[For Steerpike] Till the least of the last is dust...

[77th_emo_earl]

It's been some days since the poster went up in the main room, asking for any information on the whereabouts of Titus Groan, and some might think the trail is going cold. But the only thing going cold is the weather.

At some distance from the house, well into the woods, well past the Stone Table, Steerpike might find something disturbing: a lump with longish brown hair, protruding from the deep snow. There might be a foot sticking from the drift several feet away.

It's as disturbing as it sounds, and it's likely going to take a while to find the rest...

Title taken from the Schoolmasters' verse, aka the lyrics for the main title theme for the BBC miniseries. Primarily for Steerpike, but given the condition that the body is going to be in, it's likely to turn into a limited mingler...

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[eyeofjustice.livejournal.com]

Misa looks at the bone in the bag, or the better word could be, 'can barely stand to look at it'. If only he'd listen... this would have never happened. Then Hisoka gives her the option to leave, she asks:

"Have I done enough to help, Hisoka?"

[in-summer-leaf.livejournal.com]

"Yes, Misa. You've done a great deal. I owe you, and we all owe you. Come on, let's go back."

He has to return to the barn anyway, and get a cart or a wagon or something. The rest of Titus is probably around here somewhere, and Hisoka thinks it would be a good idea for the searchers to have a vehicle in which to haul all of him back in one trip, if possible.

And he doesn't have time right now to remember combing through that tangled heap of broken and blasted metal that had been the bridge of the Mary Rose, his first ship in his second life, for his dead crewmates. Or, for that matter...the cargo hold of the Queen Camilla, in his first life. There is too much work to be done.

He gives the forest a quick glance all around...keeping in mind those toothmarks, which his is pretty sure are wolf. His shotgun is already unslung and loaded, and carrying it in one hand, he takes Misa's other hand (again, if she allows), and turns for the shortest route back to the house.

[Nice thread, both of you! @_@ FTB after your next posts?--if either of you wants to post again.]

[eyeofjustice.livejournal.com]

On the way back, Misa may start to cry.

Titus didn't have to suffer for that... monster. He didn't.

FTB. I wonder how is the agency going to break the news out with everyone in the mansion...

[in-summer-leaf.livejournal.com]

[Good question!]