fear makes you stupid; ota

[thesamurai]

Who: Michonne + You
Where: Around the mansion
When: First half of September
Rating: PG-13 for language maybe.
Summary: None of this is sitting well with Michonne.
The Story:

[ For a little while now, Michonne's katana has been sitting on a shelf in the room she shares with Regina. They haven't had an event in a while now that tried to kill them, and so there it sat. Maybe the events have been murderless because now they're going to start killing each other.

She doesn't know what to believe, but she knows the katana has to come out of its short retirement and she can't sit quietly, so now before she leaves it gets put in its place on her back, comfortable hanging against her upper hip. She resumes her quiet patrols of the grounds and inside, going up to the roof first and surveying the land from all sides before making her way down, floor by floor, walking until the rooms go unoccupied before finding the stairs and going to the next. She moves unhurried, taking in what there is to take in, making note of who's where. She circles through tea rooms and both gyms, then sits in the foyer of the mansion quietly, earbuds in, device in hand, not really listening to anything but rather waiting to see what people talk about when they think no one can hear them.

Then, Michonne makes her way outside, patrolling around the woods, the lake, the beach and in the end, making her way through the gardens before finding herself standing on the front steps looking out.

She does this every day. Will it make a difference? Who knows. Maybe she sees or hears something and maybe she doesn't. But at least she's not sitting still. ]

((ooc: find michonne anywhere in the mansion and it should be fine! lmk on plurk at propernice if you'd like a specific starter!))

Comments

[normandysbest]

[Shepard shakes her head.]

I doubt it's a rogue mirror. I know we aren't dealing with Hearts anymore, but I bet White would've said something by now. I can see the circumstances where that could exist, but it's far more probable it's one of us.

[Which is, y'know, kinda worse.]

Chances are someone's a nutjob back home and did a good job of hiding it. Probably seems like profiling, but did we check the new arrivals around that time? And she didn't... see who did it?

[thesamurai]

[ Michonne happens to agree. She isn't sold on it being a mirror, but if it's gonna be a persistent theory, might as well consider it for a minute. ]

She was hit from behind. Neck snapped. That's all I know after talkin' to Liv. I haven't checked the new arrivals though. Singling people out didn't wholly seem like the right move. Not sure what is.

[ If this were home, if there were laws, she'd know exactly what to do. But this is different. ]

[normandysbest]

[She nods, hand on her jaw while she thinks about this. That sucks. That really sucks.]

No, I get that. It's not very welcoming to have someone fleece you as soon as you arrive in some unknown world. But that has to be someone experienced. Someone who's killed before. But without knowing everyone, that could be anyone.

[Shepard sighs, running a hand through her hair.]

Certainly not what we need right now, when everything was just starting to quiet down.

[thesamurai]

Breaking someone's neck is personal. Violent and hands on. It's what I learned in law school, anyway. Maybe the same rules don't apply, but it sounds like a person who might just like killin' people.

[ Which is probably the most disturbing part of this. ]

[normandysbest]

[Shepard can't help but grind her teeth at the thought. She's right. It's just... bad all around.]

It's certainly someone who wasn't afraid of what they were doing, and not an accident. This wasn't somebody getting into somebody else's gun.

[She sighs.]

Can't even test a fucking murder weapon. It sucks.

[thesamurai]

We figure out who it is, then we owe it to everyone else to let that information out. People either want their own revenge or they know if some other shit happens outside of an event, that person is suspect number one. Wouldn't wanna roam the halls after that, bein' a known murderer and all.

[ She pauses for a beat. ]

Sounds like isolation's the only way you know for sure someone doesn't beat the shit out of you. Or retaliate in some other way. For that alone, finding the son of a bitch needs to happen.

[normandysbest]

I agree, but only if we know with certainty who it was. We can't start witch hunts in such a small space or we'll kill each other in minutes.

[She spent a long time investigating Phillip for this exact reason, even if she was right. And still, she's barely said his name. But since they're likely to be dealing with this person for a bit, it might be necessary.]

From there we can move on to figuring out something to do. But until we get our facts straight, we can't plan revenge.

[thesamurai]

[ Michonne agrees. She hates that there's no better way to figure it all out, but she agrees. ]

Now seems about the right time to do whatever you need to make sure the guard you set up's on high alert.

[normandysbest]

I think we're all looking, but I'll make sure everyone's updated. You get any clues, I can disseminate that quickly and quietly. Get some trained experts, people who have already volunteered to fight to keep their eyes open.

[She can't imagine anyone who isn't keeping an eye on things, but apparently one eye wasn't enough, in this situation.]

Happy to help however I can.

[thesamurai]

[ Clapping Shepard once on the shoulder, Michonne nods. ]

Thank you. It's obvious, what I'm doin'; you'd probably stand out too. So I have a few others, lowkey trained to observe, can hold their own, randomly walking the place at random times. Can't hurt.

[normandysbest]

[She nods back, knowing.]

I got it. I'll make some rounds. Even if I'm not super armed, I'm pretty confident I could take anyone here in hand-to-hand. Especially if they try the same move.

[Seeing as half her neck is metal, they'd be in for a surprise when they hit the spine.]

Good luck.