Adjusting to a world that isn't yours

Endless words, and clever lies

Taco huffed, stepping out of the lab after a hard day of manual labor with TestTube. Of course, Taco wasn't weak, she could handle a little construction, but Gods was it boring, and time consuming. Annoying, really. Though, now that she was out of the lab, she had another problem that came up today, making itself incredibly obvious. She was a prime suspect in invading MePhone's privacy. Of course, after everything that had happened in the past, and with how shady she was, she'd blame herself too, if she were guilty! Which, well...

But that wasn't the point! She was being accused, and the others were suspicious of her, and she wasn't going to stand by that. So she had to try to do something to prove her innocence. She'd have to do something to make sure she wasn't making herself look any more suspicious, while also trying to possibly throw the shade onto someone else, to lessen the eyes on her. This would be hard, but she had a good reason... As twisted as it was.

She returned to the hotel, glancing over to the three on the couch, 4S actually having joined the gaming session for once. She didn't bother to look at the other two, opting to head to her own room. She had a scheme to set up.

...

"Who do you think, at this hotel, would have it out for you." 4S slammed his hands down on the table, MePhone flinching back a little, annoyed at his brother's approach.

"Am I the one being interrogated here?? That's what this feels like." He let out, a bit sheepish as the two sat at the kitchen table.

"I'm just trying to help get to the bottom of this. Who in this hotel, seems like someone who would want to wrong you, or use the information from those letters against you." His approach of keeping this on the downlow had not been working out in the day he spent after, not getting any leads, had not been going so well, so he was going to try to be open about his plans with MePhone, in his own way.

"... I don't want to say Taco, but... She's pretty much the only one I can think of. Any other object that I can think of that doesn't like me had no idea this box even existed, or even about the cave." MePhone sighed out, crossing his arms over the table. "The objects that DO know about the cave, or have been in there, are all unlikely... Um, why are you asking me this stuff anyways?"

"This is something we need to get to the bottom of. Someone could be scheming against you." MePhone frowned at that idea, knowing just what his brother was insinuating.

"I- I don't know why anyone here would even... want to do something like that, after everything." MePhone quickly dismissed the idea, rolling his eyes. He didn't want another reason to be paranoid.

"What about that vial? Would she be a likely suspect?"

"TestTube? No, she wouldn't." MePhone gaze fell down to the table, clearly recalling the letter incident, his expression souring just a bit. He wasn't mad at her, he never really was, of course, but the experience was still very unfavorable to think about.

"Hm. so Taco is currently our only... real suspect then."

"I heard it's rude to be talking about someone behind their back." A voice called out, MePhone jolting, and 4S swinging around, to see Taco leaning in the entryway to the kitchen.

"You are not included in this conversation. Scram." 4S frowned at the smaller individual, who just let out a huff.

"I just don't see why I'm the 'clear suspect' here when say, someone could have stumbled across the box on their own?"

"You realize you're just making yourself more suspicious? What do you want, anyways." 4S lowered his shades a bit, to let Taco know he had narrowed his eyes. She would just roll hers, and move over to the table, taking a seat to insert herself in the conversation.