video.

[ex_question191]

Oh, my god.

[ stiles' voice has the kind of self-contained excitement in it that someone might get upon being given a quad bike for their fourteenth birthday. or, you know, a pony. there's that same kind of delighted anticipation of fun times ahead. ]

You guys will not believe what I found.

[ his voice is pitchy and he's in close up in the dim light, eyes wide and too-dark in his pale face, before he turns to film... well. ]

An actual freaking body!

[ which is all the warning given for the squeamish before it's on camera. the body is very clearly human, even if all its distinguishing features have been removed. its pieces join unnaturally together, arm sewn to shoulder to torso to leg, and the whole thing hangs suspended from several strings, like a puppet. ]

[ stiles fumbles the camera back to himself. he swallows. it's cool, but also, you know, he's kind of creeped himself out already just wondering if the killer might still be around. but that's not exactly a thought he's about to put voice to. ]

I'm about fifteen minutes heading left from the Shuttle Bay, I think, if someone wants to come cut it down.


(( as per dex and bri's excellent adventure. eta action for investigators. ))

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[theshabbiestofmen]

It's-- what, it doesn't bother you at all? Dismembered like that?

[ex_question191]

I've seen worse.

[theshabbiestofmen]

[That silences him for a moment.]

Still. That's no reason for you to have to see these sorts of things.

[ex_question191]

Thanks, Remus. But this is just how my life goes.

[theshabbiestofmen]

It shouldn't be.

[But he knows deflection when he hears it. Remus sighs.]

Well. You have my number if you need anything. How on earth did you find the body in the first place?

[ex_question191]

Just kind of found it. I was on my way back to my rooms after a Shuttlebay shift, I thought maybe I could take a shortcut to come out near the fourteenth floor, and bam: crime scene.

[theshabbiestofmen]

I suppose let that be a lesson to not take shortcuts.

[A beat. It's repetition, but:]

Are you sure you're all right?

[ex_question191]

[ there's a hesitation, just a slight one, and then stiles just gives a short laugh. ]

Yeah, I'm the bomb-diggety. It's fine, Remus, don't start worrying about me or something dumb like that.

[theshabbiestofmen]

Too late. I'm naturally fussy. I'm afraid you're stuck with it.

[ex_question191]

I uh, I guess I'll just have to get used to it.