The Wii hummed a tune, counted down and back from forty-two, and generally pretended to be busy. The PS3 booted up in its absence. "Christmas is a holiday celebrated in many universes on the twenty-fifth of December. While many Santas behave differently, they tend to deliver their presents on the eve of said date. Many different cultures developed customs surrounding the day, even extending the holiday to the surrounding week or even month. Today is Wednesday the thirty-fifth. Tomorrow will be Monday the fourth."Darkwhite growled, but then turned her attention to the machine. That thing seemed to know everything. "Hey, you! Wii thing! What day is it, and how far are we from Christmas?"
"Are we friends?" asked Jesse, genuinely surprised. "Sure don't have the impression you like me much, Darkwhite. But listen, this is a chance for you to get Palkia on side. If the three of us are all Nice, surely we can gain each other's trust and vote as a bloc against more suspicious types. And while you sure ain't actin' like a truly benevolent sort, I ain't yet convinced you're our murderer either."And fight back she did. Darkwhite was ready for it. But not before she looked at Jesse with a betrayed look in her eyes. "You don't even care if I'm gone? I thought we were friends! We're both good guys right? You have a power that asks about the game and stuff! I have a power that--I mean, I might have one of those nine powers!" She seethed, but then looked to Palkia. She clearly didn't get the same signal that it was a facade, and she was grabbing for the remote.
He agreed with the science project; the claim was, indeed, suspicious. But who everyone voted for could also be making statements about themselves. And abstaining all together... That was another surefire way to give the murderers a chance to kill another innocent.She narrowed her eyes at the Mew-like creature. "My ability isn't weird like the ones she listed either. So the ones she claims she has don't fit with anyone else's. That's weird. She said she needed advice as a reason to tell us she had one of a bunch of strong abilities but then she didn't really act interested in the advice. She just said that to make us think she had a strong power, without having to prove any of it. She's lying."
"Palkia's right. Darkwhite is suspicious."
She narrowed her eyes at the Mew-like creature. "My ability isn't weird like the ones she listed either. So the ones she claims she has don't fit with anyone else's. That's weird. She said she needed advice as a reason to tell us she had one of a bunch of strong abilities but then she didn't really act interested in the advice. She just said that to make us think she had a strong power, without having to prove any of it. She's lying."
"And I never said anythin' 'bout what my power did 'cept to imply it ain't one that provides information. Jus' sayin'."
"Nah. I ain't used my power yet. I meant the same sorta thing as how we all remember wrappin' a present we didn't fuckin' wrap, and folks keep sayin' they have false memories of how this goddamn 'game' works. I got an intuition that there's a new present waitin' for me to unwrap tonight, is all."Wait, then what was that thing about magical intuition? I thought you just used your power today or something!
if you wanna offer up a better target, one that ain't already cleared by Lee, I'll vote with ya.
"Fascinating," Palkia answered distractedly, picking up a Wii remote. "Ready whenever you are~""Look at what you did!" She pointed at Palkia. "Not you guys are going to eliminate an innocent just like that! You want to know why I gave out all those powerful powers? Because what if maybe I DID have a powerful power and didn't want it to be known immediately, huh?" She pulled back.
"...Wait a second." Darkwhite hummed. "What was the thing that cleared me and Palkia of being the baddies? Fur?" She paused. "Oh, wait, Legends. I mean, I guess I count as Legendary. I am pretty awesome. But that doesn't really narrow our options much..."
Tabitha slunk out from under the couch, twitching his ears as he glared at the Delphox.Jesse scratched his head, at first in thought, and then in increasing frustration. He turned to Tabitha under the couch and snapped his fingers.
"I can't read your mind, son. But I can fuckin' tell you don't approve of votin' off the silent one fer bein' silent. Tell you what, if you wanna offer up a better target, one that ain't already cleared by Lee, I'll vote with ya. How about it?"
Right now, we're counting on Lee being trustworthy--and if he is, then it appears that Darkwhite and Palkia are innocent. But none of this is confirmed.
"Wait, then what was that thing about magical intuition? I thought you just used your power today or something!" Darkwhite looked at Mia, seething even more. "Look at what you did!" She pointed at Palkia. "Not you guys are going to eliminate an innocent just like that! You want to know why I gave out all those powerful powers? Because what if maybe I DID have a powerful power and didn't want it to be known immediately, huh?" She pulled back.
"I thought everyone had awesome powers if mine was so cool! You know, hypothetically!"
Mia fixed Darkwhite with a hard stare. "If you didn't want your powerful power to be known immediately, you could have just not said anything about it. Why did you really tell everyone?""And also," Darkwhite added hastily, "I kind of... didn't... know what my power did at first." She poked her little paws together. "I read the note, but then I got, like, an intuition that I could do more with it. And there were other things about it, too. At first my power was more basic, but then I, like, asked about stuff in my room, like, to the air. You know, thinking aloud. And I... realized that it could do more stuff. So my... power was sort of, I didn't know all of it until later, too. Which makes some things I just learned..." She glared intensely at the PS3. "...make my power less awesome than I thought... but it's still useful! I can still help!"
"Right now, we're counting on Lee being trustworthy--"
"If Lee's lying," Darkwhite said, "that seems like a pretty dumb way to expose the other two naughty people or whatever by just trying to triple claim or whatever."
Mia frowned in annoyance. "Why is everyone acting like Lee cleared anyone? I already explained probably Squirt doesn't even know who killed him. I didn't say Lee's lying. I said it doesn't mean anything."
"If you didn't want your powerful power to be known immediately, you could have just not said anything about it. Why did you really tell everyone?"