[not again] catchall for escha

[fishingforcompliments]

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[fishingforcompliments]

It would be nice if we could.

[But somehow, Flayn doesn't think that's going to happen. Round 2 of Murder is hardmode, apparently.]

...who do you think did it?

[Flayn knows Escha was a suspect - but, really, she just can't see it. Maybe personality isn't something to go by, but if there is no possession, compulsion, or coercion here, what other choice does she have but to make decisions based on her instincts?]

[applechemist]

... I don't know.

Asch said that Yu described Guy as "a murderer who killed two people." That... Makes him very suspicious, but there wasn't any real evidence that led to him. But no one the evidence led to seemed suspicious to me at all, so...

[ So even that is hard to draw much from. ]

Do you have any guesses?

[fishingforcompliments]

From the evidence, I... I would have believed that it was Ogata. But...

[As they all know now, that wasn't it.]

I heard something similar about Guy. But... having shared a cabin with him for these past few weeks, I cannot say that he strikes me as a murderer. [...] Perhaps he would not have been except for what happened in the temple.

[applechemist]

Right. The temple had it's own particular set of rules... [ From what she has overheard, anyway. ] I want to like him, too.

[fishingforcompliments]

I want to like most of the people here.

[figuring out missed culprits is hard.]

[applechemist]

Me too. There's no one here that I hate or even really dislike. Not enough to hurt, and not enough to accuse of anything.

I wouldn't want anyone to go through being suspected if they don't have to.

[fishingforcompliments]

...

[oof. yeah, that sounds pretty awful. escha would know. flayn's expression falls, and she looks down.]

...I do not think that you were the killer, Escha. So, I... I hope that the others discard their suspicions of you, and soon.

[applechemist]

Thank you, Flayn. I appreciate it.

I know that you don't have much reason to believe in me, and I know we don't know each other that well, yet. So it means a lot to me.

[fishingforcompliments]

I do not need to know you well to know that you would never wish to hurt someone the way Yu was hurt... or to allow someone else to take the blame for it.

[she sighs]

That much is obvious simply by speaking with you once.

[applechemist]

Not everyone is going to believe that so easily.

[fishingforcompliments]

Well, perhaps they ought to.

[applechemist]

I can't blame them if they don't.

[fishingforcompliments]

[flayn can and will]

You did not kill anyone, so they will have to accept it.

[applechemist]

But how can they believe me when that's where the evidence leads? I - it's all we have to go on.

[fishingforcompliments]

Because it is the truth. [she shakes her head] And even at the trial, people were saying that it did not make sense.

[applechemist]

Aren't you afraid of being wrong?

[fishingforcompliments]

I am very afraid of that. But... I am equally certain that it was not you.