THIRD TRIAL

[despairection]

[Ashley Blair, the SHSL Witch-in-Training, is dead. She's had her life snuffed out, but how and why? It's a murder both mysterious and menacing.

Portraits of Betrayus and Ashley, depicted in monochrome coloring, stand at their podiums. But more importantly, the courtroom this time is an exact and functional replica of the Eggman Factory. If only for the evidence they'll never be able to move...

Will they be able to use this evidence to find the truth? Or will the culprit's confusing conundrum get the best of them?

10 students remain.]



[Let the class trial in the murder of Ashley Blair...begin.]

 

Comments

Previous should've been plural, oops.

[superstylishschism]

Teamwork, actually.

But the point is, we forgave them. We were the ones it tried to kill, but we didn't hate them for being angry, or even for taking their anger too far. We accepted that they had made mistakes and we reached out to them anyway.

Because that's what decent people do when faced with someone who lashed out because they were hurting. We don't hold it against them and give them more to resent, we try to help them heal.

[theothersissel]

[His mouth twists into a kind of...weirdly regretful expression.]

...

I didn't think that would happen. I just assumed...I just assumed you'd think I'm a monster.

[superstylishschism]

Real monsters don't care if people hate them, they don't even understand why people care who else they hurt.

[He shakes his head.]

You're not a monster, you're just an idiot.

[theothersissel]

[He shrugs, as if he doesn't have a single care in the world.]

Good to know.