Taking Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

And a while after that strange, dark floor is accessed, after you've had time to look things over and get some idea of what's happening...well. There won't be any sort of official announcement to tell you to get downstairs, nor will there be a personal invitation for you to do so. Instead, the doors at the end of the corridor (were they there before? You find that you don't remember. It doesn't matter anymore, though-) slide open, as they always do, and the elevator ride to the courtroom is probably the first familiar thing that's happened all day. It's smooth and quick, though it seems to take a bit longer than it usually does. And when the doors open at the end of the line, the courtroom looks different. The dark, weirdly cylindrical room is largely the same in and of itself, but the usual twenty-seven podium circle is gone; instead, there's a smaller setup in the center of the room - ten podiums total, and you'll likely find the way your spots have been distributed to be very familiar indeed. Of further notice is the balcony - there's a structure that wasn't there before in view of the courtroom, situated high above, barred-in by a railing that'd probably be at about waist-height on your average person; there's no one up there just yet, however. There are so few of you now. It seems that today there are no speeches to give; maybe the Kingmaker is absent, maybe he just doesn' have anything to say. Either way, however, the implication in the fact that you're here at all is clear. For one last time, make the guilty take responsibility.

Comments

[garudynamic]

Yeah, though those are popular more for the drama then the challenges.

[He's having that realization Black did earlier- that people might have seen some of his more private moments]

[penduli]

Well, we're certainly not short on that, are we. [ haha...


urgh. ] ...if it's any consolation, at least we're probably famous? And everyone has their own fanclub, or something?

[ that's the worst consolation prize ]

[garudynamic]

...everyone wants to see people, and everyone wants to be seen. Shit.

[Normally that probably WOULD excite him, but he doesn't look too happy. More a little ill.]

[notjustawriter]

I didn't mind my name bein' out there, I'm a writer after all, but this...

[He just feels sick.]

[garudynamic]

Your next book is gonna be pretty intense, that's for sure.

[cherryblooded]

...Some things I've said in confidence don't need to be spread around.

[Mainly about his daughter.]

[garudynamic]

Y e a h.

[penduli]

[ don't worry he, too, is ill thinking about this. ]

...we don't know for sure, so let's set it aside for now and not get too caught up in it, okay? [ it's probably a good course of action and the less. stressful one. ]

[garudynamic]

Probably a good idea.

[amygdalae]

[MAKING THE WORST PAINED EXPRESSION HERE.]

I was in hiding before any of this, too.

[Or at least he assumes he was in hiding.]

[isafraid]

Don't think there's many that would care to see my face around.

[He's just a nobody, really.]