heartablaze | REDACTABLE

[It feels wrong to step back into the planetarium, knowing the evidence that sits on the doorframe, on the knob, on the floor - pieces of a puzzle that they almost didn't figure out. She drifts inside in a bit of a daze, glancing up at the millions of tiny little lights above them on the ceiling, before closing here eyes and wishing, as hard as she could, for someone to answer her.

...

Of course, it doesn't come. Her face falls at the silence, hands drawing up to her chest as she wearily takes a look around--

Oh. Well. Yipes. Giant shadow in the corner means there's an active yelp, before she slaps her hand over her mouth.]

C-Chiron-san? I, uhh... y-you...

Have you been there the whole time????

[Normally Hikaru is at breakfast bright and early - to get something in her stomach always seemed to perk her up right away and keep her energy rolling until she eventually needed some sort of snack. She knows how it feels by now - how sad she would feel just cause she was hungry, and how tired she'd become.

But yesterday, she'd been sluggish, like perhaps she'd had a bad night of sleep. Today, she looks like she's practically nodding off at the table, the breakfast in front of her untouched as she stirs the spoon with heavy eyes.

That's normal!

It is absolutely impossible to miss a horse walking through the dining hall, so she'll at least give a respectful nod to him as he passes.]

Good morning, Chiron-sensei.

[thank god the elevator exists... Hikaru's somehow looking even worse than Thursday morning, curled up on one of the lobby couches with a plushie in her arms, eyes red, drifting between being asleep and starting awake whenever she hears someone walking close enough.

Thankfully: horse.

Hikaru rouses for a moment, blinking up in Chiron's direction whenever he comes into the inn.]

...Sensei?

[wait. waaaait a minute he was hurt and ran off??? WAIT A MINUTE.

She... thankfully, stays on the couch, but she shoots up to a sitting position and raises her voice.]

A-ah-- C-Chiron-sensei, hey...!

[At the bottom floor of the inn, Chiron is... busy trying to get his hair dry, frankly, though he has a very flat look about him, as if his calm is only barely held together by years of practice instead of natural effort.

Two more dead... and who knows if a body was missed. There will be plenty of theorizing to do tonight.]

[Zooms in here. Where is horse dad? we'll see at the bottom level of the inn, resting, though his sightless eyes will open upon hearing the familiar cadence of Hikaru's footsteps.]

Did you wish to see me?

[you know what she is still very good at

climbing trees

So she has hoisted herself up a tree to try and get a better look of the forest. How do you even lose a two ton blind horse sensei with a huge bow he should be walking into several trees in hikaru's very expert opinion.]

WEEK ZERO - SATURDAY - POST-TRIAL

WEEK ONE - THURSDAY MORNING

WEEK ONE - FRIDAY, POST INVESTIGATION

W2 || Friday

W3 || Friday

WEEK THREE - SATURDAY - POST TRIAL