PCs with Sora

[lionson]

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week 1, post-trial

[lionson]

[Shiro has gathered up some food into a bowl in hopes of giving an offering at the Planetarium, but he'll get distracted when he sees Sora there.]

I'm not interrupting anything, am I?

[reconnective]

[sora's sitting in the middle of the room on the floor, but he turns when shiro enters.]

Oh, hey. It's fine, I was just...thinking, I guess.

[lionson]

[He'll set the bowl down on the table and then go towards the middle of the room too.]

Yeah? About what?

[reconnective]

Mostly everything that just happened. It's a lot to take in, don't you think?

[lionson]

Yeah, it is.

[He'll go ahead and sit down now.]

What're your thoughts on it all? Talking through it might help.

[reconnective]

[give him a second to organize his thoughts.]

Voting for Kano was a huge mistake. It should have been obvious that he wasn't guilty, and we shouldn't have let him distract us as much as we did.

[lionson]

It was. That's why I said what I did. But in the end, we didn't decide on someone to vote for, so everyone voted for different people. It's possible just 2 or 3 people spite-voted him thinking it wouldn't matter, but then it did.

[reconnective]

That's the thing about voting though. Even if it's only a one-vote difference that could change everything. And we're supposed to be working together, how is spite-voting going to get us anywhere?

[lionson]

It won't get us anywhere, but that's the tricky part of working with people. People don't always think logically. Most people are very self-centered and act according to their own interests. It's often easier to appeal to those interests than it is to convince people to be altruistic.

Week 2, Monday

[lionson]

[Emotion sharing is the perfect time to track a kid down and ask him difficult questions!]

Oi, Sora. I gotta ask you something.

[He's not mad or anything, but he's definitely a man on a mission. He's trying to figure something out.]

[reconnective]

[oh gosh, okay! he doesn't seem to be bothered with being approached and instead he gives shiro a grin.]

What's up?

[lionson]

"Bear den, 10 o'clock, low."

Does that make sense to you?

[reconnective]

[he looks temporarily exhausted.]

Is that from Kano.

[lionson]

[Only temporarily? Shiro has been exhausted for three days now.]

Yeah, it was. What does it even mean?

[reconnective]

[it's the dad energy.]

Knowing Kano, it's a navigation. Somewhere out by a bear den, at the ten o'clock position, there's something low to find.

[lionson]

[It absolutely is the dad energy. It makes him worry. Forever.]

That's not a bad idea. The only problem is, I haven't seen a bear den yet.

[reconnective]

It's out in the woods. [just. so casual.] Did Kano tell you to ask me specifically?

[this is all he can guess.]

w2 saturday

[reconnective]

[wherever shiro is, sora's going to approach him with equal parts sympathy and equal parts calm, hands in his pockets as he comes to a stop.]

...I wanted to see how you were doing after all of that back there. And thank you for cooperating with us.

[lionson]

[Shiro is around, let's say he's outside the planetarium right now. He's been walking outside to calm himself down.]

I gotta admit, I wasn't exactly cooperating. I suspected it was him, but I was trying to throw suspicion off of him.

[reconnective]

[planetarium it is.]

You were a little more cooperative than some of the others today, how about that? [sighs @ fighting.] I wasn't even entirely sure you guys knew each other until the end.

[lionson]

We know each other tangentially. I know his father, he knows my sons. But it's not like we ever talked much.

[reconnective]

But you still felt like you had to protect him. [it's not accusatory, it's just...questioning, perhaps.]

[lionson]

...yeah.

[He runs a hand through his hair.]

I know, I should've been honest. But I just couldn't do it.

[reconnective]

...I don't know how I would've reacted if I were in your shoes. Especially knowing there's at least one other killer out there who took care of Raven.

Do you believe him when he said he was helping?

[lionson]

...yeah, I do.

Because I think I know who killed Raven. And if I'm right, Shima made himself obvious to try and protect that person.