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End of the World: [Video, Midday, Day 12]

[There's a fully transformed Sailor Uranus on the video feed, everybody. Did you miss her? She missed you.... There's a backdrop of the ship wall behind her, and she appears to be walking briskly down a corridor. She is looking pretty unhappy about life. Or maybe just some of the people in it.]

Has anyone else died since I died? Where is Chime? Has been stopped?

[Since Chime is the only murderer she knows about, for sure, that's obviously the one she's asking about.]

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...Guess that confirms the ship's life support back-up still working.

[Exhaustion is pretty evident in Shepard's voice. She clears her throat, in an attempt to reply to Haruka's questions]

Headcount's gotten pretty unreliable. Is Chime responsible for what happened to you?

He killed me, the bastard. Back-killing bastard.

[She's still angry about that, obviously.]

Is he around? Alive? Captured?

I haven't seen him come or go, but I've been trying to maintain the perimeter.

Someone has to. I will see if I can find him. And capture him, or kill him.

[The bastard.]

Anything else happen? Aside from this annoying warning about evacuation.

The oasis surrounding the perimeter of the ship that we used to use for a "safe zone" is shrinking inwards. No idea what the hell is causing that.

Same thing that causes the rifts maybe?

[It's only a guess. If Mercury or Pluto were here, they'd have an answer for her, but they're not.]

More likely the thing that the ship is counting down for. It's still doing that....

Yeah. Something about this "timeline collapse." Things just keep getting better.

Well, shit.

[The swear is in Japanese, of course. She's picked up English ones since her arrival here, but she likes her own language better.]

I guess we had best figure out how to stop it, or how to get out of here. Or be ready for the end, whatever it is.

[The connection flicks on and off and on and off before coming on again. Someone is still quite the novice at using the communicator. When the Warden speaks at last, it is broadcast to anyone who is monitoring rather than going to Haruka alone - possibly yet another user error. Elissa has a dull throb in her voice and it sounds as if she has been weeping.]

If our beautiful doctor is not yet dead, he is close to it. Twas an attack by one of those fiendish bone creatures.

A-Also, Thor is gone. And... and some blue-skinned dragon man.

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Blue-skinned dragon-man. That's Chime.

[There's satisfaction and annoyance in Haruka's expression and tone. Satisfaction, that he's not killing anybody else; annoyance, that she can't ask him what the hell his problem is. And then kill him, herself.

Then again, he might wake up, the same way she did.]

He is the one who killed me.

[With a heavy heart, Elissa quietly begins her confession.]

I killed him - with my blades.
I threw Thor into the tentacles of a rift monster.

[The Warden's voice breaks on the mention of Thor's death.]

I poisoned Inara.
I poisoned the food and, thusly, the Oracle.

I await judgement in the cargo bay encampment with the rations I took for my own before the others were poisoned. You will find me near the doctor's shelter.

[sry Haruka Shepard can't ignore this when she's got the audio open]

Wait, what?

You're the one who's been doing all this?

[The voice on the other end draws a ragged breath before responding.]

Not... all of it.

[The pause after those words is expectant as if there might be more to follow, but there is not.]

[Haruka stops running to stare at the screen, and both the responses, before she speaks up again.]

Why? And why are you giving yourself up?

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[Confusion would radiate from the communicator, if that were possible, but there is more grief in her voice than anything else when the Warden replies.]

Giving myself up is the right thing to do. I...

[Her throat doesn't work for a moment.]

I am still puzzling over the answer to your other query.

[Haruka's surprise turns swiftly enough back into anger, this time directed at Elissa. She starts moving again.]

Better puzzle faster. I want an answer when I get there.

We're down by about half. Which hasn't stopped the ship from coughing up new people. Because tossing disoriented new kids into a disintegrating hole full of murderous psychopaths is always the best idea.

[She curses in Japanese briefly, but at this point it looks like her direction has changed.]

Yeah, I know, I ran into one of them waking up. A tall man named Kozumotis.

[Not quite right, but close enough.]

Are you near to the common site? Elissa is there. She says she killed Thor, Inara, and Chime.

I caught that. I'm on my way. Wait for me.

[Because Haruka can handle herself, but catching the audio feed means catching that Elissa took out Thor. Which would be a bad sign even if he did buy the whole contrition act.]

Then hurry it up. That's where I am going.

[She will wait outside the cargo bay, though, if that makes him feel better.]

Roger that.

[He kills the connection, but it won't be long before she hears him coming anyway. The roar of the repulsors is distinctive; in the narrow space of the ship, it's even more so.]

((I made a new log. EotW - Awaiting Judgement))

You two need another gun or can you handle her?

You want to show up, show up. More backup will not hurt anything, and might help, who knows?

[Haruka isn't about to tell someone else that they can't come growl at the second murderer in their midst.]

All right, I'll get someone to keep an eye on the perimeter. Don't kill her before I get there.

[There's a smirk on Haruka's end.]

I will see what I can do.

[Then the feed's off.]

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