Dissected (Chapter 2)
Clive hadn’t said much through the trial. He didn’t feel the need to interject much, as things had pretty easily unfolded for themselves. Would he say he was sorry for the now- deceased Noah? Of course, who wouldn’t be? Could he say the same for the late Goro Akechi? Absolutely not.
Anyone would have noticed, on the elevator out of the courtroom, that Clive had remained eerily unfazed. Stone-cold and expressionless, he merely waved silently to the rest of the group before parting ways, not even bothering to stick around and discuss. What had been done was done, and everyone had gotten what they’d deserved.
In the wake of it all, Clive had decided that the only better thing to do than sit around and contemplate all day, was to explore more for the island. An open gate and a trail had led to a museum, and a curiosity which couldn’t go ignored had led him inside.
The first exhibit in the hall was eerie, to say the least. Organs and dioramas that, after such a display earlier, had finally managed to make Clive’s skin crawl. Maybe this is where they’d gotten all that blood...
At least there was one thing in the room that wasn’t unsettling enough to make him turn and leave. “Seems I’m not the only one here....” He muses aloud, treading closer to his classmate. “Suki, was it? I think we’d only spoken briefly before, so...” He takes a while to observe a figure encased in glass, a human skeleton with red and blue veins spread out across it like branches and vines on the most unsettling of trees.
“Terrible, don’t you think? That we’re here to be pit against each other and we barely know one another’s names... Though... maybe in the end that’s for the best, I suppose.”
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