seaclipsed | week 1, friday

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week 1, friday

[ sometime after newt basically forcefully carries katara back to her dang hut, she will go back outside. she doesn't really want to stay in there all day. it feels a little suffocating every the show they just had to go through.

she settles onto one of the chairs near the bonfire. she's staring to intently at it that she won't hear someone approaching, even as she complains to herself. ]

I can't believe we have to just sit here until tomorrow...

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[Same, though, Katara. Same. Even if she's not actually talking to him, he still finds himself responding to that complaint with one of his own.]

They're making us waste time. We could be looking for whoever killed her right now.

[And then... what? More death? They'll be forced to sit through the trial tomorrow, anyway.]

Were they the ones who did that to her body? Or... was that Hal?

[ she'd immediately assumed it was the killer at first, but hal's reaction to it made her second guess that. ]

Either way, every second we waste just gives the killer more time to think of ways to create an alibi.

[A shake of his head. His guess is as good as hers, honestly.]

We don't know what they — whoever they are, used to do that to her body. [Everyone was too busy losing their chill to talk about the knife, presumably. Not that the knife would have dismembered her, anyway.] And if there was anything useful on the killer it's going to be long gone by tomorrow. We won't have enough evidence to work with.

Are we supposed to just... guilt people into confessing or what?

[ she's not sure how that's supposed to work. there are definitely people here who seem like they're impossible to back into a corner like that. ]

We don't even know how the trial is going to be set up.

I get the feeling whoever killed Haru isn't capable of feeling guilt.

[It's easy enough to kill a person why simply stabbing them in the right spot. There's no need to cause any additional damage, and yet — they all stumbled across a dismembered corpse. That's unforgivable.]

The rules won't help, and the chief's won't say anything about it. Our only option is to wait and see.

[And ain't that messed up.]

I hate that that's what most of our options are! Wait and see. We won't know how to plan for something until it happens, but that's just so...

[ she groans, turning around. ]

Frustrating, I know. We're stuck reacting instead of taking action. There has to be a way to change that.

[But someone is dead, just like they said. What else is going to go according to their plans?]