Who Will Escape?

Onto The Next

"Do we say anything?" Alexis whispers. They're descending the stairs.

"I'm not sure..."

They enter the foyer.

Tamaya lies in the center of the room, dead as a doornail. Everyone else stands around her body in various states of shock-Shangag's got his head in his hands, Kyler looks about ready to faint.

"Guys!" Nyadhol screams, pain in her voice, choking on her own terrible announcement.
"Tamaya died!"

"It was exactly like what happened with Trey, when he died." explains Shangag, his mind trying its best to process the death he just witnessed.
"She choked."

"But longer than I did," Trey adds on.

Daniel's confused.
Alexis and Alec were the ones voted into the challenge. Not Tamaya. She was "safe". Nothing was supposed to happen to her.

He points at the gem in Alexis's hands.
"You guys got the gem."

Daniel
That's a relief. The gem is the only thing that makes any sense about this entire scenario.

"What happened?" squeals Kyler.

"Wait, what happened upstairs with the perverse games?" asks Devon.
"What did you guys do?"

Alec's eyes dart around the room.
"There were mannequins." His voice breaks a little.
"We had to do things that I don't..."

"Yeah." Alexis jumps in.
"It was perverted. So."

Shangag is the first to put the pieces together.
"No! Look!" He points.
"They got the gem, so someone else had to die!"

"It's because of y'all."

Octavia stands up from where she's sitting.
"Y'all are the reason she's dead, aren't y'all?"

Alec and Alexis don't say anything to the Mobster. Then everyone understands.

They killed Tamaya.

"You guys killed my bitch?" Nyadhol asks, wiping away her tears in shock.

"Fine. Yes. We killed Tamaya." Alexis pipes up.

"Someone had to go. We had to write someone's name down in a death journal and they would die next." The Novelist looks at everyone that is staring at him and Alexis.
"Tamaya has caused drama. She's came after so many people. And I bet you she's one of the people that voted Kai in to his death. So yes. When I was given the power to kill someone. I chose Tamaya." Alec's words surprise everyone. No one says a word back to him or to the Fixer.

"Like we have been saying this entire night. We have to do what we gotta do."

Alexis walks over to the gem map and places it in the next slot. With that a new slot opens and she examines what it is. A snowflake.

Shangag and Trey pick up Tamaya's dead body and Thomas escorts them to a room where they can lay her down. They walk out and Bethany simply scoffs and crosses her arms.

Bethany
Bye girl. Next time. Don't come for people that do more than you did...