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[ If Alex is the only murder, that'll be fine, he can think.

Alex's eyebrows furrow, a little. ] He...taught you how to waltz? [ He can't picture that. Ogata? It seems too gentle, too soft. And yet... ] I just thought he was a...jerk who liked to troll people. I'm... I don't know. I don't know what to think of 'im.

[hxppythxughts]

[As Alex says a jerk who liked to troll people, Sayori averts her gaze with a too-innocent veneer in her eyes. She doesn't say it out loud, but it's a very clear "he's definitely that too."

Anyway.] ...he showed me the poem he wrote. And...

[The troubled press of her lips sobers her expression.] He said some personal stuff I shouldn't really say. But I think he's lonely. Like— really lonely, and it seems like it's been that way forever? And... [Man, she really used up all her words on that poem.] Y'know. Being alone like that can really mess you up.

[rockymountaindie]

[ There's a twinge in Alex's gut. He sits with that, lonely. It doesn't make him regret what he'd said, any more than he regrets how he acted at all with the Raven Queen's eye. But it puts some things in perspective.

And truly, Alex hates that eye-opening feeling. But he wouldn't be him, if he ignored it. ]

You know. You... You're probably on to something there, I ...I think he killed me for calling him needy. [ There's more to it, of course, the confrontation, the lack of fear. Ogata was just a guy, something Alex could do something about. What was he to be afraid of? He stumbles over that, a little withdrawn. ] Don't think the fucker even realizes how much he contacts me.