closed mingle: welcome to amity island.

[highflights]

[ Kara has cleared out a landing site just outside the area of the ship Mimi was camped in. Each member of the party has been given a rough map marking the more thickly forested areas, contours marked for hills, and an arrow in the water indicating the general direction back to the underwater base. There are Xs for where the old shipwreck emerges through the green, but only those visible from the air, if you're on foot you're on your own. In Kon's handwriting, the maps are all labelled Amity Island in block letters. The wildlife is friendly unless provoked; we can't vouch for the plants. ]

[ The body itself is in a sturdy wood coffin resting on a bed of freshly dug earth, the lid can be easily pushed off. Time to get cracking. ]

[ ooc info about the island can be found here and here. any questions should be directed to the mods at the second link. ]

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[despairing_hope]

[Why? That in itself was a difficult question he didn't exactly have an answer for. Why was it that he liked spending time with Hinata? He felt something was special about him, he definitely could sense a great hope within the other boy. And he felt a calm serenity when around him. Even finding out he was a reserve course student didn't change those things. He had thought they would have.

Of course... he knew there was more, but he was never going to share that.

What could he say? He lacked the words.]

And yet, despite that, you have always been good at these things. You have always solved the cases. You have always been reliable. Being near you is... relaxing.

[hopefragment]

...

[I had help. From Nanami, and from you.

Hajime's never felt like he's solved a case on his own. It was always a group effort with the rest of his classmates. Sometimes it felt like a struggle to try to see all the ways everything fit together, how they could use the evidence to find the truth. Even when they didn't want to learn the truth, they all kept pushing forward...

He exhales through his nose and jams his hands into his pockets, closing his eyes as if that might somehow help him figure out what to do here. Nagito had been so kind to him when they met; it had been hard to believe that he was capable of as much malice as he'd proven himself to be. Maybe there were still pieces of that person, the little things Hajime had glimpsed through their conversations that had seemed like small truths among all the lies.

He can't be sure of anything where Nagito is concerned. But he does know that... he's scared of what Nagito might do if he leaves him alone.

He opens his eyes.]

...Fine. Where do you think we should start?

[despairing_hope]

[ Oh! He can stay! If he were a dog he would be wagging his tail. ]

I wasn't really sure since the body was disturbed it's hard to really use that as a starting point. But getting to know the island is definitely a good first step. Maybe even wandering around aimlessly, something might come up. A lucky encounter or something.

[ Of course he had already found some foot prints and other things. ]

Have you been to the campsite yet? There's also some kind of spaceship.