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[ooc: tw for body horror/decapitation. set after this. open to fourth walls given this happens the same night as the throne-room party.]

[Peter has no idea how to do this. He's still shaking, hunched in a corner, having tried to contact Bonnie only to get no response, because she's probably just passed out. It's late. He figures no matter what people want to know about this. They deserve to know. He would want to know if someone he cared about here died (ha).

He has seen dead people before. He held his Uncle Ben in his hands while he died. He was there when Captain Stacy took his final breaths, but there is something else- There is something different about stumbling on someone's head detached from their body on the floor after the action is all done in the silence when he only expects to stumble on nothing. It's different to then realize he recognizes who they are, and now he's hunched over his network device, stuck to a corner of his own room.]

If you know Faith, I found her. She died. I'm sorry. Her

She's Her body and head

She's

Her body is in my room right now. I don't know what happened. I mean she was murdered but I don't know how or who. I just found her. Also I didn't clean stuff up down there but there's blood and stuff. [stuff being his own vomit. he still feels sick.]

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[ Steve should have been checking in before this, but he's stuck not knowing how much he should be getting involved in anyone else's life around here, how much he should be playing the hero when he set his shield aside. It's a difficult line to try and balance on. ]

Of course. And I'm sorry for how this all turned out.

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[Peter has no idea of the balance that Steve has been trying to achieve or the reasons for it, but if he did, he'd think it's only understandable for everyone to stumble sometimes. It's okay. No one can be wholly put together always. No one can do it all on their own.]

I'm sorry too. Looks like a lot of people died. You'd think parties wouldn't be so dangerous, but there are a lot of new people and a lot of mirrors running around.

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[ It's true, no one can manage all of those things alone, but that won't stop Steve from stubbornly trying to anyway. It's in his nature. ]

I think the main issue is the Mirrors. With the sheer amount of people here, it's impossible to keep track of them. And a lot of them have vendettas.

[ Wouldn't it be nice if Steve could know a Mirror just by looking at them? But even then, he can't just assume all of them are murderous.

A lot of them are, though. ]

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Makes sense. I talked to a couple creepy ones at the last mirror event where we could see in. My own mirror's just a lazy douchebag.

But I talked to some who clearly wanted to ruin the lives on this side.

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From what I've heard, mine is completely loyal to the Queen, so he's only going to target us if she orders him to. But not all of them follow those rules, and I'm sure a lot of them have been waiting for this chance for a long time.

At least Faith will be able to tell us who did this to her once she's back.

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Mine's a waste of space so I never have to worry about him. I wonder if the Queen would have a reason to kill Faith. I don't think Faith was the only one to die there. There was a lot of blood. I didn't see another body though.

Yeah. What do we do when we find that out?

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I get the feeling it was some Mirror carrying out a vendetta, rather than anything to do with the Queen. I don't think she would target someone specifically like that, but I'm just guessing.

We make sure we're ready the next time that the Mirrors are let loose on this side.

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Makes sense to me.

We're ready next time. We fight them. I'll be ready next time.

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Right, and remember, you don't have to do it alone.