything like that where I'm from. Was it... strange to be alive again?

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...Yeah, but not that much more than it is weird to be alive at all. You know?

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I've never been resurrected before, so I'm not sure about that.

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It's not for everybody. I'd skip it.

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Don't worry, I'm not planning on it.

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People whose life goal's to come back to the dead are weirdos.

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[...]

Do you know people like that?

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Not personally. You hear about cults and shit on the news, though.

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I'm glad you didn't have to deal with those directly.

[goatsongs]

My life's pretty boring, at least up until I died.

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And then... it got more interesting?

[what.]

[goatsongs]

Sure did.

[no he's not going to explain]