(animal noises) ............... 3!

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shitpost to come once you know who our new buddy is......

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[she smiles!]

All five of us, yes.

[jiuqing pulls the door shut behind them once they're in.]

I believe this accounts for every animal that's been spotted, now.

[georeject]

[they blink.]

Oh, does that make you the other cat I met, Nogiku?

[ktiseos]

For that matter, just who is it that you work with? I'd more or less expected our number to remain at four.

[local man definitely just kept thinking someone was impersonating one of them...]

[pura]

I work with Riff-san. If it's the same for one of you, I expect it to be Jiuqing.

[ktiseos]

...how strange. Do you two perform the same duty, then?

[pura]

I'm responsible for some of the special deliveries, but not others, so I think that's the case.

What about the rest of you? I know nothing about your tasks.

[ktiseos]

The dreams are mine-- the ones with the rose tattoos. I work with Bass to send them.

[a slight pause.]

The pig ones are not mine, nor do I expect he has two individuals working with him as well, seeing as they manifest differently. I've yet to have the chance to speak with him of it, but I suspect they may have something to do with him regardless.

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[she nods]

That's right.

[georeject]

How did the two of you find each other, anyway?

[countermeasures]

I think she was planning to make me her confidant about what she was doing...? But when she began the conversation, it became rather obvious that she was the other cat, so I asked if she was the one who sent me the fingerprinting kit and we went from there.

[pura]

[Ah. She looks embarrassed, just a little.]

You're the panda?

[georeject]

Yes, that's me. I'm sorry, I really wasn't sure what you were trying to tell me...

[pura]

No, it's alright. I didn't realize you were probably just trying to say "hi" until our time ran out, so...

[georeject]

... Ah, I probably could've been clearer on that. Unfortunately, it's not very easy to spell things out with paws...

[aitou]

Oh, Nogiku. [He waves a little, leaning against the desk.] Eh--wait, the... other cat? Or the shark?

[OR THE POLAR BEAR? I don't know if he knows about the polar bear,]

[pura]

Cat, actually. I think the shark that was spotted the other week belongs to the Prism.

[aitou]

Oh, I see. [Huh.] What is it you do?

[pura]

I pick an icon, and three people to potentially receive whatever the hell that icon meant.

I was the one who gave Jiuqing her fingerprinting kit... and Kiyomitsu-san his luminol, I think.

[aitou]

Oh, so that's where it came from. I was wondering, when Su-sensei said it wasn't from her.

[BUT THEN WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PIG TATTOOS.

She's asking elsewhere but he will answer here for the sake of sticking in one part of the thread.]

I wake up and go scouting at night, when everyone else is put to sleep. Usually, I just find things... pieces of evidence, or I see or hear something that I can report to the others. [...] I've never been able to intervene before, but this last time... I guess I made it in time.

[which probably

explains

a few things

about trial.]

[pura]

Right. So... What have you all been doing so far?

[georeject]

My position allows me to cure the refracted, though it requires some guessing on my part and doesn't necessarily activate fast enough to stop them from killing.

[pura]

[... She pauses, thinking.]

Have you been successful before?

[georeject]

I think it worked successfully on Percival and Hot Pants...? There aren't any signs of someone refracting before Thursday, so... I've really only pinpointed them after the first kill, with everyone's help.

[countermeasures]

I'm fairly sure it did. Percy has been just fine since you chose him, and Hot Pants was able to confess something to me after you chose her that she wasn't able to say when I asked her directly, before.

[pura]

[...

closes her eyes.]

So she was refracting... Thank you for taking care of her, and Percival-san.