dendroculi | [homophonic] catchall for livio

[ nodding, in response ]

Ya just let me know if there's anything I can do for ya. I got healed, if you wanna investigate.

[ he can give her another piggyback ]

Likewise, if there's anything I can help you with...

[she takes a sad bite of her pastry.]

'm okay. [ he wasn't as close to shenhe as she was. mainly, he has been worrying over castmates and friends ] Just... trying to figure out how I can help.

...tomorrow may be more challenging than the last few weeks. We have more ground to cover, two cases to solve, and little idea as of yet about how the evidence may overlap.

[...]

I think... the most helpful thing any of us can do at this point is to prepare ourselves for what's to come. We won't have time to waste tomorrow.

Right. We're gonna have to stay sharp and focused. You're right. [ this is the first time they've had two culprits so livio is wondering if they'll be allowed to vote for two teams.... ]

What about you, Nahida? Anything I can do for ya?

...

[she shakes her head.]

Nothing that I can think of. But, I'll let you know if that changes. Is there anything I can do for you, Livio?

Don't think so. I did get one of those messages, but it's..... [ woof ] pretty alarming, like the last one. So I wasn't sure if now's the best time to show you or not.

...I don't mind taking a look.

[maybe it will be better if she has something else to focus on.]

[ he will show her on his sad, cracked phone ]

it looks like they're really going for world erasure. they're really stubborn that way, aren't they? at least the winner can use their points to also bring others back to the realground, but i'm afraid i don't really think they'd be able to save too many unless they really work for it with how much it costs. what a shame, isn't it? i hope this group won't be anti-violence.

[she reads over it, then sighs.]

...it's the same as the one Shu received. So it's consistent, at least. Still...

[BAD VIBES.]

Yeah, I'd bet that every person that went on these trips each week got the exact same message.

[ he figured shu would have shown her, but still. she showed him hers ]

I'm wonderin' if this is the reason we have two bodies. [ not this message specifically, but the idea behind it, that they have to shed blood for points to save everyone ]

...you mean, someone who knew about the stakes before your group received this message?

[...hm. that makes her frown a little.]

I did hear that D and Libby might have been forced to do it. [ he has no confirmation, really, but... this does make him wonder ]

Dunno for sure, of course. I'm plannin' on asking the Reapers soon as I can get a hold of them. But it was just a thought I had, especially after last week's message.

[ worlds being erased...... ]

...but there weren't that many people who knew about last week's message, were there? Everyone I spoke with who knew about it mentioned that they weren't planning to spread it very far, because they were worried about exactly this sort of thing happening.

[ nodding!! ]

Yeah, but it's hard to say how far it spread. Or... I dunno.... who forced Libby and D to kill? Maybe it's the person sending these messages....

...it's possible. We don't really know enough about the identity of whoever is sending the messages and whoever was responsible for pushing the two of them to act to say for sure.

Yeah, it's.... well, I'm just thinkin' out loud. But it wouldn't be a surprise ta me if there were more than one killer, because of something like this. This behind the scenes shit.