SWANS ✬

[reconnective]

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w3, friday

[reconnective]

[he'll seek everyone out individually on friday after the investigation, telling them to head to hua cheng's room for an important reason. he won't specify the reason, of course. it's not safe to.

but as everyone files in one by one they'll find sora pacing the room nervous and clutching a lion kigu in his hands? this is his emotional support kigu now. as the last person shuts the door...

...he wastes no time, really.]

Sumire was on Swan's team. Also, all of you are on Swan's team, too.

[hi.]

[supremity]

[ Hua Cheng whistles, just once, a short and sharp noise to get everyone's attention.

He's already typed it out on his PHS, so holds it for everyone to read at their discretion. ]

for any of you that are hesitating about execution: we can't.

bending rules is one thing, but when we break them, it is literally affecting the structural integrity of the realm. it is affecting the leaders. swan is better off than others, because we've done well at not running our mouths or breaking rules - and we need to keep it that way. if we don't, there's a whole fucking slew of things waiting to kill us besides each other. if the stability continues to fail, we risk losing everything and becoming husks. if it completely falls apart, it comes down around our heads - this place wasn't meant to host us. and all else fails, we have a monster out there waiting, siphoning off nova.

if you have information, now's the time to share it. if you want to ask questions, now's the time to do it. but sumire is dead. [ He is - stormy, angry. That was a girl that didn't deserve what happened to her, who spent the last time Hua Cheng saw her concerned about others more than herself. ] and because she and shiro were killed, that's it. it's in the rules: if someone is killed, we have to find someone and claim they're guilty. i don't know about you, but i'd rather find the guilty party than sentence someone innocent to death again.

if it's a small comfort to you, they're in a limbo space - compare it to a shadow that's being cast by the realm. they're removed from the realm during execution, and this is where they go. there's a chance we can restore them, maybe once we've stabilized the realm, but we cannot let them just go unpunished for killing innocent people simply because they've been told that their nova is "splintered." we cannot fuck up again and repeat the mistake we did with kano.

you heard shima last week.

what you decide is your choice, but really think about that choice before you act on it.

WEEK 4 - SUNDAY

[uhhhmagic]

[hey.]

So. Which one of you did it?