is this darkness of the dawn and your friends are gone

[bogwife]

[Everything keeps happening so much and the only real constants are death and parties.

Zerinda takes the initiative to plan things this time, with Della helping her deliver the invitations either being slipped under doors again.]



[It gives everyone an hour or two to settle down from the investigation and trial. By 6 on the dot the tables in the lounge are packed with miscellaneous vending machine snacks, a large pot of a thick and warm white stew, a plate stacked with biscuits and cupcakes. So many cupcakes. Mira has been coping well with her stress.

There's also several bottles of wine, hot coffee and hot chocolate waiting for anyone thirsty.

Welcome to the party, ya'll.]

Comments

[mouflon]

...It might have been part of processing us, like we talked about before. We were put under hypnosis and trained to react in a certain way to a certain noise. So now, when we hear it, we have an automatic response even though we're not actively under hypnosis right now.

The only thing I don't agree with is the idea that those whispers are part of it. Our powers being sealed is part of the same process that "normalized" all our bodies, and you can't do that with hypnosis alone.

[bolderfell]

Then what was it? Had to have been something.

[mouflon]

Of course it was something. But Angel's rules say she can't lie, which means that unless the Professor was lying to her about how our abilities are suppressed, what she told me about that was the truth.

[ ... ]

Unless it's some sort of combo machine, I guess.

[bolderfell]

Well, I'll see what I can find out tonight. If plugging my ears doesn't solve anything, it's one more idea we can rule out.