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((Belladonna is accusing Haku))

After her call for evidence went unheeded, Belladonna didn't feel the need to step down from her seat, instead using it more as something to do while everyone accused everyone else and the rest defended herself. She was about to speak up when the lights went out for a second time. When she gasped, managing to stifle a scream, the lights flicked back on to reveal a student mangled by what appeared to be a series of deep and very painful looking cuts. Now things were serious. This was no longer a game, but a dangerous problem that had to be solved before someone else was hurt.

And someone was accusing HER? How could this day get any worse? (Actually, she'd rather not consider that....) While trying her best to keep her temper, Belladonna turned slightly in her elevated position and looked down upon the watery ghost.

"Just because I told him it was awful he was being misogynistic does not correlate with me wanting him hurt. I truly hope he's alright." She replied, doing her best to keep the ice (and anger) from her voice. "Besides the fact that I haven't moved from my seat," She paused to lean over towards the ghost, the edge of her hooped skirt brushed the shoulder of Vic, "Someone would have felt me move past them. My skirts are too big to go undetected."

She did turn with a sad grimace to the boy the others were accusing. He was holding a book and she also accepted that paper rarely held the blood of it victim. "We can only assume by your testimony that you have neither reflex or good night vision. We can't prove that without turning out the lights and risking another attack, which is something we aren't foolish enough to do. So just because you say it, you can't prove it." She said calmly to Haku, keeping her voice neutral.

((Cooper is feeling suspicious about Salali. Not quite ready to accuse her yet.))

Cooper watched the accusations and speculations fly, as all the bones had been successfully gathered up. He was left with nothing to do but fidget some more and throw nervous glances around the car.

And then the lights went out.

And when they came back up, there was a second victim. This time, with a lot of thin, angry looking cuts. Cooper nearly fled back into his hoodie, but hiding didn't seem like it was going to help him. If whoever was doing this could explode a skeleton, and cut a reaper to shreds all in the blink of a light, he or she could probably do something to him inside the hoodie. This made for one unhappy little Sandworm.

This looked like the work of someone seriously unhinged. Cooper glanced over to where Breic was comforting the babbling Salali. She sure sounded like she was unhinged...

"Or whoever's watchin' saw that 'un-" Puck flicked his fingers at Haku - "saw 'e had a book an'... bam!" He snapped his fingers. "Perfect 'un to pin it all on. Could be bein' played up for fools, all of us. 'Less he used that big ol' book to smack 'part that skelly..."

The poltergeist chuckled at Breic, though, a big grin on his face. "Might be that's what a 'tacker might say. Special deal - you sit w'me, then I won't 'tack ya... help me lie, keep you safe. Clever, clever."

((Kashiyoru is not yet placing blame on anyone yet.))

Kashi kept his eyes locked on Jack as he defended himself. What he said made sence to Kashi. He hadn't heard any sounds from beside him, and he'd certainly of noticed his prey trying to move away from him. His oddly cheerful mood was somewhat dampened when Jack pointed out his lack of actual claws.

"It's too bad. I like a man who can leave his mark." He smirked. But his attention was ripped away when Nuk spoke up, and rather loudly at that.

"Must you make such a scene?" He slowly regained his grin "Why not go back to being a good puppy, and sit there quietly, eh Cranny?" Kashi quietly went back to petting one of his tails, while another twitched, waiting for a reason to do anything to remind others it was there.

'This idiot it making it difficult to shower this male with my full attention.' He slowly eyed Jack, before glancing around the cart. He really should attempt to discover the attacker at fault. But that would also draw his attention from his bigger prey. He faught the urge to growl in frustration. Instead he turned his gaze back onto Jack, all the while his grin never once faulted.

Balumf accepted the book quietly and inspected it.
It was certainly heavy and it FELT like paper, but what if it was a FEAR ability? To make it devastating? Who knew what Inugami coudl REALLY do?! she hadn't heard anything about them.

Someone mentioned pairing up, and Balumf raised her head from her inspection.
"That is good plan. That way we know who moves and who doesn't."
She patted the seat next to her.
"Who wishes to pair with me?"
She eyed Vic hopefully- the pirate ghost seemed nice and... wet. And her skin felt so Dry...
Why didn't the train have an aquarium?! She would have felt safer in the water. On land she just felt so... different!

Puck had said something interesting, something that had actually been playing in the back of her mind for a while.
What if the culprit was trying to frame Haku? if Haku was the attacker, wouldn't it be beneficial to not harm his partner?
But maybe when attacking he would be temporarily insane and not reasonable. A mad dog.

She handed the book back to Haku.
"I see nothing, but that doesn't mean that there is nothing. We only have your word on your abilities. And how do we know that your quietness is only concealing a... Mad Dog?"

Puck's smile only got wider, though that didn't seem possible. "Indeed, indeed! Clever, clever! Could be anybody! Every ghoul for himself! No fear!"

Salali followed Breic's explanation with her eyes under knitted brows. A small, but serious frown was on her compressed lips as she watched...perhaps she had missed the sarcasm. Or perhaps not. "It is everyone? Or anyone? O one, o none, o no one, o you..." She mumbled, reciting the last bit from a poem she remembered about digging. She felt like they were digging now, too. Just digging, without a direction or destination. "We dig...we dig...where are we going? No progress...will we get there? We dig..."

She then immediately moved her gaze between Puck and Kashi and anyone else who was showing favorable teeth. "Not the time for smiles! It's dark...we have no matches, so how do you have light? How can you...?" Well, one slightly coherant sentence was better than nothing it seemed. She twisted her fingers in her hands, her jitters causing her to bounce a little in her seat again.