week 5, friday

[ninjay]

[ jay is, for obvious reasons, laying low mostly after the investigation. one of the few times he slips out of 112 he just happens to run into a familiar face.

he just scowls at andersen. ]

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[ninjay]

I don't know. The word "choice" seems to be coming up a lot, so that would be my best guess.

[ or his apparently crush or whatever the hell that is he has on girge, but. jay does not voice that one out loud. ]

[ninjay]

It's not your only one.

[ he tilts his head. ]

I really don't know you well enough to start guessing at what your main reason was though.

[ninjay]

You are aware of how ridiculous that sounds, right?

[ andersen. andersen, pls, look at what happened the last time he had a deal with you. ]

[ninjay]

This isn't getting any less suspicious.

[ it's even more suspicious. ]

I don't see the "deal" part yet.

[ninjay]

You can always wait until tomorrow to attempt to kill me, you know.

[ oh well. he doesn't care. ]

Fine.

[ninjay]

[ UGH I GUESS

WE'RE GOING TO THE LOUNGE jay hopes it's poison ]

[ninjay]

Green, maybe.

... I don't drink a lot of it.

[ninjay]

... It's fine, I guess.

[ninjay]

[ he presses his lips into a thin line. ]

There was no reason for it anymore.

[ninjay]

[ jay... actually looks a little sick at the line of questioning. ]

There was just no longer a need for it.

[ninjay]

Blue cup.

[ he doesn't comment on anything else, and he doesn't seem outwardly thankful that andersen stopped prodding. ]

[ninjay]

There's a lot of ways you can answer that. Some people are against killing, no matter what the circumstance is. But then others might make an exception for someone who's especially evil and may, in their opinion, deserve it.

[ he does think there are people who deserve it. ]

But... I don't think that this place, Yuggoth, is where anyone's end should be. A few people I've spoken to have claimed that maybe just letting the dead stay dead here would be better than taking the deal. That would be a fate worse than death though. It's bad enough that one person already has to stay here, but everyone else? [ he shakes his head. ] No.

I know taking away that choice from people was a terrible thing to do. We know that. And I'm sure there are people who might be willing to stay behind to let the others go home. Maybe we should have trusted the others more, but... if I'm honest, it's not like you all gave me many reasons to trust you in the first place.