Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Abduction, Part 6

September 14

Blackgate High School

2:00 AM

Sky Amaya

I was the last out of us to arrive back at the high school after we left the courthouse behind. Since I parked the farthest from the entrance, I had the longest walk out to the car. My long walk to the car turned into traffic problems that took me a while to overcome. Lily and Victoria were leaned up against the wall just outside the building, and I saw them lingering in the shadows beside the entrance. At first, neither one of them noticed me, so I dashed up to them while breathing heavily. "Sorry I'm late!" I cried out. 

"Don't worry about it," Victoria assured me with a shake of her head and a gentle smile. "It's fine. We already sent James ahead so that he could talk to Prosecutor Wood and Chrysalis for a little bit. We could tell that he was anxious, so we figured that we could at least give him the chance to see what they've been up to in the past few days."

"But now that you're here, we can go and check on them all," Lily told me. She took my hand in her own and began to drag me along behind her, though she was careful to not hurt me in the process. She immediately struck me as being more careful about those things than Felicity, and I don't think I could ever say how thankful I was that she wasn't as eager or excitable as my sister could be. 

Victoria followed us as a small giggle left her lips. Lily took us into the gymnasium area that we had found Yuri, James, and Anton in the day before, and I glanced across the room as I saw the trio of the day sitting together. Prosecutor Wood was in the middle, and she was talking with James. She seemed oddly anxious, and James had an expression of worry plastered on his face. Chrysalis was leaned against Prosecutor Wood's shoulder, and she looked as if she was on the verge of falling asleep. 

Ironically though, Chrysalis was the first one to notice us, and she perked up as soon as she saw that we had entered the room. She poked at Prosecutor Wood to get the other girl's attention, and both Prosecutor Wood and James turned to face us as soon as they realized what had gotten Chrysalis so distracted. 

"It's nice to see you three are finally here," Chrysalis remarked. I could see that her eyes were somewhat droopy, but she still did her best to seem as if she was awake enough to continue talking to us. "We heard that you'd be coming, but we weren't sure of how long it would be until after you were finished with the trial. It wasn't as if we had much of a way of checking how much progress you had made, but... It's fine. Whatever. Why don't you just go on and ask us whatever you had on your minds?"

"We were just wondering what happened with you to make you leave the scene of the crime after the murder took place," I said at first before pausing. "Well, maybe you left beforehand... I don't know. The point is that you were planning on hanging out here to meet with a small group of others, but you never wound up doing that because you left the school early. Could you tell us about why?"

Chrysalis looked over at Prosecutor Wood, and the two both looked concerned for a moment. Chrysalis shook her head before dropping her gaze to her lap. "I don't know what happened, to be honest," she confessed. "I came to pick up Yuri, but she wound up taking a while. I didn't know that she was supposed to be staying after classes for longer than expected, so I decided to come and see what was going on with her here."

"I don't know what happened either," Prosecutor Wood commented with a shrug. Something about her seemed different than usual, but I couldn't quite put a finger on what it was. She seemed a bit more sure of herself. Perhaps it was because she wasn't involved with a trial. I had only ever seen her in the courtroom, so maybe she was different when stepping outside of the courthouse. There was less to be anxious about when she wasn't focused on a case, after all.